Just so you know, I'm not taking this super-seriously. I just looked at someone else's posts which detailed their hours spent reading and then writing about the books, and I'm just not going to go into that much detail. I'm also not going to spend every waking hour on this. But I will be reading!
Unwind was a really good story. It's about a future in which people can send unwanted teenagers to be harvested for body parts, and in which there is a huge market for such parts. Basically, people just replace broken body parts instead of attempting to heal them. If you break an arm, you can just get a new one instead of having a cast put on. Bald? No problem. Get a new scalp.
The story follows three characters: Connor, whose parents are sending him to be "unwound" for being unruly, Risa, who is a ward of the state and is being unwound to save money, and Lev, who is being "tithed" by his super-religious family.
At first it seems rather ludicrous -- after all, what kind of parent would really give up their teenager, no matter how unruly, to be unwound? But there is an explanation for how all of this came about. And I'm not going to tell you what that is, because that's part of the book -- things get revealed.
Reading time last night: 1 hour. No, it didn't take me an hour to read -- I was already 2/3 through it.
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It was great, wasn't it? Really thought-provoking. That scene of the unwinding near the end made me cry, which I didn't expect at all.
I read the unwinding scene last night, and was like MAYBE I shouldn't be reading this right before bed...
It can be as structured or not as you want it to be. The most important thing is to make the time for reading and to have fun. Of course.
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