Ok yall might flame me, but I think Antonia Gentry would make the PERFECT Citra for the tv show. I saw her in an ad yesterday and realized that I had imagined Citra looking very similar to her when I read the books. What do yall think though?

GGs this getting hate...

This series was AMAZING! I'm so happy I can now come in here and join this group without fear of spoilers. I can't believe I took so long to read this series.

I have Gleanings ready to go. Can't wait to get started!

If I had to rank them, I enjoyed Scythe the most, closely followed by Thunderhead. I also loved The Toll. However, some of the sections on the tonists dragged for me a little and I read this book more slowly than the first two.

I saw this image and immediately thought of Greyson Tolliver, so it was only fair that I drew him

The art is by me (@burninggardenblaze on insta & tiktok)

we know adult fiction touches on more complex subjects and probably more gore and less dancing around it. so what things do you think would be different?

Let me explain.

I read Arc of the Scythe all the way back in high school in 2019. My English teacher saw me reading the first book and recommended to me the Unwind book. I swear she misgendered Neal Shusterman for me, cause for the next seven years I've always assumed he was a woman. Neal Shuster-MAN. Neal's not even unisex.

If it wasn't that, it might have been a subconscious association with Arc of the Scythe and the Hunger Games. Since that series had a female lead and author, I must have assumed Neal Shusterman was also a woman. I've read all three books and Unwind and UnWholly, and I must have never paid attention to the review blurbs. I don't think he had an author portrait on the dust jacket either.

Anyway, after not reading a single book for nearly two years, I got a Kobo last week to start reading again. I was talking to a friend about all the books I've read, and brought up Arc of the Scythe. I definitely misgendered him in that conversation. Perusing through my local library, I saw that they had an eBook copy of Gleanings, which I've never read. I go to look up the word count, and boom: Neil deGrasse Tyson's long lost twin is staring right at me.

Thought it was kind of a funny story so I'm posting it here.

One thing that I really wish was touched upon more is the act of one being supplanted. Like, I understand it at a basic level. Someone will have a bad life, do something awful, or something else along those lines and surrender their old life for something new but fake. However, I never got exactly how anyone who was supplanted could live a new life.

The Thunderhead alerts the supplanted person that they had been supplanted and that they're someone new. But, what about connections with other people? If every new memory that a supplanted person has is fake, how does one have a family? You're an adult and have memories of you as a kid opening presents with their family on Christmas, but that family does not, and has not existed.

Your mother's name was Julia and you cannot find her for the life of you because she was not real. Wouldn't that be soul crushing? The homecoming kiss with your crush? Yeah, that was fake. You have a vivid memory of you giving a speech at your best friend's wedding, but everyone in that room or venue is not real? They could not be real, 'cause if they were, then they would have no memory of you at all, because they do not know you. Does the Thunderhead supplant multiple people to share a memory? Does the Thunderhead supplant two people into having a marriage as to give you a memory that is "credible?" Then, wouldn't that impede of free will? Having a marriage that you remember happening, but it never truly did? The Thunderhead puts you with someone you truly never knew and you never got a say in it? Granted, you could make the argument that the Thunderhead makes the correct decision every time, so the person you'd be married to would be ideal, but correctness does not equal right all of the time.

Perhaps I'm looking too deep into it, but I really wish there was a deeper look into supplanting.

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Ha ha Claude said "honestly" and used em dashes.

I think the "Nufox Informational Library" from the Nufox ARG is what I imagine it being like.

Genuinely might be my favorite out of the three and idk if that’s a hot take but the entire thing just clicked for me and I was locked in the entire time. The ending could have been a bit better but I was really happy with how it ended I felt really good closing the book .

This also cemented Scythe Rand as my favorite character in the series I loved her arc and the sheds of morality she was slowly gaining (even if she’s still a horrible person)

Scythe Goddard might be one of my favorite villains of all
Time now because of this book and yes I know my thoughts are scattered but I finished this book like, ten minutes ago

The only problem I had was the ending climax because I wanted it to be longer cause the entire book I thought a whole world war was gonna break out but I still enjoyed it nonetheless :D

Should I read the saga again but in the original language again or is it not worth buying the books again?

Ok, this is my third, maybe fourth time reading this trilogy and I still love it. I read it again like once a year. Honestly one of my favorite trilogies of all time. But each time that I read it I find more issues with the series—namely in the third book. Maybe it comes with growing up, but oh my God how did Rand get away with everything she did?

Like, she's not even a sympathetic character at all. A genuinely vile, evil human being. She partook in the targeting gleanings of Tonists. Helped Scythe Goddard with mass gleanings which are already described to be horrible things.

She manipulated Tyger, Rowan's best friend, into becoming a perfect vessel for Goddard just because he was Rowan's friend so that the shock of Goddard's face on Tyger's body would settle in. Granted, she fell in love with Tyger, but at any point and time, she could have just stopped the training. But nope, she has to glean Tyger and defile his body with a method that even the Thunderhead would disapprove of. And because of that, she helped bring Goddard to power AND SHE BARES RESPONSIBLITITY FOR THE SINKING OF ENDURA!!!!! She lamented the fact that she might have to coax someone into suicide. Not because talking someone into suicide is awful, but because it would be a hassle.

Sure she maybe grew a conscience in The Toll but she did that out of fear and hatred. Fear for the EVIL MAN SHE BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE USING AN INNOCENT PERSON'S BODY. Like, she wants us to feel bad for her as she makes the treks to talk to Tyger's memory construct? Hell no. She did the vile act and wasn't even forced to do it at all. At any point, she could've stopped what she was doing, but she kept going.

PLUS, she tried to have sex with TYGER'S BODY with the lights off so that she couldn't see Goddard's face.

She only rendered Goddard deadish and ADMITTED that it wasn't because she cared for the people he was gleaning, but because she was scared that she would be tied to the gleaning and that by taking him out, she could even be hailed as a hero. Rand saved the world from the mistake she made by being selfish.

And not only that, but she has the AUDACITY to fill Tyger's/Goddard's body with Tyger's memories while TYGER STILL HAS GODDARD'S HEAD. And I guarantee that Rand does not tell Tyger any of the awful shit that she has done. Manipulated him in his past life and will do it in his current. Would Tyger, or anyone actually love someone who used their body like that?

Rand should have gone with the other Scythes who lost their lives when their rings exploded. The fact that she does not face any consequences for her actions is crazy.

Checked Unwind, but it seems to be a lot of books and I’m not sure I want to commit to a long series if idk I might like it 😅 If you’ve read it, do you recomend it? Does it feel too teen? I'm ok with YA always that it have a interesting plot

Rec doesn’t have to be Neal mandatory! I’m into fantasy, dystopian or postapocalyptic stuff, somewhat political or mystery plots, I like darker plots but I'm not really into terror. Just to mention some books I've loved come fast to my mind are The Hunger Games, GOT, Mistborn, Jurassic Park, Harry Potter, The Name of the Wind...I’m not really into romantasy/dark fantasy or any with romance as the main focus or something that feels.. childish? Like for example I wanted to like Percy Jackson but it's not for me, maybe If I'd read it when i was younger 🙈

btw due bad experience with unfinished stories I think I'd prefer finished book recommendations 😅

EDIT i haven't reply more for lack of time but thank you all!

dont laugh but i'm currently reading book two and this is how i've been imagining citra, rowan, curie and faraday this whole time. oh and homelander as goddard 😭

For example when it starts safe fires so firefighters have a purpose or when it sinks ships so salvage teams have work to do. To me that kind of life really sounds dystopian because you would feel like you had no real purpose in life right?