REVIEW + GIVEAWAY starring... Gleanings by Neal Shusterman

We're heading back into the vivid world author Neal Shusterman created, once upon a time as we host a spot on the Rockstar Book Tours event rocking the blogosphere! It's a trilogy that was memorable, forceful, and action packed, creating a legion of fans that never knew what hit them, and would never forget all they learned, all the experienced, all they felt between those pages.  After finishing the final book, a reader can always go back to the start...but what if there was more?  What if we could dive further into the people, places, and events that shaped the books we loved?  Now THAT would be rather delightful...

GLEANINGS: Stories from the Arc of a Scythe

by Neal Shusterman—along with collaborators David Yoon, Jarrod Shusterman, Sofía Lapuente, Michael H. Payne, Michelle Knowlden, and Joelle Shusterman

RELEASE DATE:  November 8, 2022

Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, Audible, B&N, iBooks, Kobo, TBD, Bookshop.org

The New York Times bestselling Arc of the Scythe series continues with thrilling stories that span the timeline. Storylines continue. Origin stories are revealed. And new Scythes emerge!

There are still countless tales of the Scythedom to tell. Centuries passed between the Thunderhead cradling humanity and Scythe Goddard trying to turn it upside down. For years humans lived in a world without hunger, disease, or death with Scythes as the living instruments of population control.

Neal Shusterman—along with collaborators David Yoon, Jarrod Shusterman, Sofía Lapuente, Michael H. Payne, Michelle Knowlden, and Joelle Shusterman—returns to the world throughout the timeline of the Arc of a Scythe series. Discover secrets and histories of characters you’ve followed for three volumes and meet new heroes, new foes, and some figures in between.

Gleanings shows just how expansive, terrifying, and thrilling the world that began with the Printz Honor–winning Scythe truly is.

 

Haven’t started the Arc of a Scythe series? Start your journey now!

 

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So.

Here we are.

Back in the Scythe-dom and ready for action.

But...if you haven't indulged in the trilogy, I highly suggest you backtrack to the start.

What's that?

Oh, I get it...who am I to tell you what books to read, let alone in what order to read them?

No one.

Just a fellow reader that has been there, understood that, and still begs you to listen!

This is a collection of stories FROM that world.  If you don't have the foundation to add them into, you've got a 75% chance of being lost...and lost is somewhere you don't want to be when dealing with those who's job is to essentially keep the population in check...if you get my drift.  Here, fans get what they never knew they wanted, and yet craved in some way nonetheless.  We get to see Scythe Marie Curie as she navigates her new role, while be anything other than accepted by her peers.  We have the chance to experience the events on a certain "All Hallows Eve" night that changed many things.  We see the egos and artistry, watch the growth and decay, feel the tension and call to movement that may not be in anyone's best interests.  We are privy to so many new things we never knew to desire, and yet now, having them in our grasp, couldn't fathom the trilogy being without.

So yes, indulge in this book, but first binge read the first three to plunge yourself into this fascinating world where death is an artform, and the right to practice it, a privilege few will achieve.

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About Neal Shusterman:

Neal Shusterman is the New York Times bestselling author of more than thirty award-winning books for children, teens, and adults, including the Unwind dystology, the Skinjacker trilogy, Downsiders, and Challenger Deep, which won the National Book Award. Scythe, the first book in his latest series, Arc of a Scythe, is a Michael L. Printz Honor Book. He also writes screenplays for motion pictures and television shows. Neal is the father of four, all of whom are talented writers and artists themselves. Visit Neal at StoryMan.com and Facebook.com/NealShusterman.

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~~~   GIVEAWAY   ~~~ 

1 winner will receive a finished copy of GLEANINGS, US Only.

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Special thanks to the Rockstar Book Tours team for the chance to bring this tour to you and to the publisher for the copy for review. (THANKS!) For more information on this title, the author, the publisher, this tour, or those on the horizon, feel free to click through the links provided above. This title is available now, so click on over to your favorite online retailer or visit your local brick and mortar to grab your copy today! Catch the rest of the tour for more!

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