The End of a Hundred Years: Reflections on the Toll by Colleen Hoover

It's been over a hundred years since the world was plagued by the Scythes, a deadly instrument that claimed lives with ruthless efficiency. The people who wielded these scythes were feared and reviled, but as time went on, they began to see their role in a different light. They started to question the morality of taking lives without reason or remorse.

Faraday, one of the Scythes, had always felt a sense of purpose in his work. He would go from house to house, killing those who were deemed unworthy, and he took comfort in knowing that it was his duty. But as time went on, Faraday began to see the toll that this work was taking on him. He saw the fear and resentment that people had towards him, and he knew that he didn't want to be feared or reviled anymore.

So, when Faraday discovered a way to make scythes obsolete, he jumped at the chance to change his ways. He and Anastasia, another Scythe, set out to find a new purpose for themselves. They realized that there was a way to use their skills to help people, rather than harm them. This newfound understanding of their role brought Faraday peace and happiness.

But what if I told you that the founders had left behind a failsafe? A virus that would select completely random people every 20 years, killing them off in order to control the population? It was a sinister plan, one that Faraday and Anastasia never could have imagined. But they soon realized that this plan was exactly what their new purpose was.

With their newfound understanding of the failsafe, Faraday began to visit people's homes when they were dying. He would bring comfort to those who were about to pass on, helping them to go peacefully. It was a task that was both beautiful and heartbreaking, but one that Faraday was determined to see through.

As for the other Scythes, they had their own struggles to come to terms with their new role. Neil Shuster, in particular, had a hard time letting go of his old ways. He was hesitant to give up the power and control that came with being a Scythe. But eventually, he too saw the error of his ways and began to work alongside Faraday.

The Thunderhead, an AI system created by Fender, was a game-changer for the world. It brought about a new era of peace and understanding, one in which people were valued and respected rather than feared and reviled. The Thunderhead was a hero, one that would have been unimaginable to many.

When Grayson began to interact with the Thunderhead, she was met with resistance from those who did not understand its power. But as she learned more about it, she came to realize just how amazing it was. The Thunderhead had brought people together, helping them to see the world in a new and different light. It was a system that was both beautiful and terrifying, but one that Grayson was determined to protect.

As for me, I am still reeling from the impact of this series. It was so good, so well-written, and so full of depth and emotion. The ending was phenomenal, wrapping everything up in a neat and tidy bow. I didn't see it coming, but I'm not mad about it. In fact, I'm happy that Colleen Hoover decided to take the characters on this journey.

The Toll is a testament to the power of human connection and empathy. It shows us that even in the darkest of times, there is always hope for redemption and forgiveness. The series is a reminder that we are all connected, and that our actions have consequences.

So, if you're looking for a book series that will make you laugh, cry, and feel all the feels, then look no further than The Toll by Colleen Hoover. It's a journey that will take you to the depths of human emotion and back again, leaving you changed forever.

In conclusion, I want to thank all of my viewers for watching and engaging with me on this video. Your thoughts and opinions are what make this series so special, and I'm grateful to have such an amazing community behind me. If you've read The Toll, I'd love to hear your thoughts on the ending. Did you love it as much as I did? Share your thoughts in the comments below.

So, that's all for today's video. I hope you enjoyed it, and I'll see you in my next video.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello everyone today I am here to talk all about the third book in the arc of the size series of the tõll tõll is the third book and final book in the arc of the sighs series by Neal Shusterman I would share the first two books but I don't have them right now my sister-in-law's barring them because I've gotten her obsessed with a series just as much as I have so I have read the first two weirdly enough I have not done a review on either those books which is really odd because there's some of my favorite books of all time okay so what this video is going to be is my review of this series overall and then I will get into in depth spoilers about the toll at the very very end so just so you know so if you heard about arc in the sides and I'm sure you have because it has really exploded here on booktube over the past few years I'm gonna tell you what it's about and see if you would like to read it so the first book we have sighs which is right here this book is about a dystopian future where we have conquered pretty much everything we've conquered hunger famine poverty even death like the world is just a peaceful place and it's all thanks to this AI system called the thunderheads so with this since we have conquered death we have to control the population because obviously if nobody dies there's just an influx of people all the times then with that we have sighs and so I feel just regular humans that are trained and they glean people which pretty much means they kill people and they use the term for gleaning now if you're innocent if you are a side it is a very honorable thing you have this robe you're in the sytem there's these rules and regulations you have to follow but each side is very different of how they glean aka kill people pretty much so basically in the first book we learned all about the scythe time um you follow two main characters names Citra and roe and hey get selected to be apprentices to be a side and they study under a size called size faraday and they learn basically of how he cleans people of how the side of works all together and things like that so the first book I really loved I read it a long time ago I believe I rated it a four out of five when I first read it but looking back on it I primary two five out of five I just loved the book so much so I'd say if you're interested in dystopian futures and this sounds interesting to you I would highly recommend check outside because it's just an action-packed book and what's interesting is the whole side of how it works of how you have to do these rules of how you glean people you can't obviously target a certain culture or race or things that