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The Toll: Arc of a Scythe Book 3 by Neal Shusterman

March 15, 2023 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

This series is outstanding. This final book hit all the right notes and brought its several storylines together in a coherent, exciting and generally satisfying way. My review of Thunderhead indicated that there was a biblical tone to that book, and that tone is even more obvious in The Toll. But this is not a series about religion so much as about human nature, politics and belief. The Toll brings together four storylines. There is the story of Scythe Faraday and his search for the […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: CBR15, ElCicco, Fiction, Neal Shusterman, the toll, YA

ElCicco's CBR15 Review No:18 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: CBR15, ElCicco, Fiction, Neal Shusterman, the toll, YA ·
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That rare beast, a great final book.

The Toll (Arc of a Scythe, #3) by Neal Shusterman

December 30, 2019 by narfna Leave a Comment

That was a really good ending. I am incredibly satisfied by it. It did what my favorite endings do, which is to manage to surprise me with things that feel inevitable. I am going to hold off on the five stars, after sleeping on it. I’m not quite sure why, though. Maybe when I do an eventual re-read (I most definitely need to, to see the whole arc), I’ll up it to five stars, which I will confess was my first instinct. I don’t really […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, arc of a scythe, narfna, Neal Shusterman, sci-fi, speculative, the toll, Young Adult

narfna's CBR11 Review No:157 · Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, arc of a scythe, narfna, Neal Shusterman, sci-fi, speculative, the toll, Young Adult ·
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