A guest review from Teen Room staff Lydia!
One hundred years from now, the United States has undergone a second civil war called “The Heartland War,” to finally satisfy both Pro-life and Pro-choice supporters. The result is “The Bill of Life.” This bill protects all children, born and unborn, under the age of thirteen. As an alternative, parents may choose to abort a child between the ages thirteen and eighteen, as long as the child’s life does not technically end. Rather, each and every part of the child is kept alive, only in a separated form. Through the parts provided by “unwinds,” medical technology has become incredibly advanced, allowing such practices as limb and spinal cord transplants.
Connor, a rebellious 16-year-old, has found the unwind papers, signed by his parents and runs away in an effort to survive to eighteen. Risa, a ward of the state, is to be unwound to cut costs at the orphanage, but thanks to a bus accident, escapes. Lev, the youngest child of 10, is his parents tithe. He accepts his place as an offering to help others and is outraged when a mad unwind drags him from the family car and kidnaps him, mere miles from the harvest camp.
Will Connor and Risa survive to eighteen? Will Lev change his mind about the practice of unwinding? Unwind will keep readers on the edge of their seats following Connor, Risa and Lev as they learn whom they can trust in this world in which they’re fugitives.
--Lydia
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