I wish I could rate this higher. It was just… damn. You know what? Five more stars! Cause yes, for me! It was that good.

Unwind is the story of society and the things that they do for money. When your children reach the age of thirteen they are eligible for unwinding. Unwinding is when you sign your child over to the government and the government uses 100% of your child for…I don’t know what the word is, transplants maybe? They take your child apart completely from your epidermis to your internal organs and blood, eyeballs, every single piece of you and preserve it. At least until someone in the world needs it to use it cosmetically, or to save them from death. Need a heart? Hey, there’s fifty million to choose from. Need a leg? We got one for you. Parents have from the age of thirteen to eighteen to sign their children over. There are the children that are taken against their will and then. There are tithes. These are children that know from the time they are born that as soon as they turn thirteen they will be unwound in the name of religion. We are not about to get into religion.

The story centers around three main characters. They are all developed beautifully how they became candidates for unwinding and everything in between. I absolutely loved their development and a look at their relationships with each other and others. Absolutely amazing.

This is the point I realized this book was scary as hell. Roland as he’s listening to the surgeons talking to each other like they’re not there as he is going through his “Unwinding”:

<B>Surgeon 1:</B> <I>Did we get the auditory nerves?</I>

<B>Surgeon 2:</B> <I>Not yet, I’m getting them right n-</I>

Hell no! No. No. No. That is the saddest thing I have ever read in my life. He was the villain of the movie. See! I meant book. Sad. He was the villain and I hated him the whole way through until this point. Why? Because even at this point I realized that as manipulative as Roland was, he was still just a child trying to ensure his survival the whole way through. He’s a kid and this system that he’s grown up in has made him this way because no one really cares about them. Sure there are people that help them to survive, but no one really cares for them.

It just encompasses how society is and how they view everything. “<I>Not my problem.</I>" Nothing is anyone’s problem. Definitely not the children they bore.

I don’t know how to say how great this book is. Not tonight. It’s late. Or early. I’ll tweak this as soon as possible. Til then. Just know it was amazing to pick it up. PICK IT UP!!

Happy Reading,
JMay Out!