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H2O

By Virginia Bergin

Sourcebooks, Inc.

Copyright © 2014 Virginia Bergin
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-4926-0655-0
CHAPTER 1

There's really no point going on about how things used to be. For one, I can't stand to think about it - even though I do, a lot, and it makes me want to throw up with sadness. For two, it kind of doesn't matter, does it? It's over. And for three, I'm not writing this because of how things used to be - I'm writing this because of what happened. So I'll start right there. This is what happened:

I was sitting in a hot tub in my underwear kissing Caspar McCloud.

Ha! That also sounds like a great beginning, maybe from some kind of kiss-fest romance, or maybe Caspar would turn out to be a sexy vampire. But the truth is - and this is the one thing I will do, for sure. I will try to tell the truth, even if it hurts me to say it, even if it shocks you to hear it (and I doubt it will, because if you're reading this you've probably had about a gazillion shocks already) - the truth is, it wouldn't be right to pretend that kissing in a hot tub was the kind of thing I usually did on a Saturday night, because it wasn't.

It soooooooooooooooooooooo wasn't. Don't get me wrong: I'd kissed boys before (two); I'd been to parties before (like, since I was five years old or something). I'd even sat in that hot tub in my underwear before (with Lee - that's Lee as in Leonie, my best friend). But that night, that party ... it was the best, the most amazing - scarily amazing - time I had ever had in my life up until that point. (Not difficult.)

That night - that one, glorious, hot Saturday night - I was becoming a new me, one who was going to have a boyfriend named Caspar and do stuff like kiss in hot tubs at wild parties all the time. Yes, from the nagging jaws of the THEY, I was about to snatch complete, amazing greatness and total brilliance. And a boyfriend.

What can I say? It happened. It really happened! Zak, who lived in this massively cool, rambling old farmhouse, and whose parents were so laid-back you could basically do whatever you liked, pulled the speakers outside the barn where we - that's me and all my lovely friends (exception to be named shortly) - had been hanging out drinking LETHAL cider punch, and a bunch of us stripped down - to our underwear - and climbed into their hot tub.

We sort of danced where we sat, doing so-slick-yeah-check-it mini arm moves. It was totally hilarious, but it was also totally cramped ... until people started getting out again, moaning that the hot tub was too hot.

It was like some dreadful slow-motion countdown. With every person that got out, the water in that tub got stiller and stiller. I kept wishing it was one of those Jacuzzi tubs with bubbles, but it wasn't; unless you kept trailing your hands around on the surface, you could see everything. So I sat there, casually fanning my hands around ... because across that pool of steaming water sat Caspar Swoon McCloud.

And in between us sat Saskia, who wasn't fanning her hands about at all.

I do want to say that, even before that night, I wasn't really sure how much I actually liked Saskia. Not that I really knew her; she'd just started hanging out with us lately - even more lately than Caspar, who'd transferred to our school from the artsy hippie school, and was cool and wild and was in a band, and I'd once told Simon and my mom I was babysitting with Lee so I could go see Caspar's band play at a bar. And it was there, while Caspar was onstage at The George, doing his guitar thing, that he'd looked up and looked at me, and I'd looked at him and -
KA-CASPAR-BOOM! (PART ONE)
I realized I was in love with Caspar McCloud.

And this is too much information, isn't it? This is exactly what I said I wouldn't do, which is go on about how things were. I can't stand it. I'll shut up.

Back in the hot tub, Lee came to my rescue - or tried to. She came up and asked Saskia where the gin had gone (I told you that punch was lethal), and Saskia said she didn't know, and Lee said she thought she'd seen her with it, and Saskia said she hadn't had it, and Lee said maybe she could just come and help her look for it, and Saskia, who SO knew all along what Lee was trying to do, sighed this enormous bored sigh and stood up and climbed out of the tub with her chest practically in Caspar's face and then turned to me and said:

"Don't do anything I wouldn't do."

Then there really was nothing but a steaming hot tub of water between me and Caspar McCloud.

I was so shy. I nearly died of shyness. Also, I was slightly worried that I was going to cook to death or perish from an exploding bladder because I really, really needed to pee. I tried not to think about that, and it wasn't difficult because I was in a state of pre-kiss terror. For sure, any second now, there was going to be a kiss. There HAD to be a kiss.

"Hey, Rubybaby," said Caspar.

That's what he called me: Rubybaby. From the lips of anyone other than a divine being, it would have sounded cringe making and vomit worthy. From the lips of Caspar McCloud, it was utterly thrilling, as if an electric-lipped angel was kissing your soul. You know: hot and crackly.

"Hey, Caspar," I said, crackling.

"Why don't you swim on over here and keep me company?" he said.

I fixed him with this sultry model's stare (deadpan but pouty) that I'd been practicing at home. "Well, why don't you swim on over here?" I said.

It was the pre-kiss terror that made me say that. Basically I would have swum the Atlantic to get to him. Genius, Ruby. All I'd done was prolong the agony.

Slowly and sexily, we both scooted toward each other. Actually, I'm not sure if you can scoot slowly and sexily, but that's what it felt like. Also, it felt like it took an eternity, when really it was probably about ten seconds or something.

I looked into his eyes. Then I had to look away because it was just too, too intense. I could see all my friends, dancing and messing around like idiots, and behind them, this gorgeous red sunset blazing in the sky.

If I'd looked the other way, I would have seen something else. I would have seen clouds gobbling up the night. Maybe I would even have seen the clouds reflected in Caspar's eyes, but when I got a grip enough to stare into them again, I wasn't there to admire the view.

BOMF! I practically head-butted him as my lips mashed into his. His lips sort of opened a little, and I kind of pushed my tongue into his mouth. I thought that was what you were supposed to do, to show how passionate you felt or something. Like I said, I'd kissed boys before, and that's what we had done. It had been fairly disgusting. Kissing Caspar like that wasn't disgusting; it was scary, and it felt all wrong. Until ... I dunno. It just changed. One minute it was tongue- on-tongue combat, the next minute ...

If this was my blockbuster movie, we would pause here. It would be worth a whole scene all by itself, that kiss. We would linger on it for as long as possible. That kiss. Those kisses. Where does one kiss end and another begin? We just kind of melted into one another. I know that's the kind of stupid thing they say in cheesy romances, but we did. That's what happened! One minute I was my own clumsy me-being, freaking out, and I could feel this divine Caspar-being (was he freaking out too?), this Caspar-being's tongue, and the next minute ... I dunno ... it was total -
KA-CASPAR-BOOM! (PART TWO)
We didn't hear the yelling.

Fingers dug into my arm. My lips disconnected from Caspar's. I turned and -

"GET OUT!" Zak's dad shouted into my face, hauling me from the tub.

And that is when it all began.

CHAPTER 2

Like most people in the country, Zak's parents had gone to a barbecue that night. That's the thing about Britain, isn't it? First glimmer of sunshine, first sign of heat and everyone goes nuts, puts on their shorts, and has a barbecue. Doesn't matter if it looks like rain; we go out and we stay out until the first drop falls. No - it's worse than that: it actually has to start pouring before people give up and go inside. You add to that a holiday weekend - a whole extra day for sunburned people to lie around wishing they hadn't drunk ten zillion cans of beer and/or that they had cooked the hot dogs properly on the grill - and you get ... well, you get what happened, don't you?

Zak's parents weren't supposed to be coming home, so it was obvious right away that something was wrong because they were back, but it was even more obvious that something was wrong because they were freaking out. Normally, they wouldn't have cared at all about whatever it was we were doing. That was what was so cool about Zak's. OK, he had the hot tub and the barn and woods and fields and everything to hang out in, but the really cool thing was that his parents were completely chill. They smoked joints in front of us - hey, they even gave Zak weed! That's how chill they were.

Tonight, they were not relaxed. They basically went all Simon on us. They herded us all into the kitchen. The only thing that was un-Simon was that Zak's dad, Barnaby, kept swearing.

OK, so this is going to be the only other rule about this story: I will try to be honest; I will try to tell everything as it was, but I will not swear. My mom hated me swearing - the word God included, despite the fact that (1) she said it herself all the time (but denied it) and (2) as far as I can tell, everyone else on the planet says it all the time too. "There's no need for swearing," she'd tell me. Even with the whole world in the grip of a death-fest mega-crisis, she'd say, "Ruby, there is absolutely no need to swear."

Actually, there is a huge need for it in this story, and a lot of swearing did happen, but out of respect for my mom, I will not write those words. If, like me, you curse all the time anyway, you can go ahead and add your own swear words, but I hope you'll understand why I can't.

I'll write something beautiful instead. I'll write "[??]." For my mom.

