A true successor to The Hunger Games. Maggie Stiefvater In a perfect world; what is there left to fear? A chilling and thought-provoking sci-fi novel from New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman. A dark; gripping and witty thriller in which the only thing humanity has control over is death. In a world where disease; war and crime have been eliminated; the only way to die is to be randomly killed ( gleaned ) by professional scythes. Citra and Rowan are teenagers who have been selected to be scythes' apprentices; and despite wanting nothing to do with the vocation; they must learn the art of killing and understand the necessity of what they do. Only one of them will be chosen as a scythe's apprentice and as Citra and Rowan come up against a terrifyingly corrupt Scythedom; it becomes clear that the winning apprentice's first task will be to glean the loser.