Unwind Blog #1

Okay, I'm moving' on. I had never read a Neal Shusterman book until recently when I read Bruiser, which I really liked. Then someone suggested Unwind and boy am I glad they did! What a crazy concept: the US has a law that one cannot touch a child from conception to age 13, but from 13 to 18 one can "unwind" them. This means taking every piece of them and donating to others. It's the ultimate organ donation program! No more preventative medicine because the ill can just pay for a new organ or body part. So creepy and so well done. The characters are really good in this book, too. Connor is angry, but intelligent so realizes he needs to change his ways to survive. Risa is wise beyond her years but afraid to trust after 16 years in an orphanage. And Lev believes he was born to be unwound; he's the 10th child, the family tithe. They must work together to save themselves and perhaps others. Shusterman has such a way with a story; he pulls me in from the first page and keeps me wanting more. And now I must find another copy of Unwind, photocopy the final page, and paste it into this copy so no one else has this feeling of being left hanging at the end of a really good book.