"Oh [??]! Oh [??]! Oh [??]!" Barnaby kept going.

(The thing is, Zak's parents were always into some pagan-y religious thing or another, so it's possible that Barnaby really was calling on some specific god and wasn't just generally ranting.)

He locked the kitchen door.

"You're frightening them," said Zak's mom, Sarah, but Barnaby wasn't listening. He closed every window in the kitchen, and when he'd finished doing that, he started closing all the other windows.

You could hear him, banging around all over the house.

We weren't frightened at all. It was a little weird, but the hardest thing was not to get the giggles - although in my case I had nothing to laugh about, now there wasn't even any water to cover me. I did my best with dish towels. All our stuff, everyone's stuff, was in the barn.

"Mom, what's going on?" said Zak.

"We're not really sure," said Sarah. "Someone Barnaby knows called him and - "

Thump, thump, thump - bang! - thump, thump, thump, went Barnaby upstairs.

"Mom?" said Zak.

Bang! Thump, thump, thump. Barnaby came back down the stairs.

"You'd better ask your dad," said Sarah.

See now, that was kind of weird, wasn't it? Zak didn't normally call his mom "Mom"; Sarah didn't normally call Barnaby "your dad." If I didn't know Zak was practically immune to a whole lot of stuff that really bothered other people - like being embarrassed by your parents - I would have thought he was freaking out too. But his parents did crazy stuff all the time, and everyone knew they did, and usually no one laughed about it much because everyone understood what Zak had to deal with ... and also because Sarah and Barnaby were so kind to us.

This latest crazy thing, whatever it was, it was just bad timing, party-wise.

"Turn the radio on," Barnaby told Zak.

" Dad?" said Zak, but he turned it on anyway.

They didn't have a TV. Zak's parents didn't even have a digital radio; they had the old-fashioned crackly kind. Guess what was on?
Gardeners' Question Time.
They were discussing the best methods of tackling blight on roses.

Someone lost it and giggled. The giggling, it spread.

"This isn't right," said Barnaby quietly. "It should be the news."

I laughed too; it was impossible not to crack up with Mrs. Fotheringay-Flytrap describing the spots on her Rambling Rector rose ... but you want to know something weird? While I certainly wouldn't in a million years have thought, Oh no! This must mean the world as we know it is about to end, I kind of knew it wasn't right too. I didn't know what was supposed to be on, but I knew Gardeners' Question Time shouldn't have been. My mom LOVED that program and listened to it every Sunday - every Sunday. Not on a Saturday night. Never on a Saturday night. Not exactly scary, though, was it?

"Go and put your clothes on!" Sarah snapped at us.

I shivered. Caspar hugged me close. Leonie grabbed my hand.

Sarah never snapped at us.

"They're in the barn," said Saskia - in a really horrible way, like Sarah was stupid.

"Take ours, then," said Sarah. "Take whatever you want. Just get dressed."

Someone muttered something and headed for the kitchen door.

"Don't go outside," said Barnaby. Loudly, angrily. "You do NOT go outside."

We shuffled out of the room, the whole herd of us. On the stairs, someone cracked up, and we all had to make a mad dash for Zak's parents' bedroom so we could laugh our heads off in private, without hurting their feelings.

"What the [??] is up with your parents, man?" said Caspar.

"Got me, dude," said Zak. But he didn't sound OK; he still didn't sound OK. "C'mon," he said to Ronnie - my techie-est friend - and they went off to Zak's room.

The rest of us, we played dress-up with Zak's parents' clothes. It was so funny we forgot all the weirdness. Caspar pulled on a kaftan.

"Ohhm!" he said, doing this prayer thing with his hands.

I laughed so hard I almost -

"I need to pee," I remembered.

Lee followed me to the bathroom. I went first. I had to - I was bursting. Then Lee went while I surveyed myself in the mirror: [??]. So much for the model look. The big, baggy hippie dress was the least of it. My lips, which felt puffy-bruised and tingling from the kissing, looked kind of normal, but I had mascara zombie eyes, and where I'd had bright red lipstick on earlier, it looked like it had sort of smeared itself all over my chin; even my nose had gone Rudolf. No hope Sarah would have makeup remover, so I wet a piece of toilet paper, dabbed it in the soap, and wiped at my chin.

It wasn't really lipstick at all; it was my first ever full-blown kissing rash, and it stung. It really stung.