you have to be completely you have to be completely unbiased you have to select people who you think and like I say each size and you'll learn this more into the series gleans people differently they select people differently we learn about Faraday's method and he really researches on the computer into the thunders back brain because I should also mention that the Thunderhead who is this AI system who's very all-encompassing very smart he can talk like directly in your head imagine that so Thunder head does not any sort of sway over the side them does not talk to the side them at all does not communicate with this item basically they're two separate things the Thunderhead can control like the weather and you know things like that could talk to people but when it comes to the side time he's completely cut off like there's nothing he can do about it they're two separate entities if you will and Faraday has to research of how to glean people he goes on the Sutter heads back broom which is like kind of research any researches about which people to select and they pull Citra and rowe went into this and by the way centrum Rowan are really excited to be sighs I don't think anybody really is up to being sized because usually you know when you see a size they're like oh I'm going to be cleaned and things like that and it's gonna be the end of me forever so the whole book is about Citroen Roland and their feelings about being on about being apprentices in the very end of the book we get these trials and whoever you know is wins will be the actual size Weatherby Citra over one so sign is just an amazing book the first book really talks about this item and how each side does things differently and you learn more about the rules and things like that so I loved it I would highly recommend it like I said I know it's got a ton of buzz it's one of the most buzzed-about series and I will say I stand behind it I did read it I want to say back in like 2015 when it first came out and when I read it was first starting to get a lot of buzz it wasn't like fully fully hyped up quite yet but I loved it so much so so I really recommend would highly recommend you read so Thunderhead I don't want to spoil anything for you if you just wanna hear about the series Thunderhead really talks about you guys to the Sun your head so the first book we really delve into the scythe demand figuring out you know how they do things what are the rules what different size are things like that the Thunderhead really you learn more about the actual Thunderhead ai ai ai ai ai forget this AI system that can control everything pretty much you learn about you know why they do things how they can talk to people you follow a plethora of characters you also get introduced to some size that are really scary I will say like the true villain probably gets really introduced in the second book and it's very very jarring in my opinion but the second book I think is my favorite in the whole series I gave it 5 out of 5 I loved it like when I read side I loved it and I don't think I gained 5 at the time because it wasn't quite there for me yet but Thunder head was Thunder head was everything I wanted to more it was action-packed it made me think about things which Neal Schusterman does he really weaves in political things cultural things even religion which I'm still hesitant about because I am religious but he puts in all of that stuff and it makes you think constantly like when you're reading it you're like put these parallels together and it makes you think all the time which I love mr. stream and he's a very skilled writer he's obviously we're in a ton of series and you know this series does get a little jarring at times but the decisions people make and the decision that these sighs make you think that this is not a rational or well thought out thing at all like these people are kind of insane and you really see that play out with underhell with a certain side and it gets very scary like it's just like whoa but Thunderhead I love so I say the first books I really focuses on the side and the second books under head really focuses on the Thunderhead hence why you have the titles well before I get into the tol and tell you about my feelings about it I love this series when I recommend you read it highly I noticed opiate is not as popular as it once was when I first started booktube dystopian was like the JM everybody who's anybody was reading dystopian then it kind of filtering off and then fantasy became more in the forefront dystopian still there but I don't think he gets read quite as much as just your standard fantasy parents say the arc of the size series is a great dystopian series it's gonna make you think it's gonna keep you on your feet you're never gonna know what's coming because Neal Shusterman weaves and all of these things and you don't get to see them play out till the end and it's amazing how he does that and it's just such an intricate and interesting series that I think if you're a reader that reads it at 14 or if your reader like me that reads it at 31 could get a lot from it so would highly recommend this series definitely one of my favorite trilogy is in series of all time would highly recommend it so when we're talking about the toll I'm gonna tell you my brief thoughts without spoiling it before I get back Joe spoilers so this talk this book is a beast it is like 640 pages I don't know how big Thunderhead was but I know it was definitely not as big as this one so when I first got it I was a little bit you know scared because she's a thick one but I really enjoyed it but I didn't quite love it I know you're like oh why do you love the series so much we didn't love the final book and here's why the first 200 pages were really dull for me in my opinion I was kind of like really struggling to get through them if I'm honest with you I just was kind of bored they had to lay a lot of you know groundwork because when it comes to series you have to kind of you know remind people of things and the previous books in case you haven't read it which I don't reread series which I don't reread books which is probably not the best thing first 200 pages were kind of you know a lot of groundwork also some of our favorite characters weren't in the first 200 pages which i think is also I start with the first 200 pages because we kept getting introduced to like these new people that I personally do not care about the time I'm like I don't know you we're in the last book I don't have time for this why are you being introduced in the last book because I don't care but after the first 200 pages it picks up and it picks up fast like I've read this book within five days I think I've days a lot for me for 640 pages I'm a kind of a slow reader now because mom life and busy life but after those first two 200 page after those first 200 pages I could not stop I just read it whatever I can I was invested a got it got picked up fast especially that the middle and towards the end action freak impact I did not know what was coming so I gave it a 4 out of 5 just because I have be honest if I really wanted to I can give it a five out of five but those first two hundred pages really kind of affected my reading in my opinion I just don't think they were amazing and I understand that they you know I understand that neo Schusterman made these new characters and who understands the importance of that by the end of the book but for the first 200 pages I said really kind of affected my rating things like that overall I still love the book I still love the series it was amazing just if I have to be honest with you at the first 200 pages really kind of meander a little bit for me so that did affect my rating which is why I'm giving it a four out of five before you know I talk about two pillars like I said if you were starting the toll and you're like oh do I love it or not I do really enjoy it I would highly recommend it I think it was a great conclusion to a series I'm sad to see the series end so in case you know you're reading it and you're like man you're like these first two pages are really slow it picks up I promise it gets amazing I promise you for all this series is phenomenal I'm very sad to see it go it definitely makes me want to read more MIOSHA Sherman's work because he has a ton of titles under his belt and I want to read them all but I love arc of the science series these characters will stick with me forever it's gonna be one of my favorite trilogies of all time and I want to recommend it to everybody because it's such an interesting series a book about a future or conquer thing that we have these sides and they glean people and we have a Thunderhead like there's so many intricate parts to it that all add up and is all just amazing so yeah I'll gush about the series a lot and everybody else probably will catch about it because it's very overhyped but in my opinion I think it's worth the hype and that's just my opinion take it with a grain of salt if you want to so let's talk about some spoilers it's been a week since I finished this so I could have forgotten chains because if you guys don't know already my memory is just this but we're gonna try to talk about the ending and things like that so if you have not read the toll please do not watch any further and also if you have not read the toll yet or maybe even any of these books I would love to hear if you are going to read this series now that I've talked about it did it spark your interest at all are you still gonna stay away with it or have you read a book in this series and you're like oh if I want to continue on I just want to hear your thoughts about it before I go into spoilers so leave them in the comments below so let's talk all about the toll spoiler time like they said the first turn of Ages I didn't love because mainly Citra and rowan were still in Endura and this like steel box thing and I was like where are they I need them right now that was my main problem with the first 200 pages which makes sense because they're there they have to be you know brought up from the salvage ship of Giri who was a new character that at first I was like I don't care about Jerri I don't care about them but Giri became a very vital part in the whole series in my opinion and I really loved reading about them a ton so but at the beginning I was like Jerry who who and then we also have Faraday and we also have I forget her name Marina I want to say they're in the Land of Nod there's actually a forum so Nicole and I'm not because they're figuring out that there's the size thing there and they're stuck because they need to size rings to open the door and Faraday only has one and then basically also the Thunderhead has deemed everybody unsavory but he still talks to Grayson exclusively so he the Thunderhead figures out a way to like communicate with people but not directly because they are unsavory because he can't community with them directly and he sends I don't have to look at the book a lot for names because I'm not bad at it Lorena I want to say is her name he sends her and a whole bunch of a team to to nod and to build something and you don't know what it is quite yeah it doesn't get revealed to the end of the book but he has these grand plans for this island that no one knows about quit essentially and he puts this team to work and basically he can't talk to them but they can be like we need some tomatoes and fruit and they can just say it to thin air or maybe they can communicate with like this Telegraph thing or a code and he will send it to them so we're on this land faraday's kind of struggling because he doesn't know what to do because he needs to go into the store to figure out more about the size and that the you know the founding size and more information about them and then we also have the thunderheads team kind of like building this huge structure on this land and you're like what the crap is it and then we also have Jerry we have another side I want to say I forget his name sighs Pete I'm just gonna call they uncover Rowan and Citra finally yeah we're all there we're like yeah Rho integer finally you know they're but they're separated as soon as they get product because that is the true torture of Neal Shusterman always putting our carrot far away from each other it's not fair enough basically sighs Anastasia is her name Citra I'm just gonna call her because that's what I know whereas um she gets hidden and then she has to really work up and then she starts doing these broadcast about really you know uncovering Goddard and uncovering the true sickness of him like when you get introduced to Goddard in the second book you hate him so much and then when you get to this book you hate him even more the one gleaning he does where he kills thirty thousand people like that was when I was like I have never wanted I've never like disliked and hated a character more I think than like Voldemort in a series because he was just the true definition of evil he was like honestly whenever I read about him I just thought of Hitler the entire time because of what he did he targeted a you know a culture and a race he like he wanted to kill he wanted to kill people in mass quantities it was just horrendous to read about like Goddard was an amazing villain because the way Neil Schusterman wrote him of how much he glowed than how much he hated him he was phenomenally written I'll tell you that but I hated him so much you have Goddard he's like the freaking I don't know what it's called but he's like the boss boss of all the scythes in Mid America pretty much and he's getting people to fall under his ranks and you're just like who would follow this sick man who would which you can also be led into politics much like today if you want to do the parallels which I'm not gonna get into I'm not a politic illan I don't like talking about it and things like that so let's keep that free in the comments of today's and how they compare and things like that we don't know exactly I'm just whenever I think of Goddard honest I think of Hitler okay I just want to be honest with that but um we have him and we have people following him some people are starting to really not like him and it's getting pretty bad and we also have Rowan who gets into the guards possession and then he basically I'm gonna fast-forward to the end we learn that the Thunderhead is building like this colony of spaceships and stuff to go to a different planet to repopulate this planet because we learned back in the when Goddard was just a really beginning size that they went to like the moon or another planet forgive me on that and they gleaned a whole bunch of like people and stuff like that to make it like kind of the whole planet uncolonized because they knew that if we went and moved to a different planet that we wouldn't need size anymore and they didn't want that at all that would have been a bad thing for them so they decided Goddard and some other size decided let's glean these people and then the Thunderhead can't really be you know involved with it because there are separate things the Thunderhead can't control what the side does and can't have any business with it and then we could just say this planet was unpopular like uncolonized so you can't really go to it so they can continue to do their sides business and you know you in on earth pretty much and that will reveal like i was just like wow didn't see it coming didn't expect it I thought it was phenomenally done and I can't believe that the thunderheads rebuttal like just kind of he broke the rules he broke his own rules he broke everything and he's like you know know I'm minutes under hoods just idea was to build these rocket ships go to a different planet colonize it was all of the glean tonus to her killed and put different memories in them of people that were alive like way back in the day which is just what just I can't believe it Gately that happened and finally I think my favorite part of the whole series is when Brandt find-a-code Goddard I've been waiting for ran to do that forever like I just I've been waiting with bated breath since the second book you saw ran and you saw that she's not the best but she's got some sort of smartness in her she knew things were wrong she knew things with Goddard were not going very well and especially the whole tiger thing like taiga I feel weird saying taiga oh she had feelings for him and then got her you know pretty much killed tiger and uses body and just put his head on tiger and used tiger's body to live which is just dire it's what and then at the end rant finally gets her head back on straight and she kills Goddard finally thank goodness and then she awakens tiger and I think it's pretty much tiger's body but he has a different head and it's just that that's going to interesting on it plays out but I was I think we all were clapping a freaking ton when that happened when Goddard finally when brand finally Co got her like I'm letting that forever so we have the end that happened and then we have Citra get really injured and the thunderheads basically says that our because these robots now I think what's called serous that he can't but they can't do anything for right now they're gonna have to you know put her to sleep for like 120 years till we land then he can officially like you know revitalize her and things like that and Roland's like crap I want to be put down with her and I don't want her to be alone and then he changes his mind and he's like okay I'll stay awake for these hundred twenty years but I'm gonna turn back a corner at the end which I'm just like these people never get a frickin happy and doing like Citroen drone are always apart you never see them together like ever except for in the first book after that it's pretty much dirtier alone like they're always thinking about each other but they had to do their own crap because they're both battle in their own battles and then finally at the end we see them together they're gonna go live on a planet together with all these people and then Citroen gets like hurt and killed pretty much and I'm just like but then at the very end citrus finally awakened she sees role in and there's like a different moon and like things look different rome looks different he she's like how long it's been he's like not very long at all but it's been a hundred years and the dudes waited for her and that ain't true love I don't know it is so am i happy they got a peachy ending yeah I'm happy because they went through a freaking lot whenever there is a pretty good ending and a very dystopian dark series I'm okay with a lot honestly because I've seen the characters suffer enough that I'm like they deserve this so there's that also another at the very last day a couple of things is the size M so when Faraday and Anastasia Citra opened the door they figure out that there's this thing you could do with the size that the founding size put together and you can I don't know if it's a button or whatever they reenact it or they enacted so basically it eliminates the need for size and which is why it's kind of like a fail-safe they don't want to have to use it do they ever have to use it and nobody really wanted to know about it you know especially daughter and people that really love to kill people to kill people which is the whole thing about the size in itself of what you should have the authority to kill people or not uh but anyway so this failsafe pretty much means that there is this virus that's gonna go through and select completely random people every 20 years and it might be like the measles cancer things like that things like human viruses and they're just gonna die unfortunately and that is gonna be the way to control the population this will happen once every twenty years and that's the way to keep the population at bay which is why we won't need scythes anymore so now Faraday when he goes to people's houses that are dying when the door opens he does not get faced with a lot of fear and resentment he actually gets welcomed in and comforted because he is going to bring comfort to the ones that are dying and he's gonna help them you know die peacefully and not in pain and people now sighs are really revered and really loved because they bring comfort to the dying and that is something that Faraday's decided to start doing other sighs have really been on board with the noose I've done which is like the old noose I've done are really not up worth because like they were in it for the killing and I really loved how Neil Shuster minted that how he made the size kind of inactive and didn't want them anymore but instead made them comfort the dying and made them a good thing at the end and not killing people but helping them go peacefully so I love that the ending was phenomenal the Thunder had - oh my goodness when he took over Jerry's body I was just when they took over Jerry's body I was like this is not okay but when the Thunder head was feeling their feelings with Jerry like seeing things and how beautiful it was and how they could have been shellfish like this is probably the first book where an AI system like was actually pretty good I was very nervous about it the entire time I was thinking like they were gonna do a religious thing with like Kim being the goddess but I'm glad they'd really didn't do that in my opinion I don't think it went off I thought fender had really made very conscious of very well decisions for an AI system usually that gets botched up very very quickly and like sci-fi and dystopian books but Thunderhead it was like the hero of it all who would have thunk it but it happened like put all these people on a different planet he made I was just it was amazing so when yeah and then jeer and then when Grayson you know talked to Thunder head said I don't think I can talk to me or be she took over Jerry's body and they didn't accept that and you know I deem you as unsavory now and I was like I felt really Thunderhead but I also felt very proud of grace then which is a long video because there's a lot to unpack in the toll and I didn't even get you a bunch of it there was just so much going on overall I love this series I would highly recommend I would love to hear your thoughts on the toll did you love the ending as much as I did because it yes it did wrap it up in a nice neat bow which I wasn't expecting his new Schusterman okay kind of gut she sent repentance with writing so I wasn't expecting that but I'm happy because all of her characters went through a lot and yeah I would love to hear your thoughts about it I so sad this series is over because it was so so good but I'm so so happy to have read it so yeah share with me all your thoughts down below thank you guys for watching and I'll see you my next video byehello everyone today I am here to talk all about the third book in the arc of the size series of the tõll tõll is the third book and final book in the arc of the sighs series by Neal Shusterman I would share the first two books but I don't have them right now my sister-in-law's barring them because I've gotten her obsessed with a series just as much as I have so I have read the first two weirdly enough I have not done a review on either those books which is really odd because there's some of my favorite books of all time okay so what this video is going to be is my review of this series overall and then I will get into in depth spoilers about the toll at the very very end so just so you know so if you heard about arc in the sides and I'm sure you have because it has really exploded here on booktube over the past few years I'm gonna tell you what it's about and see if you would like to read it so the first book we have sighs which is right here this book is about a dystopian future where we have conquered pretty much everything we've conquered hunger famine poverty even death like the world is just a peaceful place and it's all thanks to this AI system called the thunderheads so with this since we have conquered death we have to control the population because obviously if nobody dies there's just an influx of people all the times then with that we have sighs and so I feel just regular humans that are trained and they glean people which pretty much means they kill people and they use the term for gleaning now if you're innocent if you are a side it is a very honorable thing you have this robe you're in the sytem there's these rules and regulations you have to follow but each side is very different of how they glean aka kill people pretty much so basically in the first book we learned all about the scythe time um you follow two main characters names Citra and roe and hey get selected to be apprentices to be a side and they study under a size called size faraday and they learn basically of how he cleans people of how the side of works all together and things like that so the first book I really loved I read it a long time ago I believe I rated it a four out of five when I first read it but looking back on it I primary two five out of five I just loved the book so much so I'd say if you're interested in dystopian futures and this sounds interesting to you I would highly recommend check outside because it's just an action-packed book and what's interesting is the whole side of how it works of how you have to do these rules of how you glean people you can't obviously target a certain culture or race or things that you have to be completely you have to be completely unbiased you have to select people who you think and like I say each size and you'll learn this more into the series gleans people differently they select people differently we learn about Faraday's method and he really researches on the computer into the thunders back brain because I should also mention that the Thunderhead who is this AI system who's very all-encompassing very smart he can talk like directly in your head imagine that so Thunder head does not any sort of sway over the side them does not talk to the side them at all does not communicate with this item basically they're two separate things the Thunderhead can control like the weather and you know things like that could talk to people but when it comes to the side time he's completely cut off like there's nothing he can do about it they're two separate entities if you will and Faraday has to research of how to glean people he goes on the Sutter heads back broom which is like kind of research any researches about which people to select and they pull Citra and rowe went into this and by the way centrum Rowan are really excited to be sighs I don't think anybody really is up to being sized because usually you know when you see a size they're like oh I'm going to be cleaned and things like that and it's gonna be the end of me forever so the whole book is about Citroen Roland and their feelings about being on about being apprentices in the very end of the book we get these trials and whoever you know is wins will be the actual size Weatherby Citra over one so sign is just an amazing book the first book really talks about this item and how each side does things differently and you learn more about the rules and things like that so I loved it I would highly recommend it like I said I know it's got a ton of buzz it's one of the most buzzed-about series and I will say I stand behind it I did read it I want to say back in like 2015 when it first came out and when I read it was first starting to get a lot of buzz it wasn't like fully fully hyped up quite yet but I loved it so much so so I really recommend would highly recommend you read so Thunderhead I don't want to spoil anything for you if you just wanna hear about the series Thunderhead really talks about you guys to the Sun your head so the first book we really delve into the scythe demand figuring out you know how they do things what are the rules what different size are things like that the Thunderhead really you learn more about the actual Thunderhead ai ai ai ai ai forget this AI system that can control everything pretty much you learn about you know why they do things how they can talk to people you follow a plethora of characters you also get introduced to some size that are really scary I will say like the true villain probably gets really introduced in the second book and it's very very jarring in my opinion but the second book I think is my favorite in the whole series I gave it 5 out of 5 I loved it like when I read side I loved it and I don't think I gained 5 at the time because it wasn't quite there for me yet but Thunder head was Thunder head was everything I wanted to more it was action-packed it made me think about things which Neal Schusterman does he really weaves in political things cultural things even religion which I'm still hesitant about because I am religious but he puts in all of that stuff and it makes you think constantly like when you're reading it you're like put these parallels together and it makes you think all the time which I love mr. stream and he's a very skilled writer he's obviously we're in a ton of series and you know this series does get a little jarring at times but the decisions people make and the decision that these sighs make you think that this is not a rational or well thought out thing at all like these people are kind of insane and you really see that play out with underhell with a certain side and it gets very scary like it's just like whoa but Thunderhead I love so I say the first books I really focuses on the side and the second books under head really focuses on the Thunderhead hence why you have the titles well before I get into the tol and tell you about my feelings about it I love this series when I recommend you read it highly I noticed opiate is not as popular as it once was when I first started booktube dystopian was like the JM everybody who's anybody was reading dystopian then it kind of filtering off and then fantasy became more in the forefront dystopian still there but I don't think he gets read quite as much as just your standard fantasy parents say the arc of the size series is a great dystopian series it's gonna make you think it's gonna keep you on your feet you're never gonna know what's coming because Neal Shusterman weaves and all of these things and you don't get to see them play out till the end and it's amazing how he does that and it's just such an intricate and interesting series that I think if you're a reader that reads it at 14 or if your reader like me that reads it at 31 could get a lot from it so would highly recommend this series definitely one of my favorite trilogy is in series of all time would highly recommend it so when we're talking about the toll I'm gonna tell you my brief thoughts without spoiling it before I get back Joe spoilers so this talk this book is a beast it is like 640 pages I don't know how big Thunderhead was but I know it was definitely not as big as this one so when I first got it I was a little bit you know scared because she's a thick one but I really enjoyed it but I didn't quite love it I know you're like oh why do you love the series so much we didn't love the final book and here's why the first 200 pages were really dull for me in my opinion I was kind of like really struggling to get through them if I'm honest with you I just was kind of bored they had to lay a lot of you know groundwork because when it comes to series you have to kind of you know remind people of things and the previous books in case you haven't read it which I don't reread series which I don't reread books which is probably not the best thing first 200 pages were kind of you know a lot of groundwork also some of our favorite characters weren't in the first 200 pages which i think is also I start with the first 200 pages because we kept getting introduced to like these new people that I personally do not care about the time I'm like I don't know you we're in the last book I don't have time for this why are you being introduced in the last book because I don't care but after the first 200 pages it picks up and it picks up fast like I've read this book within five days I think I've days a lot for me for 640 pages I'm a kind of a slow reader now because mom life and busy life but after those first two 200 page after those first 200 pages I could not stop I just read it whatever I can I was invested a got it got picked up fast especially that the middle and towards the end action freak impact I did not know what was coming so I gave it a 4 out of 5 just because I have be honest if I really wanted to I can give it a five out of five but those first two hundred pages really kind of affected my reading in my opinion I just don't think they were amazing and I understand that they you know I understand that neo Schusterman made these new characters and who understands the importance of that by the end of the book but for the first 200 pages I said really kind of affected my rating things like that overall I still love the book I still love the series it was amazing just if I have to be honest with you at the first 200 pages really kind of meander a little bit for me so that did affect my rating which is why I'm giving it a four out of five before you know I talk about two pillars like I said if you were starting the toll and you're like oh do I love it or not I do really enjoy it I would highly recommend it I think it was a great conclusion to a series I'm sad to see the series end so in case you know you're reading it and you're like man you're like these first two pages are really slow it picks up I promise it gets amazing I promise you for all this series is phenomenal I'm very sad to see it go it definitely makes me want to read more MIOSHA Sherman's work because he has a ton of titles under his belt and I want to read them all but I love arc of the science series these characters will stick with me forever it's gonna be one of my favorite trilogies of all time and I want to recommend it to everybody because it's such an interesting series a book about a future or conquer thing that we have these sides and they glean people and we have a Thunderhead like there's so many intricate parts to it that all add up and is all just amazing so yeah I'll gush about the series a lot and everybody else probably will catch about it because it's very overhyped but in my opinion I think it's worth the hype and that's just my opinion take it with a grain of salt if you want to so let's talk about some spoilers it's been a week since I finished this so I could have forgotten chains because if you guys don't know already my memory is just this but we're gonna try to talk about the ending and things like that so if you have not read the toll please do not watch any further and also if you have not read the toll yet or maybe even any of these books I would love to hear if you are going to read this series now that I've talked about it did it spark your interest at all are you still gonna stay away with it or have you read a book in this series and you're like oh if I want to continue on I just want to hear your thoughts about it before I go into spoilers so leave them in the comments below so let's talk all about the toll spoiler time like they said the first turn of Ages I didn't love because mainly Citra and rowan were still in Endura and this like steel box thing and I was like where are they I need them right now that was my main problem with the first 200 pages which makes sense because they're there they have to be you know brought up from the salvage ship of Giri who was a new character that at first I was like I don't care about Jerri I don't care about them but Giri became a very vital part in the whole series in my opinion and I really loved reading about them a ton so but at the beginning I was like Jerry who who and then we also have Faraday and we also have I forget her name Marina I want to say they're in the Land of Nod there's actually a forum so Nicole and I'm not because they're figuring out that there's the size thing there and they're stuck because they need to size rings to open the door and Faraday only has one and then basically also the Thunderhead has deemed everybody unsavory but he still talks to Grayson exclusively so he the Thunderhead figures out a way to like communicate with people but not directly because they are unsavory because he can't community with them directly and he sends I don't have to look at the book a lot for names because I'm not bad at it Lorena I want to say is her name he sends her and a whole bunch of a team to to nod and to build something and you don't know what it is quite yeah it doesn't get revealed to the end of the book but he has these grand plans for this island that no one knows about quit essentially and he puts this team to work and basically he can't talk to them but they can be like we need some tomatoes and fruit and they can just say it to thin air or maybe they can communicate with like this Telegraph thing or a code and he will send it to them so we're on this land faraday's kind of struggling because he doesn't know what to do because he needs to go into the store to figure out more about the size and that the you know the founding size and more information about them and then we also have the thunderheads team kind of like building this huge structure on this land and you're like what the crap is it and then we also have Jerry we have another side I want to say I forget his name sighs Pete I'm just gonna call they uncover Rowan and Citra finally yeah we're all there we're like yeah Rho integer finally you know they're but they're separated as soon as they get product because that is the true torture of Neal Shusterman always putting our carrot far away from each other it's not fair enough basically sighs Anastasia is her name Citra I'm just gonna call her because that's what I know whereas um she gets hidden and then she has to really work up and then she starts doing these broadcast about really you know uncovering Goddard and uncovering the true sickness of him like when you get introduced to Goddard in the second book you hate him so much and then when you get to this book you hate him even more the one gleaning he does where he kills thirty thousand people like that was when I was like I have never wanted I've never like disliked and hated a character more I think than like Voldemort in a series because he was just the true definition of evil he was like honestly whenever I read about him I just thought of Hitler the entire time because of what he did he targeted a you know a culture and a race he like he wanted to kill he wanted to kill people in mass quantities it was just horrendous to read about like Goddard was an amazing villain because the way Neil Schusterman wrote him of how much he glowed than how much he hated him he was phenomenally written I'll tell you that but I hated him so much you have Goddard he's like the freaking I don't know what it's called but he's like the boss boss of all the scythes in Mid America pretty much and he's getting people to fall under his ranks and you're just like who would follow this sick man who would which you can also be led into politics much like today if you want to do the parallels which I'm not gonna get into I'm not a politic illan I don't like talking about it and things like that so let's keep that free in the comments of today's and how they compare and things like that we don't know exactly I'm just whenever I think of Goddard honest I think of Hitler okay I just want to be honest with that but um we have him and we have people following him some people are starting to really not like him and it's getting pretty bad and we also have Rowan who gets into the guards possession and then he basically I'm gonna fast-forward to the end we learn that the Thunderhead is building like this colony of spaceships and stuff to go to a different planet to repopulate this planet because we learned back in the when Goddard was just a really beginning size that they went to like the moon or another planet forgive me on that and they gleaned a whole bunch of like people and stuff like that to make it like kind of the whole planet uncolonized because they knew that if we went and moved to a different planet that we wouldn't need size anymore and they didn't want that at all that would have been a bad thing for them so they decided Goddard and some other size decided let's glean these people and then the Thunderhead can't really be you know involved with it because there are separate things the Thunderhead can't control what the side does and can't have any business with it and then we could just say this planet was unpopular like uncolonized so you can't really go to it so they can continue to do their sides business and you know you in on earth pretty much and that will reveal like i was just like wow didn't see it coming didn't expect it I thought it was phenomenally done and I can't believe that the thunderheads rebuttal like just kind of he broke the rules he broke his own rules he broke everything and he's like you know know I'm minutes under hoods just idea was to build these rocket ships go to a different planet colonize it was all of the glean tonus to her killed and put different memories in them of people that were alive like way back in the day which is just what just