Book Review: Unwind (Unwind, #1) by Neal Shusterman

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Book Review: Unwind (Unwind, #1) by Neal Shusterman
Rating: **** (4/5 stars)

Every dystopian books have their own kind of style, conflicts and situations but there are similarity with each book with this kind of genre - the fight for humanity and a lot of things like that. I've read dystopian books wherein they struggle to live with their factions, loss of basic needs, vampires and zombies, negative utopia, kids with superpower due to experiments, aliens, diseases and viruses, and the list can go on. This book is kinda similar, somehow it reminds me with the mixed of the stories that I've read. The story here is about the state of humanity wherein they live with the law of Bill of Life. Wherein 13 to 18 year olds don't have their own life anymore, they will have no choice if they will be unwound or the state wherein they have to donate all their body parts and organs. It reminds me of the novel "Never Let Me Go", but the characters there are all orphan but in this book, the decision of the teenager to be unwound will be in the hand of their guardian or parents.

This book is not really bad though I have second thoughts reading it. The first part is kinda slow and you think that it is predictable because of course, you've read books like this but I gave it a moment and then suddenly got hooked. The story in this book misleads the advancement of medicine and instead of treating disease or sickness, they gave more importance to surgery therefore, less meds, more organs needed and more creepy procedures. What more terrifying is that it was as if getting organs from the teens (tho they really tell them that it is donation) are normal and they believe that it will not actually makes you dead and your soul will still be there...uhm right.

Anywayyyy, this book is good. Character development is slow and you have to give it a time before the main characters
grow on you. Ok, next please!

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