Unwind by Neal Shusterman - Review

The heartland war - a long and weary battle over abortion. The resolution - a new law.

Abortion is abolished but now instead of abortion is 'unwinding'.

From being born to the young age of thirteen you are protected but between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, you can be unwound. A process where 97% of your body is donated and is given to the sick and injured. The government calls it the 'divided state'. A process by which your body is dismantled and used for organ donation. Troublesome kids, wards of the state or any child who the parents can't handle is at risk of being "unwound."

The story follows three main characters all meant to be unwound, and discovers how fate brings them together.

Connor has always been trouble, sometimes unable to control his temper. When he finds out that his parents are about to have him unwound, he runs away and crosses paths with Risa and Lev. Risa is a ward of the state being sent away due to shortage of money and Lev is a tithe, sacrificed by his religious parents for a greater good.

Connor and Risa have only one goal: to be able to make it until their eighteenth birthday, when the law will protect them from being unwound but Lev, who has always believed in his special purpose, is deeply annoyed that they rescued him from his destiny.

Should he run with his two 'rescuers' or should he turn them in?

I really enjoyed this book. The characters and world in which they live, is very realistic and all of the characters are easy to relate to. There are many questions posed in this book, it deals with tricky subjects such as: life and death, the human soul and religion. It leaves you thinking about these long after you've finished the book.

The world which the author creates is one which is set in the future, but it is not so over the top so that it makes it unrealistic and hard to depict.

The story is great, lots of twists and turns that I wasn't expecting and hard hitting story lines. 'Unwind' is a mixture of 'The Hunger Games', 'Divergent' and the 'Chaos Walking Trilogy' but it also has something else making it different to other young adult dystopian novels out there.

Its a terrifying tale of love, horror, survival and rebellion. From start to finish 'Unwind' is unputdownable, and I urge you to go and pick it up now. This book is definitely in my top five. After reading it, there was one question i couldn't decide on - be killed or be unwound? Thought-provoking and terrifying, 'Unwind' will keep you reading late into the night…

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