Nothing I could do about it, so I quickly scrubbed at the mascara disaster. Their soap - which wasn't like the soap we had at home but some organic, lentil-based, gray-green thing - was useless. It didn't even foam up, so that was it, then: I was half black-eyed zombie, half human cherry. Mortifying. Seriously mortifying.

"C'mon, get out!" shouted Caspar through the bathroom door. "Molly wants to puke!"

Great. I had to face him knowing what the face I was facing him with looked like. We opened the door, and Molly burst in, about to be sick. Under normal friendship circumstances, it would have been our duty to stay with her - but, honestly, just listening to her made my own stomach start to heave. It was bad enough looking like a mutant in front of Caspar - I definitely did not want him to witness me spewing my guts out, so I grabbed Lee's hand, and we went back downstairs.

We passed Zak's room on the way, where he and Ronnie were bickering for control of the computer. ("Why's it so slow?! Just click there," Zak was saying, trying to grab hold of the mouse. "Just click on it!")

In the kitchen, the radio people had moved on to discussing plants for dry, shady borders - which is a serious problem, apparently, and was not nearly as funny as the earlier part of the broadcast. Barnaby looked as if he was in a trance, staring out the kitchen window at ... OK, so now the party had been totally spoiled; it was raining. None of us had noticed. Why would we? We'd been too busy laughing our heads off.

"I think you all need to sober up," said Sarah, handing out glass after glass of water. "Leonie, can you please put the kettle on?"

"YesSarahYes," Lee slurred, glugging her water.

Barnaby grabbed his cell phone and started jabbing at it, trying different numbers.

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Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine is a thrilling page-turning novel following the main character Jess Brightwell. In this book you follow Jess and his family, friends, and enemies. Jess is part of a family book smuggling business. His whole goal is to steal books and sell them illegally. Jess is starting to grow and learn about his business, and is headed for the Great Library. The Great Library is the world superpower, holding all of the worlds knowledge and power. Will he smuggle books successfully? Will he get arrested, or worse? Dive into this book and find out!

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The Selection is an emotional, page turning book with many twists. America Singer is a 19 year old girl who was forced by her mom to go into The Selection.There are 35 girls trying to be the Queen of Illea and wife of Prince Maxon. But all the girls are getting on other nerves creating lots of drama in the castle eliminating many girls, not just that but rebels outside of the castle are getting out of control and creating big danger in the country and especially the castle. If you want to see who makes it and who does not read The Selection to find out.

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The One is an emotional, page turning book with many twists. America Singer is a 19 year old girl in The Selection who is fighting for a spot to be Wife and Queen of Illea. But Celeste Newman always gets in America's way. And America doesn't know if she likes Prince Maxon or Aspen better. Know what are you waiting for open up The One and see who America will choose, will she become Queen.

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The Inheritance Games trilogy is an action packed, riddle infused, page-turning, plot-twisted series that will keep you on edge the whole way through. When Avery Kylie Grambs is confused as to why she, a sixteen year old, homeless girl just trying to get past high school, would gain the billion dollar fortune of a dead entrepreneur, she has a problem with it. Why did she gain millions of dollars from a man she never met? While she tries to figure that out, she runs into other problems, too. As soon as the will was read, revealing her inheritance, she was immediately forced to live in his mansion, she receives death threats, assassination attempts on her life, and fame due to her mysterious mentioning in the billionaire's will. Moving into the mansion, she didn't know it would come with four mysterious men: the billionaires grandsons. All four are trampled with their own drama. Family drama. As Avery tries to swerve around that, she unveils life-changing information about her own. With the help of the four grandsons she is left with a final mystery to solve. What will she find out...and will she survive?

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Imagine a job where your forced to kill people. That is exactly what you need to do as a scythe. Scythe is an action packed book which will always keep you on the edge of your seat. Citra and Rowan are both training to be scythes but only one of them wins and the other one dies. They are both training very hard to try and become scythes. Who will win? Read the story Scythe to find out who wins and who gets killed.

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Scythe is a 2016 young-adult novel by Neal Shusterman and is the first in the Arc of a Scythe series. It is set in the far future, where death, disease, and unhappiness have been virtually eliminated thanks to advances in technology, and a benevolent artificial intelligence known as the Thunderhead peacefully governs a united Earth. The notable exception to the Thunderhead's rule is the Scythedom, a group of humans whose sole purpose is to replicate mortal death in order to keep the population growth in check.

