Happy New Year everyone! I hope the holidays were amazing for you all. And I wish you a wonderful 2015.I want to thank all of you to stop by The Reader Lines. I know I’m not the best blogger out there, but I’ve always tried to share everything about my favorite books with the awesome bookish community.
That’s why I wanted to spotlight my favorite series of 2014.
The Unwind Dystology by Neal Shusterman is the best dystopian series I’ve read in my life. It’s the books, the series I recommend when someone asks me about a good sci-fic or dystopian world. I hope if you’re reading this, you give this series a chance. These books are cruel and tragic, and at the same time they’re painfully beautiful and dazzling. Neal’s writing is clever and addictive. The characters are so very well created and strong. I cannot even tell you how wonderful these books are because I’ll keep saying every synonymous of amazing. You can tell Unwind is gross and ugly and horrifying. It is. But every aspect of the plot is realistic and smart. There’s beauty in every word.There are adds about the different “organizations” that control unwinding. There are links to real posts that live up the possibility of living in a world like that. There’s a wonderful characters dynamic. There’s a wonderful plot development. And there’s a perfect, perfect ending to this series. I won’t say more because I don’t think I can find more words. So, pleaseeee, give Unwind a chance!
Unwind
Connor, Risa, and Lev are running for their lives.
The
Second Civil War was fought over reproductive rights. The chilling
resolution: Life is inviolable from the moment of conception until age
thirteen. Between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, however, parents
can have their child "unwound," whereby all of the child's organs are
transplanted into different donors, so life doesn't technically end.
Connor is too difficult for his parents to control. Risa, a ward of the
state is not enough to be kept alive. And Lev is a tithe, a child
conceived and raised to be unwound. Together, they may have a chance to
escape and to survive.
UnWholly
Thanks to Connor, Lev,
and Risa—and their high-profile revolt at Happy Jack Harvest Camp—people
can no longer turn a blind eye to unwinding. Ridding society of
troublesome teens while simltaneously providing much-needed tissues for
transplant might be convenient, but its morality has finally been
brought into question. However, unwinding has become big business, and
there are powerful political and corporate interests that want to see it
not only continue, but also expand to the unwinding of prisoners and
the impoverished.
Cam is a product of unwinding; made entirely
out of the parts of other unwinds, he is a teen who does not technically
exist. A futuristic Frankenstein, Cam struggles with a search for
identity and meaning and wonders if a rewound being can have a soul. And
when the actions of a sadistic bounty hunter cause Cam’s fate to become
inextricably bound with the fates of Connor, Risa, and Lev, he’ll have
to question humanity itself.
Rife with action and suspense, this
riveting companion to the perennially popular Unwind challenges
assumptions about where life begins and ends—and what it means to live.
UnSouled
Connor and Lev are on
the run after the destruction of the Graveyard, the last safe haven for
AWOL Unwinds. But for the first time, they’re not just running away from
something. This time, they’re running toward answers, in the form of a
woman Proactive Citizenry has tried to erase from history itself. If
they can find her, and learn why the shadowy figures behind unwinding
are so afraid of her, they may discover the key to bringing down
unwinding forever.
Cam, the rewound boy, is plotting to take down
the organization that created him. Because he knows that if he can
bring Proactive Citizenry to its knees, it will show Risa how he truly
feels about her. And without Risa, Cam is having trouble remembering
what it feels like to be human.
With the Juvenile Authority and
vindictive parts pirates hunting them, the paths of Connor, Lev, Cam,
and Risa will converge explosively—and everyone will be changed.
UnDivided
