YET ANOTHER BOOK REVIEW YAAAAYY

Hello hello, Today I'm going to share something totally brand new with you!A book review! You'll say: -"Oh no Theo why would you do that? Well I say: -"Read till the end and You'll find out!!!"

So let's get on with it

This is a book I read in NEW ZEALAND (Gasp!) (Wow! really?!!,) (Yes really)

“Unwind” is a fiction novel I read recently. It was written in 2007 by Neal Shusterman and is part of a trilogy. The American author is well known for his young-adult novels for which he has won numerous literary prizes including the National Book Award for Young People's Literature and the Golden Kite Award for Fiction.

The story is based in America at a time that is said to be a not-too-distant future. The three protagonists, Connor, Risa and Lev, are teenagers with very different backgrounds. But even so, they ally and fight against the society they live in.

Set in a dystopian society where pro-life and pro-choice opinions have had a long war and have come to an agreement, the three teenagers try to escape their dreadful fate. This agreement is called Unwinding, or, in two more familiar words, retroactive abortion. Unwinding is used to get rid of feral teens at a time when feticide is not accepted and consequently the number of unwanted children increased. With parental consent, the youngster’s body gets dismantled in a surgical manner. The organs, limbs and other body parts then live in a divided state, saving lives of those in need of replacements. In a world that has been told it needs new body parts. This is considered by most an excellent way of rendering difficult youth far more useful.

The main characters are on their way to get unwound but each manage to escape in their own way, they get together by chance and try to get out of harm’s way. The three teens go through tough times. But luckily they know that down south there is someplace safe where a lot of teens like them find refuge until they are 18, some sort of paradise for young people that are supposed to get unwound. Connor Lev and Risa in very different ways learn to survive. They find a resistance network made to protect teenagers on the run, but they also encounter rogue ‘teen-hunters’ that sell teens to illegal body harvesting factories.  

I really enjoyed the perilous adventures that Connor, Risa and Lev go through because it reflects their will to live, unveils their character traits and builds complicated relationships.

Also, the author manages to build a very plausible dystopian society around unwinding, and the terror that comes with it.

The tale is told by means of the narrator’s voice that changes from one person to another every chapter. I very much like that because it brings the reader an array of unique perspectives and explanations for the same scenes. It also allows the author to superpose suspense, anticipation as well as other intended reactions at the same time. Shusterman criticises religion, abortion and government corruption throughout his book.

Even if the harvesting of organs in teenagers is becoming less and less realistic with the huge advances in the creation of synthetic organs as well as in vitro organ growing we are seeing today, as part of a series of 4 I highly recommend this book to anyone craving real adventure and insupportable suspense wrapped in a realistic story.

Sorry I can't guarantee the freshness of this article....

Hope the themes discussed were enjoyable

Have a nice evening

PS: MS.C it's 9:10 pm so technically still in the 21st hour of the day.....