ohyeahstudio

I read this book a long while ago so feel free to correct me if I get some of the information wrong... The book takes place some time in the future. A war has been fought between pro-life and pro-choice. In the end, both sides ended up compromising by making it legal to "unwind" kids once they reached the age of 13, but before they reach the age of 18. Unwinding is a process of basically harvesting a human for their organs. The people in the future justify this by using thinking such along the lines of "you live on after you are unwound, as many different pieces." The concept was fairly interesting and creative to me. I also enjoyed the main cast of characters. Connor is a typical bad-boy type who has a fairly good heart when it comes down to it. Risa is probably my favorite character. From what I remember she is strong, intelligent, and resourceful. The other character Lev, I'm not sure I can describe without giving away some spoilers. I'll just say I did not enjoy the abrupt transformation the author decided to give him. The story is told from the 3 main character's perspective. Each chapter changes the character the story is being told by. However, it is written entirely in the third person, which really gave me a feeling like I was reading a 5th grade paper written by a student. "Connor was hungry. Connor ate a sandwich because he was hungry. Connor was no longer hungry because he ate a sandwich. Connor's sandiwch had ham on it." Seriously, this author needs to learn how to use pronouns. It just gives it a very unprofessional feel in my opinion. Despite the poor writing style, I enjoyed the story being told. It was an interesting idea, and the characters were for the most part likable. If it sounds like an interesting plot to you, and you don't mind trudging through the writing style, I think you may enjoy this book. If the style a book is written is more important to you then the content and meaning of the words, I would avoid this at all costs.

2022-10-21 05:25