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Connor's parents want to be rid of him because he's a troublemaker. Risa has no parents and is being unwound to cut orphanage costs. Lev's unwinding has been planned since his birth as part of his family's strict religion. Brought together by chance, and kept together through desperation, these three unlikely companions make a harrowing cross-country journey, knowing all the while that their lives are hanging in the balance. If they can survive until their eighteenth birthdays, they can't be harmed. But when every piece of them, from their hands to their hearts, are wanted by a world gone mad, eighteen seems far, far away...
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Set in a not too distant future where unwanted children may be unwound; live in an altered state where 97% of them have been used as donor organs. No one searches for cures anymore, if a body part stops working and you can afford it, you just buy another one. This story is about three young people, who for different reasons are about to be unwound and how fate brings them together.
This story is brilliantly original and well written. Far more chilling than many other books set in the future and an absolute gem of a book.
Have already recommended it to everyone I know. READ IT.
It's also available as an ebook, but not at amazon!
This story is brilliantly original and well written. Far more chilling than many other books set in the future and an absolute gem of a book.
Have already recommended it to everyone I know. READ IT.
It's also available as an ebook, but not at amazon!
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
In his chilling new novel, Neal Shusterman paints a picture of a world where there aren't any cures and doctors, just surgeons and replacements.
Three unwanted teenagers face a fate worse that death -- unwinding. Their bodies will be cut up, and every part of them used, from their brains to their toes. But if they can stay out of the authorities' clutches until the age of eighteen, they just might survive....
The most frightening science fiction novels are always the ones that are most similar to our world. Shusterman doesn't fail to describe how a wrong solution to a modern issue can affect generations to come. Thought-provoking, terrifying, and almost inconceivable, UNWIND will keep you reading late into the night.
Reviewed by: The Compulsive Reader
Three unwanted teenagers face a fate worse that death -- unwinding. Their bodies will be cut up, and every part of them used, from their brains to their toes. But if they can stay out of the authorities' clutches until the age of eighteen, they just might survive....
The most frightening science fiction novels are always the ones that are most similar to our world. Shusterman doesn't fail to describe how a wrong solution to a modern issue can affect generations to come. Thought-provoking, terrifying, and almost inconceivable, UNWIND will keep you reading late into the night.
Reviewed by: The Compulsive Reader
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
(Source: I borrowed a copy of this book.)
16-year-old Connor is destined to be unwound. What's that? Well following a pro-life/pro-choice war, the government passed a new law - abortions are illegal, children are protected `til age 13, but between the ages of 13 and 18 a child can be `unwound' - taken to pieces and re-used in other people. This means that no child actually dies - their constituent parts live on. Yeah right! Tell that to the poor kids being unwound!
Connor messed up a bit when he was younger, Risa was a ward of the state - and there were budget cuts, and Lev was a tithe (his parents were unwinding him as a way to give back to god/ humanity!).
Irrespective of their reasons for being unwound, all three find themselves on the run, and thrown together through circumstance. Finding themselves in unusual circumstances and strange places along the way, they grow in ways they never would have otherwise, and question what being alive or having a soul is really about. But when it comes to the chop, which is worse; to die, or to be unwound?
Wow! That is one of the first things that comes to mind with this book. I absolutely could not put it down, and when I did put it down I couldn't stop thinking about it!
The book has an eerie dystopian setting, which is unsettling in the way that the reasons for the changes in society are ultimately understandable! Which is very scary! The idea of unwinding is sickening, whilst at the same time makes a disgusting sort of sense. Why abort a child that you can allow to grow up, and then harvest for parts? Parts that are desperately needed! And what an interesting argument - if all the parts live on, then has the child really died?
There are loads of questions like this posed in the book; with tricky subjects such as life and death, the human soul, and religion all touched upon. It is truly an emotional experience to get an insight into each childs life and viewpoint, and to see how they view the idea of their own unwinding, and ultimately their own death. It is also interesting to see how much each child is willing to fight to preserve their life, and really does make for an absorbing read.
I have to say that at times I did feel physically sick though - especially the chapter where we follow a child through the operation to be unwound (the child is conscious throughout), especially given the fact that we are told that this child is taken to pieces and ultimately redistributed in just 3 hours 19 minutes. How wrong that an entire life can be disassembled into constituent parts and ultimately ended, in such a clinical fashion, in a little over three hours.
