Unwind by Neal Shusterman

     

     Have you ever wondered what it would feel like to be Unravelled alive? How about Undone?  Or maybe Unwound? That's what this sci-fi book is about. This book is full of adventure.  

    

     In this novel, there is something called being Unwound. This process is kind of like an organ donor to the extreme. Not just organs, but everything is separated and ready to give away.  They have to use 98% of your body to donate to others. Have a leg crushed in a car accident? No problem. Just get a new one from an unwind. Even your whole brain and blood are used! By law, they cannot unwind you until you are 13-18. Also by law, if you are being unwound, you have to be conscious for the whole process. 

   
     I really enjoyed this high paced book.  This book really questions the natural rights of a human. In fact, before they made the law, America had a "heartland war" over the rights of a human being. Unwinds do not want to be unwound, but they don't really have a choice. If you are unproductive, naughty, or just plain bad, your parents can sign a contract to have you unwound. Once the parents sign it your fate is sealed and they cant change it.

     This is what has happened to two kids. Their names were Conner and Ria.They were going to the "chop shop", but their bus crashed and they are on the run. While that happened, they meet a tithe. A tithe is someone who's parents have ten children, so they grow up being told that there only purpose is to be a tithe.  (if they are religious, one tenth of everything must go to the church!) They are all trying to escape unwinding, and even the tithe, whose name is Lev, begins to question something he has "known" all his life - does he really want to be unwound??

  I would recommend this book to readers who like: Adventure, science fiction, dystopia, and  speculative fiction.

   A quote/add from this book is:   "Do you have a troubled teen? Can’t seem to fit in? Listless and angry? Often prone to fits of impulsive and sometimes dangerous behaviour? Does your teen seem unable to stand living in his or her own skin? It could be more than simple teenage rebellion. Your child may be suffering from Biosystemic Disunification Disorder, or BDD. Well, now there’s hope! Haven Harvest Services has five-star youth camps throughout the nation that will take the angriest, most violent, and dysfunctional sufferers of BDD and carefully ease them into a soothing divided state.

    Call now for a free consultation—counselors are standing by! Haven Harvest Services. When you love them enough to let them go."  

  This quote explains what is going on the book. This is an add to send your teen to Harvest Camps, where they unwind you for other peoples benefit. This is what there society is pretty much based on, and there you have it folks! Unwind.

Written By: Jacob Stevenson