Connor isn't quite a bad boy, but he'll be the first to admit that he acts before he thinks, which gets him into fights and other trouble pretty frequently. Still, it's a shock to him when he finds the signed paperwork for his unwinding. His parents have made the decision to have him unwound, to have every part of his body transplanted into new recipients. He's not going to die, just live on in a separated state. Unwinding is, after all, the compromise that was reached between the pro-lifers and the pro-choicers in the second Civil War. Still, Connor doesn't plan to let it happen to him, and makes a daring escape at the first opportunity. He ends up taking two other Unwinds with him: Risa, scheduled for unwinding due to budget cuts in the state home she was living in, and Lev, a tithe of his religious parents. They'll need to evade capture until their 18th birthdays if they're going to really survive, but that won't be easy--especially when Lev's determination to tithe himself puts them all in jeopardy. 
 Dystopian in the sense of --holy crap, what has the government agreed to? Unwinding was proposed as a joke, intended to scare both sides of the Reproductive Rights war into cooperating, but the bluff was called and now it's a horrible reality. There are Harvest Camps all around the country, ready to unwind teenagers in a sort of retroactive abortion. I suppose it really is more sci-fi than dystopian, but I can make a case for dystopia based on the societal and religious value of lives and the government's solution to the abortion debate. 
 Short chapters and varied viewpoints keep the pace moving briskly. Light romance doesn't overshadow the plot and the characters are mostly well-developed. It wouldn't hurt to have had another girl somewhere in here, or to better develop the one who is there, but she wasn't such a sideline character as to be annoying. I just wished more had been done with her. Great for 8th grade and up, particularly boys.