A feature-film adaptation is in the works. Sera Gamble was writing the script. However, the new draft is being written by Gary Dauberman.

The book was an Honor Book for the Michael L. Printz Award in 2017 for teenage novels.

In the year 2042, effective immortality is discovered, allowing humans to reset their physical age while retaining their memory. In addition, advanced medical technology allows any injury, even fatal, to be repaired in a matter of days through nanites (or for more serious injuries, a hospital procedure known as revival). These revolutionary technologies allowed humanity to triumph over death and ended what is posthumously referred to as the Mortal Age.

In addition, a nigh-omnipotent artificial intelligence called the Thunderhead was also created around this time, described as the 'evolution of the cloud.' The Thunderhead was carefully designed with perfect and caring motives, wanting only to be a loving guardian of humanity. Although everyone was at first skeptical, every government eventually subsided to the Thunderhead, and all of Earth became united peacefully. Utilizing all of humanity's knowledge and power, the Thunderhead solves climate change, mental illness, and discrimination. It also decides that death is still required in order to give life meaning, but is unwilling to be the means of death, as it is unable and does not want to be viewed as a killer.

Instead, a group of humans creates the Scythedom, an order of individuals who are responsible for killing ("gleaning") others permanently, unable to be revived by law. The Thunderhead finds this to be the best approach. Scythes wear rings that grant immunity by transferring one's DNA to a databank. Once becoming Scythes, they must take the name of a historic figure (such as Scythe Faraday or Scythe Volta). Scythes are entirely separate from the Thunderhead's rule, not having to abide by any law beyond the Scythedom's.

250 years after the Mortal Age, a Scythe named after Michael Faraday visits a house in MidMerica. There, he interrupts a family's dinner and joins them, seemingly unaware of their fears that he has arrived to glean them. The teen daughter, Citra Terranova, stands up to him, which he finds amusing. He then reveals that he has not come to glean them, but instead their neighbor, citing statistics from the Mortal Age that support his choice of gleaning.

Some weeks later, a teenager named Rowan Damisch is attending high school when he encounters Scythe Faraday as well. Faraday requests help locating the front desk, and Rowan nervously agrees. Once at the front desk, Faraday reveals that he is here to glean the school's top quarterback, as underage people driving while being intoxicated caused many deaths. He requests that Rowan guide him to the office so that the staff can locate the quarterback and retrieve him. Rowan does so, but refuses to leave as Faraday gleans the boy with an electric shock, even as everyone else flees.

In the following weeks, Rowan is shunned at school, as rumors spread that Faraday was his uncle and that Rowan requested the gleaning out of jealousy. Rowan initially tries to deny it, but then decides to lean into it, stating that Faraday will glean anyone he wants. This causes everyone to fear him, and he is no longer bullied.

Citra and Rowan both receive tickets to a theater performance, and they both decide to attend out of curiosity. They meet each other and Scythe Faraday, who arranged it all. He informs them that they have both been chosen to become his apprentices, admiring Citra's integrity and Rowan's compassion. They both accept the knowledge that only one of them can be ordained as a scythe at the end of their training.

They both live with Scythe Faraday while apprenticing, as he trains them in various ways of killing. He also takes them on his gleanings, so they become accustomed to killing. When they are racked with guilt merely for being present, Faraday is pleased that they do not enjoy the act of taking life.

A few months later, Faraday takes his apprentices to the tri-annual regional conclave of Scythes, where various laws and traditional acts are performed for half of a day. It becomes apparent that the regional Scythedom is split between the Old Guard, who believe that gleaning is a sacred act that requires compassion and a respect for death, and the New Order, who believes that Scythes should take pleasure in gleaning. Spearheading the New Order movement is Scythe Goddard, a charismatic man infamous for his cruel mass gleanings. On the opposition is Scythe Curie, who is well known for hunting down all members of government in the early days of immortality so that they would not be able to try and regain power.

At the conclave, Citra and Rowan are subjected to one of three tests along with other apprentices - the first being knowledge. Citra is asked by Scythe Curie what her greatest wrongdoing was. Citra says that she tripped a schoolmate down a flight of stairs, which resulted in breaking her neck, and spending three days being revived. Curie deems her to be lying. Rowan intentionally fails his question so that he remains with Citra.

