7/8/2023 0 Comments Thunderhead the toll![]() ![]() ![]() The Toll also employs set action pieces-far too typical of Y.A. Be precise and remember that words have meaning.) Action! Substance and Plot Missing… ![]() (My apologies to grade-schoolers everywhere. It isn’t nearly as shameless as the screen-craving Hunger Games atrocities, but in places it looks like a bad college essay written the night before it’s due, trying to disguise its tardiness by flaunting disproportionately big (and sometimes misused) vocabulary in the middle of grade school level sentences. I had perhaps too great hopes for the third book, The Toll. Thunderhead, the second book (not reviewed on the Forum), raised the bar even higher. If you read my Scythe review, you’ll know that the first book in Neal Shusterman’s Arc of a Scythe trilogy entranced and intrigued me. ![]()
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