Scythe : The global smash-hit YA speculative-thriller series that’s ‘A true successor to The Hunger Games’

Author: Neal Shusterman

Science fiction (Children's / Teenage)

Published on 1 February 2018 by Walker Books Ltd in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Arc of a Scythe' series.

Paperback | 416 pages
130 x 196 x 32mm | 278g

'A true successor to The Hunger Games' Maggie Stiefvater, bestselling author of Shiver and The Raven Boys.

A Time Magazine Best YA Book of All Time In the not-too-distant future, humans have cured hunger, disease, war, crime – even death. Now scythes are the only ones who can end a life – and they are commanded to do so to keep the size of the population under control.

Citra and Rowan are both chosen to be apprentices to a scythe – something neither of them wants. Forced together, they must perfect the skill of taking a life, competing against each other for just one scythe position. But then it becomes clear that the winning apprentice's first task will be to kill the loser . . .

The first book in the globally bestselling, award-winning series for fans of Susanne Collins, Pierce Brown and Marie Lu.