I can't believe it Gately that happened and finally I think my favorite part of the whole series is when Brandt find-a-code Goddard I've been waiting for ran to do that forever like I just I've been waiting with bated breath since the second book you saw ran and you saw that she's not the best but she's got some sort of smartness in her she knew things were wrong she knew things with Goddard were not going very well and especially the whole tiger thing like taiga I feel weird saying taiga oh she had feelings for him and then got her you know pretty much killed tiger and uses body and just put his head on tiger and used tiger's body to live which is just dire it's what and then at the end rant finally gets her head back on straight and she kills Goddard finally thank goodness and then she awakens tiger and I think it's pretty much tiger's body but he has a different head and it's just that that's going to interesting on it plays out but I was I think we all were clapping a freaking ton when that happened when Goddard finally when brand finally Co got her like I'm letting that forever so we have the end that happened and then we have Citra get really injured and the thunderheads basically says that our because these robots now I think what's called serous that he can't but they can't do anything for right now they're gonna have to you know put her to sleep for like 120 years till we land then he can officially like you know revitalize her and things like that and Roland's like crap I want to be put down with her and I don't want her to be alone and then he changes his mind and he's like okay I'll stay awake for these hundred twenty years but I'm gonna turn back a corner at the end which I'm just like these people never get a frickin happy and doing like Citroen drone are always apart you never see them together like ever except for in the first book after that it's pretty much dirtier alone like they're always thinking about each other but they had to do their own crap because they're both battle in their own battles and then finally at the end we see them together they're gonna go live on a planet together with all these people and then Citroen gets like hurt and killed pretty much and I'm just like but then at the very end citrus finally awakened she sees role in and there's like a different moon and like things look different rome looks different he she's like how long it's been he's like not very long at all but it's been a hundred years and the dudes waited for her and that ain't true love I don't know it is so am i happy they got a peachy ending yeah I'm happy because they went through a freaking lot whenever there is a pretty good ending and a very dystopian dark series I'm okay with a lot honestly because I've seen the characters suffer enough that I'm like they deserve this so there's that also another at the very last day a couple of things is the size M so when Faraday and Anastasia Citra opened the door they figure out that there's this thing you could do with the size that the founding size put together and you can I don't know if it's a button or whatever they reenact it or they enacted so basically it eliminates the need for size and which is why it's kind of like a fail-safe they don't want to have to use it do they ever have to use it and nobody really wanted to know about it you know especially daughter and people that really love to kill people to kill people which is the whole thing about the size in itself of what you should have the authority to kill people or not uh but anyway so this failsafe pretty much means that there is this virus that's gonna go through and select completely random people every 20 years and it might be like the measles cancer things like that things like human viruses and they're just gonna die unfortunately and that is gonna be the way to control the population this will happen once every twenty years and that's the way to keep the population at bay which is why we won't need scythes anymore so now Faraday when he goes to people's houses that are dying when the door opens he does not get faced with a lot of fear and resentment he actually gets welcomed in and comforted because he is going to bring comfort to the ones that are dying and he's gonna help them you know die peacefully and not in pain and people now sighs are really revered and really loved because they bring comfort to the dying and that is something that Faraday's decided to start doing other sighs have really been on board with the noose I've done which is like the old noose I've done are really not up worth because like they were in it for the killing and I really loved how Neil Shuster minted that how he made the size kind of inactive and didn't want them anymore but instead made them comfort the dying and made them a good thing at the end and not killing people but helping them go peacefully so I love that the ending was phenomenal the Thunder had - oh my goodness when he took over Jerry's body I was just when they took over Jerry's body I was like this is not okay but when the Thunder head was feeling their feelings with Jerry like seeing things and how beautiful it was and how they could have been shellfish like this is probably the first book where an AI system like was actually pretty good I was very nervous about it the entire time I was thinking like they were gonna do a religious thing with like Kim being the goddess but I'm glad they'd really didn't do that in my opinion I don't think it went off I thought fender had really made very conscious of very well decisions for an AI system usually that gets botched up very very quickly and like sci-fi and dystopian books but Thunderhead it was like the hero of it all who would have thunk it but it happened like put all these people on a different planet he made I was just it was amazing so when yeah and then jeer and then when Grayson you know talked to Thunder head said I don't think I can talk to me or be she took over Jerry's body and they didn't accept that and you know I deem you as unsavory now and I was like I felt really Thunderhead but I also felt very proud of grace then which is a long video because there's a lot to unpack in the toll and I didn't even get you a bunch of it there was just so much going on overall I love this series I would highly recommend I would love to hear your thoughts on the toll did you love the ending as much as I did because it yes it did wrap it up in a nice neat bow which I wasn't expecting his new Schusterman okay kind of gut she sent repentance with writing so I wasn't expecting that but I'm happy because all of her characters went through a lot and yeah I would love to hear your thoughts about it I so sad this series is over because it was so so good but I'm so so happy to have read it so yeah share with me all your thoughts down below thank you guys for watching and I'll see you my next video bye\n"