Unwind is about post civil war United States. Don’t worry, I wouldn’t be cruel like that to you and not warn you.
I will warn you when I get to the spoilers so you can stop reading. It was such a great reading experience.ĭisclaimer: This is a full series review. But, man, am I glad I decided to read them when I did. One other reason I decided to read it was because I didn’t want to keep them on my shelves unread too long since they were a gift. After those two books, I wanted something I thought I could get through quickly. One was hefty on the heart, and the other was hefty in page numbers. I had just read The Book Thief and Name of the Wind – two hefty books. The synopsis definitely seemed interesting, but because of my YA burnout, I wasn’t particularly in any rush to read the series. This past Christmas, our fellow Girl Plus Book blogger Sarah, sent me her favorite book series ever – The UnWind Dystology. Recently, I have been taking a break from anything YA because it was all becoming so cliché. The same type of characters, the same kind of surroundings, the same obstacles, and the same ending. The more I read YA Dystopian, the more each book seemed to be the same. Naturally, I had to read more dystopian – and YA in general.
(I had read The Giver prior to this, but didn’t consider it to be dystopian at the time.) That trilogy made me go, “WOW!” Behind Harry Potter, this is my favorite book series. As their paths intersect and lives hang in the balance, Shusterman examines serious moral issues in a way that will keep readers turning the pages to see if Connor, Risa, and Lev avoid meeting their untimely ends.The Hunger Games was my first experience with YA Dystopian.
With breath-taking suspense, this book follows three teens who all become runaway Unwinds: Connor, a rebel whose parents have ordered his unwinding Risa, a ward of the state who is to be unwound due to cost-cutting and Lev, his parents' tenth child whose unwinding has been planned since birth as a religious tithing.
Now a common and accepted practice in society, troublesome or unwanted teens are able to easily be unwound. Between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, however, a parent may choose to retroactively get rid of a child through a process called "unwinding." Unwinding ensures that the child's life doesn't 'technically' end by transplanting all the organs in the child's body to various recipients. In America after the Second Civil War, the Pro-Choice and Pro-Life armies came to an agreement: The Bill of Life states that human life may not be touched from the moment of conception until a child reaches the age of thirteen.
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