Arc of a Scythe

About Scythe

Neal Shusterman's Arc of a Scythe trilogy is set in a post-mortal world where disease and war have been eliminated by a benevolent AI called the Thunderhead, and an order of Scythes administers the only remaining death to control population. Two teenagers are apprenticed to a Scythe in Book 1 and discover the institution is being corrupted from within. The series is a philosophical YA thriller that asks what the value of human life is when it has been stripped of natural death — and what happens when the people who decide who dies gain absolute power.