Unwind (Unwind, #1) in Utopian and Dystopian Reading Group

Jul 04, 2014 Frank rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult

I have to say that I found this book to have an interesting premise. Could this happen some time in the future, why not. The harvesting of young human bodies for all they provide in transplanting is not at all with science fiction anymore, with what nowadays is being done in the sciences. Obviously, this is utterly immoral and if as a society we ever come to this, we have lost it as human beings.
On to the book. The story starts off quickly and you are off to the races, without spoiling the story ...more

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Oct 27, 2013 Kimberly rated it really liked it

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I hated and loved this book. It made me an emotional mess. There where times I swore I was not going to finish it and times I cried.

Frist, I am a personally a pro-live people but am a die hard conservative that believes very strongly in freedom, much less government, so I want woman to have a choice. However I call pro choice, pro abortion because I believe woman are not given enough information about abortions to understand the long term mental ramifications of that choice. Which made me clash ...more

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Jan 13, 2013 Rachel rated it really liked it

What a very interested concept. I wish I could think of something like this for a book. Something I'm a little disturbed by is the cover. It looks more like The Human Centipede, like it's going to be all about torture. The only thing I really wish for this book though is that I wish it were an adult fiction book, as opposed to young adult fiction. I LOVE story, but I felt I needed more commentary and politics in this one. Maybe it's because I just finished Island, but I felt lacking in actual in ...more

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Jan 06, 2013 Shannon Lewis rated it it was amazing

A really frightening book about what could happen if the pro-lifers get their way. The pages flew by and the characters were all really well developed. I would recommend this book for anyone who enjoys dystopian literature.

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