Reviews with content warning for Injury/Injury detail - Kosiarze

There was an interesting premise in here but it was buried beneath such dark murderous death ideology that it was hard to latch onto.
Obviously a book about kids learning to be the state sanctioned murderers wasn’t going to be a light hearted book, but the writing was quite good and I listened longer than I would have thought.
I didn’t appreciate the use of 10 commandments.
I thought the exploration of what happens if you don’t have an expiration date interesting and to see where the author went with that was probably the reason I lasted so long.
Ultimately, I was sick of reading about so much murder in one book.

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meeklovestoread's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging lighthearted fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

Uggghhhh! I read this almost a month ago so sadly my thoughts on it aren't too fresh, but overall I really enjoyed this one. This book is very fast-paced. I read the first 200 pages in like 4 hours. I couldn't put it down. It was so fun to go along through; you can tell the author really put some thoughts into the mechanisms and rules of the world (however, I do wish the actual word building itself was expanded upon a bit more aside from the scythe and scythe politics). I really enjoyed the little journals entries in the beginning of each chapter; they really do become significant later on in the book. This book really threw me in for a loop. I was thoroughly entertained the whole way through and I was really curious on where the autour was going to take things after the first quarter. Again, really enjoyed this one! It was exactly what I needed at the time. Will most definitely be reading book 2!

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tehstorm's review against another edition

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adventurous dark medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

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bleidddrwg's review against another edition

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adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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fengxin's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional reflective tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

i knew from the first chapter this book would be 5 stars. everything about it is so well done: the setup, the characterization, the exposition to the worldbuilding which could've easily read like a textbook but felt natural instead, the dialogue. i was immediately taken by the philosophical aspect of it, the very concept this story explores, and although every character was compelling, i think my favorite is scythe faraday, he's so interesting i'm truly fascinated by him. the journals of h.s. curie before each chapter were such a cool addition, every journal was but hers especially — the retrospective, the almost nostalgia of it, the way she speaks of crime and death and humanity, all so detached from her current reality. i did disagree with the part about religion, how she wrote that nearly all had become irrelevant after conquering death. i think it's so diminishing to reduce faith to a belief only connected to death. it's definitely my personal opinion, but i don't believe faith in any god(s) would be obsolete after people becoming immortal, because people don't just pray to ward off death.

faraday's "death"?

i lost my mind. there's just no way. i'm glad it did properly introduce scythe curie's character outside of her journal entries, i really like her. goddard however? easily one of my most hated characters in fiction. chapter 36 was glorious in every possible way, if i had confetti i would've thrown them. and the ending? just incredible. oh rowan i love you so dearly. i find him so wonderful, his arc was so complex but truly well done, and i absolutely can't wait to see him develop more. i adore citra as well, she's everything i love in a female character. but my number one stays faraday, with marie right on his heels. overall an incredible setup to a trilogy, i'm so excited to continue with it and i can only chastise myself for not picking it up sooner.

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psyduck11's review against another edition

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mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? N/A
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

Me ha parecido una lectura bastante interesante con muchos temas de los que se pueden debatir, pero siento que han habido varios agujeros en el mundo del libro que ha hecho que se me descolgara un poco.
Se hace mucho incapié en que la sociedad del libro es una sociedad inmortal en la que se ha erradicado la muerte y por eso se formó la Guadaña, para mantener a raya el nivel de población. Primero, no creo que sea compatible el hecho de que exista la Guadaña (la muerte en este caso) y una sociedad inmortal porque entonces eso diría que la Guadaña no está haciendo el trabajo que debería de cribar a las personas necesarias para mantener la población estable. Y la segunda es justo lo último, para mantener la población estable se puede realizar simplemente manteniendo el mismo número de muertes que por nacimientos y ya no habría problema de sobrepoblación.
Puede que esté equivocado, pero eso es lo que pienso ahora y, además, soy consciente de que es el primer libro de una trilogía y, por tanto, puede que estas cosas se hablen más en profundidad o se resuelvan en los libros siguientes.
En general la historia ha estado bien y entretenida y (a excepción de algunas cositas de estructura de personajes que no están muy allá y algunos agujeros argumentativos que no se explican) no he visto demasiadas pegas.

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