Friday, November 4, 2016

Unwind (Unwind Dystology #1) by Neal Shusterman

Unwind
(Unwind Dystology #1)
Neal Shusterman
YA Dystopia
Paperback, 335 pages
27th September 2012 by Simon & Schuster

Goodreads Ratings: 4.19/5
My Rating: 4.5/5




The Second Civil War was fought over reproductive rights. The chilling resolution: Life is inviolable from the moment of conception until age thirteen. Between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, however, parents can have their child "unwound," whereby all of the child's organs are transplanted into different donors, so life doesn't technically end. Connor is too difficult for his parents to control. Risa, a ward of the state, is not enough to be kept alive. And Lev is a tithe, a child conceived and raised to be unwound. Together, they may have a chance to escape and to survive.






FORGET DIVERGENT, FORGET THE MAZE RUNNER. those are trash, anyway. UNWIND IS MUCH BETTER THAN THAT.


"In a perfect world everything would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is.”

Unwind has a weird concept that the morality bothers me because it's insane. This is a book where unwanted kids below the age 18 are being unwound, hence the term Unwind. Being unwound means that these kids are being eliminated from this world, but having them killed is such a waste on their good and useful body parts. So an idea was formed; why not take these good eyes, ears, arms, kidneys, lungs, teeth-- anything possible, and donate them off to those who need these parts?

DOESNT IT SOUND INTERESTING? Let me answer that for you: IT IS INTERESTING!! AND MORE!!!

I was terrified, bothered, mad, scared throughout this journey, imagining what if that was my fate? What if all these happened to me? This dystopian world created by Shusterman is so close to the world we live in, where Shusterman brought forth the heavy issues (eg: abortion) in his own way.

There's a chapter in which Shusterman brings us through the process of unwinding itself and i swear man, IT WAS HORRIFYING I HAD GOOSEBUMPS I COULDN'T EVEN BREATHE

Unwind is the first book of the Unwind series but it can be read as a standalone, as the ending ends perfectly. I wonder how the next books are gonna be plotted because there isnt any cliffhanger.

This is different from any other dystopian books out there and you. need. to. read. this.


“I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.” 

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