 What would the world look like if it was free of death, disease, and sickness? Well, that's what Neil Shusterman seeks to look at and explore in his series called Scythe. The first one is called Scythe. The second one is Thunderhead. Now, Neil Shusterman, you guys, is one of my all-time favorite young adult authors. He also wrote Unwind, the Unwind series, and another book called Challenger Deep. He is really wonderful at writing dystopian kind of novels, although Challenger Deep was also dealing with mental health issues, which is fascinating, fascinating, and it was actually based on his son. Anyway, back to Thunderhead and Scythe. So the first one, Scythe, oh my goodness, wonderful, wonderful book. What it is basically talking about is science has gone so far as to basically do away with disease and death and sickness. And so what would happen, though, realistically if none of us died anymore? Well, overpopulation, right? And so what happens is that even though we've done away with death, there are people called sides. And what their job is, is to ethically take care of the population by gleaning, which is kind of like killing, people from the Earth. But they're supposed to do so in a way that's not targeting any age groups, any type of people at all. And so they're just supposed to do it randomly. But what that does is it keeps the population from just being right there on the edge of being too populated on Earth while also keeping control of the general population. So we follow in Scythe, the first one, the first book in the series, we follow Citra and Rowan, who are going to be two brand new sides. They basically are competing over which one is going to get to be a new Scythe and get to have this honorable job. Well, it ends up that even though this is an honorable position, people just like we see now are taking advantage of being in this honorable position. They maybe enjoy it a little bit too much. They enjoy the process of killing. They maybe are actually like biased towards killing a certain type of group of people or a certain age group or gender. And so things are a little bit corrupt. So both Citra and Rowan feel really strongly that this is not right. And so they make it kind of their goal to figure out how to actually get this position of Scythe, but also do it in an honorable way. And so you explore that throughout the entire book. Well, in the first book, you're also looking at something called the Thunderhead. And the Thunderhead is kind of this all encompassing like it's kind of like the cloud, like when we send pictures up into the cloud and whatnot. But what it really is is all of human knowledge in one kind of air systematic kind of area. And it's basically there not to make decisions for people, but to basically keep the peace. And it's kind of the only governing body that is there. And so besides the sides who are gleaning and taking care of the population. This is where everyone finds their knowledge and it's the thing that makes the laws and rules. And it's pretty fascinating. So in the second book right here, Thunderhead, we still are following Citra and Rowan. But this time we're even taking a closer look at the Thunderhead, which is what I was just telling you about that collective knowledge that is of all of human. All of human knowledge basically that's together and we're following the Thunderhead. And it is just this fascinating, fascinating book that is really exploring like can really we ever gather all of human knowledge in one place? Is there life after death? Should we actually be taking away disease, sickness, death or is that just something that should be part of life? And it really examines some really hard questions, but it does so in like this very suspenseful, intriguing, fast-paced kind of book. There is a strong female character, strong male characters. This book is great for anyone who enjoys dystopia and also asking maybe those deeper questions of life. Love it, love it, love it. I gave Psy five stars and I give Thunderhead five stars too. And if you can do that with a sequel of the book, then by all means, this is awesome. And there should be a third one coming out in the next year. So I hope you enjoy Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman.