When I started reading this book, I couldn’t. Not in a way that makes me think it’s realistic we’ll end up there – but still realistic enough for me to think that somehow, if we really fucked up big time, it is a possibillity we did. But when we’re talking dystopia I have to feel a certain kind of realism to it. Let fiction be fiction, you say – and you may have a point. My very first reaction to this plot was that it felt too unrealistic. So I’m going to tell you how I experienced this: I have kind of struggled with rating the plot of this book, because I’ve been going so much back and forth with it myself. This was available, so I went with it! Also, I’m a sucker for dystopia’s and this one seemed interesting. Then when I needed a new e-book to have on my phone, I actually checked my TBR-list for once before deciding. I read about it on goodreads while scrolling around, and added it to my TBR. Genres: Young Adult, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Teen, Adventure, Thriller, Survival. My edition: An E-book edition in Norwegian from Cappelen Damm. Series: The first book in Unwind Dystology Together, they may have a chance to escape and to survive.įirst line: “There are places you can go”, Ariana tells him, “and a guy as smart as you has a descent chance of surviving to eighteen”. And Lev is a tithe, a child conceived and raised to be unwound. Risa, a ward of the state, is not enough to be kept alive.

Connor is too difficult for his parents to control. Between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, however, parents can have their child “unwound,” whereby all of the child’s organs are transplanted into different donors, so life doesn’t technically end. The chilling resolution: Life is inviolable from the moment of conception until age thirteen.

The Second Civil War was fought over reproductive rights.

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