During the meetings, one of Goddard's junior scythes objects to Faraday having two apprentices, and it is suggested that the succeeding apprentice must glean the rejected one. Faraday heavily objects but is overruled by High Blade Xenocrates, leader of the MidMerican Scythedom.

Soon after the conclave, Faraday disappears. Citra and Rowan are contacted by Xenocrates, who informs them that Faraday committed suicide in order to free them of their apprenticeship. However, this fails as Citra and Rowan are separated and taken on as other Scythe's apprentices - Curie and Goddard, respectively.

Citra is trained by Curie, who lives at Falling Water. However, Citra is suspicious of the circumstances of Faraday's gleaning, believing that he would not kill himself. She eventually finds that he died by throwing himself under a train, but discovers that all witnesses were given immunity by a Scythe afterwards. She suspects Goddard but can't find any concrete evidence, and begins using camera footage of the time and location to find out what happened.

Meanwhile, Rowan's morals are put to the test as he experiences Goddard's lifestyle, who lives in a mansion he took and has extravagant parties with a posse of new order Scythes. Rowan initially hates him, but slowly falls under Goddard's charismatic spell and brutal training methods, becoming conflicted over his identity and recognizing the monstrous side he is trying to keep down. Goddard brings him on several mass gleanings, during which Rowan secretly helps people to escape. In one before he had been apprenticed, Goddard saved a particular child, confusing Rowan. Rowan develops a friendship with Scythe Volta, a scythe with old-guard morals who believes that Goddard is the future.

During one such party, High Blade Xenocrates is present. Goddard seems to have influence over him, especially when revealing the child. Rowan realizes that the child is Xenocrates', which goes against the law that Scythes are forbidden to have children. Goddard toys with Xenocrates, making him do ridiculous acts with the threat of killing his daughter. Rowan saves Xenocrates from drowning during one particular stunt. Goddard asks Xenocrates cryptically if fortune is smiling on Rowan as it has on Goddard, to which Xenocrates states that Citra will be rendered not an issue within the week.

At the next conclave, the test requires that each apprentice fight another. Citra and Rowan are paired for the spectacle, and Rowan tries to let Citra win. However, Citra refuses, and the two of them fight with the intention of losing. Eventually, Rowan decides that he needs to make Citra hate him, and so wins quickly by breaking Citra's neck violently. She is rushed out for revival and Rowan is disqualified. Once again they are tied for last.

Later, Citra is accused of murdering Faraday and she is hunted down. Curie brings her out of MidMerica to Amazonia (formerly the top of South America) as a refugee. Citra decides to follow a lead she had on Faraday's death and discovers that he is still alive and in hiding. He has not realized that they are still apprenticed but refuses to rejoin the Scythedom. Goddard, meanwhile, holds an impromptu party to celebrate Rowan's actions.

Meanwhile, Goddard takes Rowan and his posse to a cloister of a religious group of anti-Scythe cultists known as Tonists. He promises Rowan will glean someone, despite that breaking the law that apprentices cannot glean. Goddard dismisses the thought and saves a Tonist for Rowan to glean. Instead, Rowan beheads Goddard with his own sword, kills the other Scythes, and burns their bodies, which prevents revival. Rowan is suspected of these killings but there is not enough evidence to charge him.

At the next conclave, the apprentices are given a final test. They must kill a family member. Citra, who has been cleared of suspicion of murdering Faraday, struggles but succeeds in killing her younger brother Ben. She hears that Rowan shot his mother without any hesitation, meaning they both succeeded. Their victims are then revived. Both come before the conclave, where it is announced that Citra will become the newest Scythe. After choosing the name Anastasia, her first assignment is to glean Rowan.

However, after she is given her Scythe's ring she punches Rowan. This transfers his blood to her Scythe's ring, granting him immunity for a year. He escapes the conclave and finds Faraday, whom Citra has waiting for him with an untraceable car. They quickly drive away.

In the epilogue Scythe Anastasia remarks on the recent stories of Scythe Lucifer, a rogue Scythe who hunts down corrupt and unworthy Scythes and permanently ends them. It appears that Rowan has become Scythe Lucifer. She states that she hopes when they meet again, he will remember her as one of the good ones.

Main characters

Scythe Michael Faraday - Honorable Scythe Faraday trains two apprentices, Citra and Rowan. He is well respected by the Old Guard and is the former lover of Scythe Curie.

