Waiting on Wednesday (56) Scythe

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Breaking the Spine to highlight upcoming releases we're excited about.

This week, I want to share...

Title: Scythe

Author: Neal Shusterman

Pages: 448

Publisher: Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers

Release Date: November 22, 2016

In a world where disease has been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed (“gleaned”) by professional reapers (“scythes”). Citra and Rowan are teenagers who have been selected to be scythe’s apprentices, and—despite wanting nothing to do with the vocation—they must learn the art of killing and come to understand the necessity of what they do.

Only one of them will be chosen as a scythe’s apprentice. And when it becomes clear that the winning apprentice’s first task will be to glean the loser, Citra and Rowan are pitted against one another in a fight for their lives.

So it is my goal to find some books everyone may not know about.  These next few weeks I'll be looking through what I got at ALA and sharing things I hadn't heard of or that aren't surrounded by a ton of hype.  But they still look really good.

And this one looks awesome!