This wasn't the conclusion I was expecting and honestly, it took some of the love I had for these books, because the first installment was an absolute masterpiece in my eyes.

-we barely see Rowan and Citra
-this book could have easily been 400 pages, even less
-Faraday became one of my least favorite characters EVER, with the way he treated Munira and with how he never took responsibility or apologized to Rowan (at least) for the trajectory of his life
-so many unnecessary new characters that I didn't care about one bit

-there was no climax
-Goddard's defeat was unsatisfying and happened within one paragraph, when we've wasted pages and pages shaping him up to be the villain that he is
-I'll say it again because it really irked me, ROWAN AND CITRA ARE ONLY THE 15% OF THIS MASSIVE BOOK
-the time spent dealing with Tonists was borderline obnoxious

I don't know, man. "Scythe" compared to "The Toll" is a completely different book. This book didn't even focus on the characters we've come to love, it just introduced so many new ones that it felt like the beginning of a trilogy. So many different POV's and all from new characters, so many contemplative passages about the Toll and the Tonist faith and the Thunderhead... I'm a little bit sad, tbh. Not because this series is finished, but because it finished like this.