Rowan Damisch - One of the main Protagonists; trained by Scythe Faraday and later by Scythe Goddard as an apprentice. He becomes Scythe Lucifer, a vigilante gleaner of corrupt and 'unworthy' Scythes.

Citra Terranova - Another one of the main Protagonists; trained by Scythe Faraday and later Scythe Curie as an apprentice. She becomes Scythe Anastasia, named after the Russian princess Anastasia Romanov.

Scythe Marie Curie - aka The Grande Dame of Death, who tests the Apprentices at their first Conclave and later becomes Citra's mentor. The former lover of Scythe Faraday.

Scythe Robert Goddard - A Scythe known for mass gleanings and an opulent lifestyle. He is charismatic but narcissistic, and the New Order's effective leader.

Secondary characters

Scythe Volta - A Junior Scythe to Scythe Goddard. Secretly disgusted by the mass slaughters and his peers' behaviors, he self-gleans after guilt from genocidally killing Tonists and children.

Scythe Chomsky - A Junior Scythe who works with Scythe Goddard who specializes in flamethrowers. Brainless and a fan of mass gleanings.

Scythe Rand - Scythe who works with Scythe Goddard. Described as having pan-Asian features and a green robe. Extremely loyal to Goddard, she revels in death just as much as her mentor does.

Esme - The secret daughter of High Blade Xenocrates, whom Goddard uses to control Xenocrates.

High Blade Xenocrates - Holds the position of 'High Blade' of MidMerica. The father of Esme, which is used against him, because Scythes by law are forbidden to conceive and have children.

Tonists - Followers of a religious cult, they dislike Scythes and welcome the idea of 'natural death'. Sound is sacred to them. Often targets of Scythe attacks and mockery. They are said to believe in a thing called the Tone and an event known as the Great Resonance. Curie despises them, and Goddard makes a point to commit genocide against them.

Scythe has received the following accolades:

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Scythe is a 2016 young-adult novel by Neal Shusterman and is the first in the Arc of a Scythe series. It is set in the far future, where death, disease, and unhappiness have been virtually eliminated thanks to advances in technology, and a benevolent artificial intelligence known as the Thunderhead peacefully governs a united Earth.

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Gleanings by Neal Shusterman is a interesting confusing book that is the fourth book in the Ark of a Scythe series. Gleanings is stories from the older characters in the series. Gleanings tells the stories of Scythes before the year 2042, before Rowan and Citra. Their stories will make the other books in the series make sense if one did not already understand it. Read Gleanings to understand the history of past Scythes and stories that connect to main characters.

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Allies by Alan Gratz is a sad, heart-breaking, and dreadful book. This book is about a young man named Dee and his best friend Sid. They both got chosen to go into the army at the age of 17. They are both fighting against the Nazis, but Dee has a secret that he has never told anyone, and if he does tell anyone, he might die. Read the book to find out what happens when his secret gets revealed.

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The Outsiders is a perplexed novel that consists of many twists unpredicted by the common reader. The novel follows a young "greaser" named Ponyboy. Ponyboy, or better known as "pony" is recognized as a common greaser, slicked back hair, enrolled in a gang, depleting personal life, yet pony consists of unnatural greaser characteristics. Like pity, and sympathy. Often times an uncontrollable rage toward the common enemy across town, the "Socs". Though Pony is accompanied by his trustful gang, an emptiness lurks inside of him. Now the question remains, will pony rise to the adversities accustomed to being a Greaser, or will he change their reputation forever? Read, and emerge your senses into a whole new perspective on American life.

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The Toll by Neal Shusterman is the third book in the Ark of a Scythe series. The Toll is an exciting, shocking, and dark book that takes place in the year 2042 where an AI rules the world and Scythes are the only people who can bring death. Scythe Goddard however abuses his Scythe powers to commit mass gleanings while trying to kill Rowan and Scythe Anastasia (Citra) along the way. Will Rowan and Anastasia escape in time, or will they fall victim to Goddard. Read Scythe, Thunderhead, then The Toll to find out what happens to Rowan and Citra.

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Want to read a dystopian book? Then The Giver by Lois Lowry is a perfect dystopian book. The story takes place in a society that has many rules that citizens have to follow. One day Jonas is at a ceremony where he is given a difficult job that he must figure out. This is a really good book for anyone who wants to read dystopian books

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Ball Don't Lie is about "Sticky" a young teenager from the streets. He is in and out of foster homes, but there is one thing that can help keep him out of being in the streets, that's basketball. Sticky puts the hours in at his local rec center and plays everyday after his educational prowess. He tries out for his high school basketball team but will he be the hero they need and the hero he himself needs?

