Thunderhead by Neal ShustermanMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Pages : 515
Year : 2018
Genre : Dystopia , YA
Series : Arc of Scythe 2/3
Thunderhead follows the previous, couple of months later (almost a year). Here we follow Anastasia the vast majority of the time (almost always accompanied with Granddame Curie, also a bit of Rowan as he is killing scythes that are a shame for the ideals they (old guard) represent. If anyone likes gleaming, is discriminatory etc - will get gleam by Scythe Lucifer. We also follow a bit of Faraday (which at the time is hidden and looking for the Land of Nod) and he is being helped by a Scythe wannabe / librarian Munira (although these instances are far in-between the great scheme and finally we have a new character, Greyson Tolliver who is enamoured with thunderhead even wanting to work for her but following what he thought it was her advise he breaks one of the vows of contacting the Scythes and his expelled.
But the main character and probably the most interesting , flesh out one is not those above. OH no, she is every chapter (and there are more than 40) and we get to see, finally, what is the ThunderHead. This tale we get to know her more and more and even more, we see her change as the story progress. It was an amazing feet to make it happen and I really love it. She (is a it maybe?) a lot throughout the book , although a lot of it was a bit predictable. Read and understand why.
The ending was very good and I can't understand the feeling of people waiting a year for the end. Thank the lords I Am late to the party. Not in February but in March I am going to read it. 83/100.
If you enjoy the first you are going to enjoy the second - although and there is a caveat, the last two were highly focus on those two teens and their pseudo-love story. Here both characters are there but the most important thing is ThunderHead and the going forward with all the plotlines... If you were invested on those two characters, well I Don't' know book 3 but I expect some closure there. The main story, again is the politics within the scythes. Old Guards vs Goddard and the correct way of gleaming, the all scythes society vs thunderhead and finally the city and procedures. Again, highly focus on advancing the plotlines, less on characters
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