![]() ![]() Despite all the advances, including the ability to stop aging by euphemistically, "turning the corner," and setting physical and biological clocks back, becoming as young as twenty-one again, absolute power still corrupts absolutely. While Shusterman flips dystopian civilization on its head with Scythe, he has not created a utopian world by any means. ![]() We listened to four of the ten hours on the drive up and listened non-stop, on the edge of our seats, for the entire drive home, finishing a few miles from our front door. ![]() After reading half of a review of Scythe, knowing Shusterman's talent and listening to a sample of Greg Tremblay reading the book (and he does a PHENOMENAL job creating the many characters, including a teenaged girl.) I knew this was the book for us. Shusterman called on personal experience as the father of a schizophrenic son to write the book, with his son illustrating the novel. Shusterman's previous book, Challenger Deep, about a teen boy's decent into mental illness, won the National Book Award, among many other accolades. Scythe came out November of 2016 and won a Printz Honor (the YA version of the Newbery) in January of 2017. ![]() But, my twenty-four-year old daughter, twelve-year-old son and I were about to embark on an eight hour road trip and I wanted a book all three of us would enjoy. While I love it, I don't read as much YA as I used to when I was a bookseller and I was seeing it on the shelf everyday. ![]()
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