Overall, I enjoyed this book, and the ideas that it provoked, (even the sickening ones) and I think anyone with an interest in young-adult, dystopian stories will really enjoy this.
9 out of 10.
16-year-old Connor is destined to be unwound. What's that? Well following a pro-life/pro-choice war, the government passed a new law - abortions are illegal, children are protected `til age 13, but between the ages of 13 and 18 a child can be `unwound' - taken to pieces and re-used in other people. This means that no child actually dies - their constituent parts live on. Yeah right! Tell that to the poor kids being unwound!
Connor messed up a bit when he was younger, Risa was a ward of the state - and there were budget cuts, and Lev was a tithe (his parents were unwinding him as a way to give back to god/ humanity!).
Irrespective of their reasons for being unwound, all three find themselves on the run, and thrown together through circumstance. Finding themselves in unusual circumstances and strange places along the way, they grow in ways they never would have otherwise, and question what being alive or having a soul is really about. But when it comes to the chop, which is worse; to die, or to be unwound?
Wow! That is one of the first things that comes to mind with this book. I absolutely could not put it down, and when I did put it down I couldn't stop thinking about it!
The book has an eerie dystopian setting, which is unsettling in the way that the reasons for the changes in society are ultimately understandable! Which is very scary! The idea of unwinding is sickening, whilst at the same time makes a disgusting sort of sense. Why abort a child that you can allow to grow up, and then harvest for parts? Parts that are desperately needed! And what an interesting argument - if all the parts live on, then has the child really died?
There are loads of questions like this posed in the book; with tricky subjects such as life and death, the human soul, and religion all touched upon. It is truly an emotional experience to get an insight into each childs life and viewpoint, and to see how they view the idea of their own unwinding, and ultimately their own death. It is also interesting to see how much each child is willing to fight to preserve their life, and really does make for an absorbing read.
I have to say that at times I did feel physically sick though - especially the chapter where we follow a child through the operation to be unwound (the child is conscious throughout), especially given the fact that we are told that this child is taken to pieces and ultimately redistributed in just 3 hours 19 minutes. How wrong that an entire life can be disassembled into constituent parts and ultimately ended, in such a clinical fashion, in a little over three hours.
Overall, I enjoyed this book, and the ideas that it provoked, (even the sickening ones) and I think anyone with an interest in young-adult, dystopian stories will really enjoy this.
9 out of 10.
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Will satisfy you Hunger Games withdrawals!
I'm in my teens and bought this book as I heard it was like the Hunger Games. It's now one of my favourite books and I'm looking forward for the next one to come out later in 2012,... Read more
Published 8 days ago by Liv M
A Bit Too Middle Grade
I was first introduced to Unwind a couple of weeks ago, when a blogger shared a Youtube video on Twitter. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Miss Victoria Ramage
Chilling and Superb
I picked Unwind up from a recommendation on Goodreads...and I wasn't disappointed. In a powerful piece of writing, Neil Shusterman takes us to a future world where abortion is... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Tony Talbot
Fantastic!!!
Honestly the most shocking book i've ever read - i couldn't have predicted a thing that happened when i began and the twists are right up to the very end. Read more
Published 2 months ago by steph
Don't believe the hype
I'm astonished to find nothing but positive reviews of this novel. There are several reasons why I can't give it more than two stars:
First, though the novel is set in... Read more
First, though the novel is set in... Read more
Published 4 months ago by JemimaPineapple
A great novel that is well written and makes you want to read on.
When I started out reading this book, I didn't think it would be as good as I found it to be. The story centrals around the three main characters Connor, Risa and Lev, all being... Read more
Published 6 months ago by a_teenage_reader
Disturbing But Excellent
To restate the blurb: this book takes place after the outlawing of abortion and the development of a new technology which allows for unlimited grafting/replacement of organs or... Read more
Published 7 months ago by korrokakita
Not for the faint hearted
A creepy idea that delivers on the horrors that tremble through it. This is a stark journey and not for the faint hearted - however it is also as inventive as it is tough. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Scarmoge
Excellent book
This book portrays a world that could be just a few years away from ours. This is one of the keys that make this book work so well - a couple of legislations here and there, and we... Read more
Published 8 months ago by CoolJules
YO, BITCH. Gimme your vital organs.
Ok, this book was nothing like i thought i would be. Im not sure what i thought it would be to be honest - but it was a hell of a lot different. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Britishwotsit
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