Their lives go off the rails even further when they learn the catch to their challenge, one will emerge victorious and dawn the cloak of a Scythe, while the other will be gleaned by the victor. Along their journey, they are thrown into the world of The Scythedom, where some revel in their means of ending another’s life, while others are internally tortured by their actions. Neither want the proposed position, but soon find out that not wanting to be a Scythe is the first step in actually becoming one. They are trained in the art of taking one’s life, learning the one talent nobody strives for. Two teenagers, Rowan Damisch and Citra Terranova, are stripped of their normal lives and placed under the wing of Scythe Faraday, one of the many agents of death, in a duel-apprenticeship. But in a world purged of the negatives in life, new problems are bound to arise. Now, in this unified Earth, two organizations govern the human race: The Thunderhead, an omniscient artificial intelligence and evolutionary form of the internet, and The Sycthedom, a society of executioners with the self-given authority over taking the lives, or gleaning, the immortal people of this new world and balancing the undying population. And the greatest of their victories, their conquering over death itself. Humanity, throughout the years, has slowly dominated and subdued the many dangers and threats of life.
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