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A deliciously wicked movie! This Michelin star rated movie, this delectable film from the minds of Seth Reiss and Will Tracy brings together the spectacular acting of Hardy Potter alum Ralph Fienes mixed with a certain wow factor from Anya Taylor-Joy, who delivers a compelling and satisfying performance as ‘Margot Mills’, an advantageous young woman who finds herself lumped in with a group of people visiting a world-renowned restaurant, but then must escape when the kitchen becomes Hell’s Kitchen. Now—not to spoil anything—but by the end of this movie I was completely enthralled with Anya Taylor-Joy’s character and was 100% rooting for her. ALSO, the villain of this movie is sympathetic and makes it easy to root for either side, splitting the antagonist—protagonist chart three fold. I highly recommend this movie!!

I HIGHLY recommend The Toll and the entire Arc of a Scythe series to anyone who likes dystopian, epistolary, adventure, fantasy, and sci-fi, because this series has elements of all of them! Now getting into the spoiler-filled portion of this review, The Toll had so many storylines that I enjoyed and that kept me on the edge of my seat for the entire book. Overall, I feel that the only flaw this book has is how rushed the climax and resolution of the book was. I feel that the build up was amazing but when it came to the actual climax, it felt, well, anti-climactic. Rather than a stereotypical final battle, Citra and Rowan essentially ‘give up’ and decide to leave rather than stay and fight. Sure, it all works out in the end, but they don’t know that when they leave. I feel that the climax could have been done better, but Shusterman got where he needed to in the end. The addition of space into the whole scheme of things felt very natural for the series and I enjoyed that it went that route, also tying it back to Godard’s origins. Honestly I had forgotten he was Xenocrates’s apprentice ever since the first book, so I’m glad it reminded me of that. I feel that in his own way, Neal Shusterman put a perfect ending on this series and that everything that needed to happen did happen. I highly recommend and I can’t wait for Gleanings!