Sickle Book, Paperback Book, By: Neil Shusterman

The Sickle by Neil Shusterman. In a world without hunger, disease, or war, humans have overcome all forms of misery, even eradicating death itself. The only way for humans to die is by being harvested, that is, killed. The task of controlling the population falls to a select few called “scythes, ” who have the freedom to choose to harvest whomever they deem worthy. Citra and Rowan are chosen - against their will - to learn the craft of taking people's lives at the hands of Faraday's machete, and they are aware that the consequence of their failure is the loss of their lives. Then they get involved in a power struggle between scythes with different visions, and they learn that the ideal world in which they live has a heavy price.