Three normal everyday teenagers, Risa, Connor, and Lev, running for their lives hoping to survive their cruel death. All being sent to be unwounded for different reasons but all hope to survive until the age of 18, when they will no longer be able to be unwounded. Concerning their faith in life as unwounds, the three teenagers have heard their guardians always say that it was fine and stated “The fact is 100 percent of you will still be alive, just in a divided state” (Shusterman 24). They are all terrified of the unwinding and with their parents supporting it they have no choice but to collaborate with each other and the other unwinds.

            Books with stories like this one tend to give chills to many, but the book itself gives off a sense of sorrow for the teenagers who have been sent to be unwound and how scared the teenagers themselves are. Shusterman gives us the image of what the far future could look like, and he illustrates how much the world can really change. The book is made from the perspective that there are many people in need of organs with very few organ donors. With the world changing their laws and applying new ones Shusterman gives us insight on what a world like this could look like, and he indicates possible outcomes of normal world problems that could become bigger in the future.

            In the books it’s all the three teenagers and the rest of the unwinds that really bring the image of what it would feel like for your parents to give you up all by just using their words and really expressing their feeling. One of the unwinds Sam states “I’d rather be partly great than entirely useless” (Shusterman 26). This helps us see how brainwashed this unwind is and how manipulative a person can be to get teenagers to do what they want them to do.

            Unwind has some mature content and complicated understandings, but children 13 years and older should be able to understand what this story is about. This book has an interesting topic that really gives an insight of what a future like this could look like, and would be a good topic book for any teenager to read.