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This book is has a challenging parts for the characters they are forced to leave their homes in Lithuania to go to a bunch of Concentration camps. This book is filled with with a lot of mean guards being disgusting to girls and putting people to work for them. After they work all day they only give them one piece of bread to share, therefore they have to fight for their food and work extra hard to able able to have enough food to feed all of them. This story is not real but its based of real life events that happened.

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The Boy in the Woods is an adventurous and suspenseful book. That will always make you wanting to read more of the book. The Boy in the Woods is about a Jewish boy's adventure running away from the Nazis and what he all experienced and felt on his journey going to Israel. If you want to see what horrible things a Jewish boy had to go through during the Nazis reign read the book The Boy in the Woods.

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Have you ever wanted to break every rule in school? Well me neither, but Rafe our main character wants to. It's a story about how Rafe gets into his school and wants to break every rule and about his life and his friend Leo the silent. Make sure to check out this book to see how Rafe breaks the rules and the punishments for them

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The Summer I Turned Pretty is a romantic, drama-filled story with many twists and turns. Belly has spent every summer of her life in Cousin's Beach at the summer house, but this summer is different. This summer, she faces drama with three different boys, and has to decide which one her heart is truly drawn to. On top of this, something happens over the summer that changes Belly forever, and leaves her feeling depressed. This is a perfect read for anyone who is interested in romance stories that leaves you on the edge of your seat, never knowing what is to come. Flip the page to learn just what happens to Belly over this unforgettable summer.

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The Firm is a story filled adventure and action. The Firm tells a story of Mitch who just got out of law school(Harvard) hoping to find a new job. He finds an amazing paying job in a small firm. He has a big mansion, huge paychecks, and nice co-workers. All of a sudden Mitch turns from a happy life to living in fear of being killed. Will Mitch ever be able to go back to his old life? You'll have to read to find out.

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In We Will Always Have Summer by Jen Han, Belly has always loved Conrad,but Jeremiah has always loved Belly. The whole story it has been Conrad, but now could it be Jeremiah? Since Belly and Conrad broke up its Jeremiah's time to get Belly back and this time for good. Once they start dating things move fast. Belly says she is in love with Jeremiah, but can't seem to get Conrad off her mind.To find out if belly said “I do” to Jeremiah or Conrad read the book We Will Always Have Summer by Jen Han.

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It's Not Summer without You by Jenny Han

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If you love beaches, family drama, and plot twists you should read It's Not Summer Without You by Jenny Han. In this adventure, Belly Conklin tides an emotional roller coaster of love and loss. Every Summer is "magical", but lately Belly has started adventure breakups and make-ups with the Fisher boys, Conrad and Jeremiah. Follow Belly through the ups and downs, and twistsh and turns of her "magical" summer.

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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a powerful and unsettling book where you are taken on a journey. This isn't just any journey, this is one where the main character is a nine-year-old boy named Bruno and he takes you on an unforgettable journey. This book takes place just right outside of Auschwitz where Bruno and his family move to because of his dad's job. If you want to find out what Bruno's dad's job is then read the book The Boys in Striped Pajamas to find out.

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Looking for a jaw-dropping, heartfelt book? A Night Divided by Jennifer A. Nielsen is just the book you're looking for. Each page turned has a new character to meet. Twelve-year-old Gerta and her family were separated by the Berlin Wall. She has to figure out a way to connect with her family without being caught. She is begging for a sign of escape. Will she make it or not? You'll have to read to find out.

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Divergent by Veronica Roth is an eventful, action-packed book filled with friendship, love, and challenges. After Beatrice takes a test, she finds out there is something different about her. Beatrice strays away from her family and everybody she loves on an adventure to find out more about who and what she really is. She goes through many obstacles challenging both her physical and mental strength. She makes new friends and uncovers secrets all while hiding her true identity

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Have you ever wondered what a war in the future would be like? Book two in the Divergent series, Insurgent By Veronica Roth, is a futuristic book about survival in the midst of a war. Tris and her gang team up to fight the Erudite in a war lasting many days. Will they survive? Will Tris and Four get to keep their relationship strong? Find out in Insurgent.