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Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman

9 reviews

ging090803's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.75

Sooooooo good
Its been a while since I’ve read a great book that made me want to read all the time, at every opportunity. I couldn’t put the book down!
I looooved the political intrigue again. Scythe Anastasia is badass, getting confidence as a new scythe. The relations between Scythe Curie and Anastasia is perfect… How they grew to become part of each other…! Rowan the beast!

I would have like though a little bit more of him in the book. I felt like he was mostly there to just complained about work ethics and getting killed multiple time

I wasn’t sure about the new character, Greyson, but I liked how he slowly became more important.

Although he kinda disappeared after half the book which confused me about his role in all of this

I can’t wait to see what Faraday will know/discover!

And I love but hate at the same time how the Thunderhead reacted. We don’t know its plan, but its reaction felt a little too human to my taste for something who is supposed to help human/be impartial

The -0.25 is for 2 things who are completely personal so… 
1. It was slow in the beginning. I had trouble to start the book. And I also didnt like how we have multiple POV yet we were still in the dark for most of the thing. I would have liked to know a little more to really feel what we were up against

and not just by the little “monologues” from the Thunderhead that still didn’t explained much. Also, f*ck Goddard. He really pisses me off. He’s such a bad but good villain at the same time because, some times, he can be smart. I hate how he can get away with everything. He still acts impulsively without any real consequence.

2. Very personal for me :

the dead of Scythe Curie killed a part of me. I loved her. She was my favorite character. Her or Scythe Anastasia. Anyway, her death might have caused me to let out some tears. I went through all stages of grief from denial to anger… I have yet to go through acceptance. I think I might still be mad. Why:’( I’m sad and will make her death my whole depression’s personality for the next week(s?).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gun violence, Murder, Death, and Blood

Moderate: Medical content, Torture, Medical trauma, and Suicide

a_cera_t0ps's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.75

It felt way more action-packed than book 1. Everything happened pretty fast, but it kept a good pace. It was a really good bridging book that smoothy opened up even more plot threads while still staying consistent with what it already had to work with. This book was mainly just to establish new characters and a big bad, but it was still a compelling, fun read, especially if you're coming right off the heels of the first book in the series. 500 pages went fast.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Hate crime, Fire/Fire injury, Religious bigotry, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Medical trauma, Medical content, Police brutality, Murder, and Toxic relationship

msradiosilence's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Addiction, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Drug use, Grief, Alcohol, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Suicide, Blood, and Murder

rangerwing75's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense

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

5.0

Okay okay okay okay

SO

I know I’m not the most thrilled that

Goddard is alive. After that super satisfying death he was given in the first book, it pissed me off a bit because I also just overall dislike the resurrection trope

BUT I can see how it was necessary for this book’s fantabulous events to unfold. 

Greyson is now my second favourite character, tied with Citra. 

The ending was pure gold and just wiabsajealsssja

I am scared for how the next book is going to follow this up, because how do you follow up something as amazing as this? 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Murder, Suicide, Body horror, Medical content, and Blood

Minor: Cursing and Sexual content

cepbreed's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

I cannot put my finger on it, but this sequel lacked the bite of the first story. When a new dystopian world is introduced there is so much to uncover, so many mysteries, and this book dashed the opportunity to capitalize off of the excitement by droning on into the semantics. By that, I just mean it could have been much more straightforward. I can say that I absolutely adored the twist and it was very well done. I will be vague; this choice furthered the plot much more simply than a new introduction could. I am very impressed with how the Thunderhead was handled. It is hard to write an omniscient AI this compelling. However fun the world-building is, I was still missing a lot of interaction between Citra and Rowan.

Song:

• Cinnamon Girl - Lana Del Rey
• Everybody's Watching Me (Uh Oh) - The Neighborhood

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gaslighting, Blood, Gore, Grief, Murder, Suicide attempt, Car accident, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Confinement, Suicide, and Violence

Moderate: Medical content

Minor: Fire/Fire injury and Hate crime

rara_pp's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Death, Genocide, Murder, Suicide, Torture, Toxic friendship, and Violence

Moderate: Gaslighting, Grief, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Slavery, Stalking, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, and War

Minor: Abandonment and Confinement

readwithde's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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

4.5

Once again, I was shocked and surprised by this series. I love how seamlessly the story fluctuates between action, drama, emotion, and philosophy; it is like reading the best parts of many different genres.

Mainly, I view this as a story of four pairs:

Rowan & Citra, Faraday & Curie, Goddard & Rand, and Grayson & The Thunderhead.

In each pair, the two have to separate (or are separated) to fulfill their own mission. While there is mutual respect between some pairs, others fall to infighting or distrust. By the end of the book

most of these pairs have reunited, now able to face this new era of humanity together.

I was able to guess many of the end of the book twists, but much of the middle was a surprise. I had no idea how much I would love Grayson's story, or even what would happen with Tyger. It made the book go very quickly in the middle, but the end seemed less impactful and a bit slow when you can guess what is coming. 

I loved the duality through the book, not only by having these pairs working both together and separately, but even how the unsavories were similar to the scythes in many ways; even the tonists and scythes have similar rituals. These binary pieces constantly swirl parallel to each other as the book's DNA, all while The Thunderhead is forced to sit back and allow humanity to forge its own path. 

All of this might make you think this is a dense and philosophical book, but the plot is fairly straightforward, fun, and action-packed. The characters just have a lot to deal with, and when it has to do with matters of life and death, it is heavier than a typical YA futuristic dystopian novel.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Dysphoria, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Suicide, Torture, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Body horror, Bullying, Cultural appropriation, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Kidnapping, and Sexual content

gonnachangethislater's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Violence, Physical abuse, and Murder

Moderate: Blood, Death of parent, Gore, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Torture

aviery's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Medical content, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Torture, and Medical trauma

Minor: Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, and Sexual content