1st Quarter Book Review: Thunderhead

The first quarter book I decided to review is Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman. It is a five hundred four page science-fiction book where the world is a utopia because a super advanced artificial intelligence called the Thunderhead is the supreme ruler of the world. This is book two in a series called Arc of a Scythe and is the latest one in the series. Book one is called Scythe. The backstory to this series revolves around the idea that all the world's problems have been solved by the Thunderhead. These problems include world hunger, disease, global warming, pollution, renewable energy, world peace, aging and most importantly death. With death being solved people feared over population so they created they created the scythedom which the Thunderhead can not interfere with and the scythedom is above all authority. The scythedom's purpose is to train worthy apprentices in the "art of killing" so that they could become scythes who are the only people who have the permission to take lives. The plot of Thunderhead is that the scythedom is having an internal conflict between its two major philosophical parties and matters are coming to a critical point. The story follows the two main characters form the first book. The first main character is Rowan Damisch, who goes by the title of Scythe Lucifer, who's mission is to end corruption in the scythedom from the outside. The second main character is Citra Terranova, who goes by the title of Scythe Anastasia, and is trying to fix the scythedom form the inside. The things I like most about the book is how it makes references to present day things like famous people or concepts and presents them like they are something form ancient history.