Unwind by Neal Shusterman is a piece of art hat once you find you never want to let it go. I was so wary of reading this book when I found it but I thought I might as well give it a go and it was the best decision I ever made because it soon became my favourite book! 
 I was thrown into this dystopian world that was so amazing and yet so disgustingly wrong. I was shocked and amazed, delighted and saddened by what was going on in this book and in this new world. I was tightly wound up with emotions and feelings, debates and beliefs, arguments and questions about the process, about the idea of 'unwinding' and even now I have strange questions that demand answers. 
 Some would say its gruesome but in my eyes its not, oh people are getting unwound (basically an abortion of a 13-18 year old child where they are surgically unwound so their 'parts' are given to others who are more 'deserving' in societies eyes. A child who was born blind may be able to see, a soldier who lost a limb can regain one)but he never explicitly shows you what happens. I will say their is a scene where you read about a person being unwound but rather than being gruesome and bloody its heart wrenching, saddening and horrifying because you read the last words of a child whose been beaten by the world and has lost everything with their parents consent on the matter. A child whose been betrayed by the people who should stick beside them throughout everything. Even the medical team completing the 'operation; are not cruel or horrible but the impersonal way the event is happens makes you recoil in shock, in horror, in hatred for them. 
 This book was just something new, unique, something where I was thrown into a world so like the one I live today but with more advanced technology and bigger problems. A world with new words that make it seem so real and lifelike the 'clappers' the 'storking; and the 'umbras' create a picture of a world like ours but so different. Instead of worrying about boys/girls, school and homework they have new problems of whether they are going to push their parents to the point of no return. How would I deal if my own mother had decided I was a lost cause and decided to have me removed from the world? To have others hold a part of me so I would never live my own life. The fact that this future is possible makes it so much more chilling. 
 The book takes you a journey that makes you smile in relief, question your beliefs, cry for hated characters and laugh in delight. I was torn into two about unwinding, I could see why it happened and why people liked it...it meant children weren't blind or deaf, those who were born unable to speak are able to and those unable to walk have a new chance, a soldier whose limb had been amputated had a new arm that worked!Amazing yet the abandonment of teenagers whose only crime was too rebel against their parents maybe smoke some drugs or get into fights while real criminals were in prison and kept safe. You looked into the minds of bitter and angered children who while running for their lives matured, made themselves into better people and yet they were hurt by their parents, by their country. A world where teenagers fear there decisions because their lives are not a given right. 
 Lev, Risa and Connor all have different situations and yet their in the same situation even if Lev is a Tithe and had volunteered, well maybe been brainwashed, and Connor is the typical trouble child or what about Risa whose only crime is that's shes a ward of the state had her piano skills aren't good enough to keep her in one piece. Three children who have their lives been taken away so easily for the good of others, for a society who don't care why. 
 The plot makes you think and debate, if your unwound are you dead? Does your soul live on? Does anyone deserve that fate? Do you even have a soul? Is the government murdering the children or do they live on? I still have questions concerning the book and I probably always will but it was a great book. 
 So heres the plot- 
 there three children Connor, Lev and Risa who are up to be unwound but Connor escaped and as such he holds Lev hostage who as is seen as purer sine he is a tithe, a child who has done no wrong but has volunteered for the process so they can give back to God for what there families have received. The three run from the law as the try to avoid the juvy cops who will take them to the chop shops (the place they will be unwound) with no mercy or regrets. They face the knowledge of the majority of the country being against them. They met other unwind runaways some who are good and others who aren't. You read about why some have the unwound order signed and you stare in disbelief and wonder. You make a decision about one of the characters you later regret because in the end you realise why they became who they are. 
 I would recommend anyone to give the book a try since it truly is a unique read. Its truly an amazing book that I am grateful to have had the chance to read.