UNWIND

 This book is very controversial with the concept of being unwound as an alternative to abortion. I think that unwinding is cruel because it lets some kids live life and develop dreams and aspirations and have goals for life, to only have them shutdown and be unwound. On the other end, it makes some other kids withdrawal from life because there is the possibility of not having a life at all. This book has a very interesting twist on the pro-life concept. I feel that it would be crueler to let someone live to a certain point and then kill them, then to not let them live at all. The concept of storking is a horrible idea as well, interesting but horrible. The concept of playing ding dong ditch with a baby can be very screwed up. Storking can lead to horrible things like it did in the book when Connor watched the baby who was passed around the neighborhood die. The responsibility of a baby should not be put on a family simply because someone thought their doorstep looked good. It is almost as if storking counteracts the concept of unwinding. I would think the person would just care for the baby until it was thirteen and then have it unwound rather than just dumping the burden on someone else. In my opinion, the idea that a person will live on passed being unwound with his or her body parts in a bunch of other people is stupid. Being killed and then giving the body parts away doesn’t evolve to living at all, it evolves to being dead. To me, living is having full physical body with a consciousness to make personal decisions about life; one body part is not capable of doing this and it would be interesting to know what the government’s definition of life is.

This book would appeal to adolescents because if unwinding were a real thing, it would be around the time for those readers to be unwound. So therefore it would make adolescents think about what it would be like to have your life end at that age. It could make the story very real for a lot of readers and relatable. I also think it would be relatable to adolescents who do not want to face things and feel like running away.

I personally really enjoyed this book even though I am not into science fiction type novels. I would give this book an A- because the concept was so intriguing. Also, I loved how it was written from different perspectives and had overlapping scenes from those perspectives. I thought that was a very cool way to read a story.