The thing I especially like about The Toll is that we get an in-depth look at the political side of the scythedom and the laws that keep the system functioning.

“It leaves you satisfied, but equally wanting more… I’m telling you now, you’re in for a ride.”

I’m telling you now, you’re in for a ride. He does things that genuinely made me gasp and want to throw the book across the room. Scythe Goddard, an evil dictator-like leader with awful intentions, has free reign over the world, and it quickly becomes carnage. It leaves you satisfied, but equally wanting more.Īs well as introducing new characters and exploring familiar ones in more depth, the book explores what happens when a world so intricately kept together by the Thunderhead (which, after the second book, we know a lot about) begins to crumble, and everything collapses into utter mayhem. What happened to the isle of Endura? Where are Citra and Rowan? What’s happened to everyone else? The Toll leaves no questions unanswered, and does a great job of making all the ends meet from the two previous books. Not only does this book pick right up from where the previous one left off, but it does it in such a way that has you gripped right from the start. Why The Toll is the Perfect End to the Series (Am I being literal there? I might well be. As this pulse-racing series concludes, The Toll really does go out with a bang. I finished the book a couple of weeks ago but I wanted to wait until release day to publish my review, which has been so difficult! But now the time has come: today, 7th November 2019, is the day The Toll is published in the UK, and am I beyond excited for everyone to read this masterpiece of a book. Set in a dystopian world where overpopulation is controlled by scythes, people who are chosen to kill seemingly at random, the books follow teenagers Citra and Rowan as they are both ordained as scythes and go on to lead very different lives. The Toll is the third book in Shusterman’s Arc of a Scythe series. So when I got an early copy of The Toll in the post, I almost cried. Ever since I read Unwind as a teenager, and then discovered Challenger Deep which quickly became my favourite book ever, Shusterman has been right at the top of my auto-buy authors list. Neal Shusterman has been my favourite author for a long time now. Have you read my reviews of the first two books in the series? If not, here they are: Scythe | Thunderhead

In this pulse-pounding conclusion to New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman’s Arc of a Scythe trilogy, constitutions are tested and old friends are brought back from the dead. It’s been three years since Rowan and Citra disappeared since Scythe Goddard came into power since the Thunderhead closed itself off to everyone but Grayson Tolliver.

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