Ryan

Just as good if not better than the first book! Feels chillingly relatable in our current world.

Amazing and intricately designed idea of a future “utopia” where science has progressed so far no one can die a natural death anymore.

The idea of scythes in a world like this is a very interesting moral question and this book does a great job of setting up tension between those who view the responsibilities and privileges of a scythe differently.

I liked this book more than I expected to. The development of the romance was heartwarming and I liked the way Shane’s coming out was handled. My favorite parts were all the very subtle signs at the two main characters falling in love in the mid section. I also thought the character development was very consistently balanced and executed with both Shane and Ilya. That is hands down the biggest strength of this book. It felt like the book was very well written as a whole!

I found only a few cons with the book. First, I expected there to be more emphasis on hockey drama. I never felt excited with the brief descriptions of games. Pretty minor thing since that really wasn’t the point of the book, but I was a tad bit disappointed.

My other con can hardly be counted as a con, since I absolutely knew what I was getting myself into, but I didn’t like the smut very much. This was definitely a personal preference. It was too much for me and I thought it quickly became repetitive. But if you’re someone that actually prefers there to be smut in a book, you’ll probably like this.

I didn’t expect myself to be a fan but it was a good book!

This book started off so boring and then in part two it was suddenly really dumb and predictable. I hate to say that the first book was good compared to this. Buuuut the ending was very satisfying. Also, the format of the second part was exactly the same as it was in the first book, and by that point it felt really gimmicky.

The first half of this book started out very slow. The second half felt like there was an attempt to grip the reader by cramming as many twists in as possible - all of which were predictable. Reading the book was definitely very entertaining but I was hardly thrilled. The main character’s perspective felt like it was written by a 13 year old.