Okay, here's the thing…

I got hooked to this book, so there must have been something about it that I enjoyed: The story is so different to most YA. The use of third person multiple POV. The concept and bluntness of it was quite something. But, here are my issues:

Plot -

Citra on the Run

The plot moved at a okay pace for me.

And when Citra was accused of Scythe Faraday's death and had to go on the run into 'Amazonia', things got interesting. But as soon as she reached her location and found Scythe Faraday, everything was okay. Scythe Curie somehow got her out of accusation and Citra returned home like nothing happened.

It was a waste of an interesting plot point that could have lead to a much larger and stronger ending.

Discrepancies in rules
I can only remember the main two tbh, but there were a few.

Scythes 'glean' people because natural death pretty much no longer happens - bar fire, if your scorched, your dead. Humans are advanced enough that Earth can sustainably support them. So, less pressure is there to keep the human population down. However, it is still brought up several times that the chance of being gleaned is ignorable, that most people can expect to live thousands of years. So why are Scythes so important, if they make a minute impact? Otherwise the small amount of dead are an even greater loss.

This is not a 'perfect' world, and there are disagreements. Once a year Scythes are checked that they are gleanings near enough equally of each genetic race. Scythe Curie points out in her journal that despite trying to be culturally and genetically non bias, peoples genetic index options  has 'Caucasoid' listed first. But people don't live evenly raced geographically. One Scythe who was bought up on their uneven gleanings protested that their area had uneven ethnicity and was merely told to glean further afield. This just makes no sense, it’s not a moral point of thought for the story such as listing Caucasoid first, it's just stupid logic.

Characters and their 'Romance'
I felt Citra's character wasn't fleshed out enough. The feelings Citra and Rowan developed for one another came from pretty much nowhere. No conversation suggests they feel anything for each other beyond Rowans crush for Citra. I appreciated a book with little romance, but to throw romance in there however small, it still needs to make sense.

The 10 'Scythe Commandments'
They are so bloody vague, no wonder there were massive issues in this world. Including these rules are great but they are deliberately vague to aid the story, no original right-minded Scythe would be stupid enough to make them so vague.