Scythe , by Neal Shusterman, is a solid 10/10. This adventure, dystopian book borders on psychological horror and dives headfirst into moral questions. Scythe takes place in the far future where humanity has defeated every illness and achieved immortality. However, overpopulation threatens to drive humanity to extinction. So, death becomes a profession. People become scythes, literal grim reapers to cull the population. Two teenagers, Citra and Rowan, are drafted to become scythes against their will. To survive, they must learn to kill, poison, and choose who lives and who dies. As if that was not complicated enough, they must fix the scyethdom before humans do what humans do best and destroy themselves. 

This book makes you ponder every moral. Should humans live forever? Should death be in the hands of humans? Are robots truly better at governing than humans? Many readers still do not know the answers to these questions. It leaves the book trailing in the minds of readers for months to come. So many books are read and forgotten, but Scythe remains. This book also creates a realistic world. With how AI is progressing, the idea that a sentient supercomputer holding all the knowledge of human history is plausible. While the Scythe series is complete, the series is being adapted into a tv series. It will be very interesting to see how these moral conundrums are displayed on screen. Then, a whole new audience will be forced to weigh these moral dilemmas as every reader has.