Set in the future, this book is about unwanted kids who are "unwound". Once a child hits a certain age, if they are an orphan, a troublemaker, or even for religious reasons, they can be sent to a harvest camp and be unwound. This means that they are harvested for their body parts....killed, to those who read the book, but the society believes that they are still living, just in many many pieces in different people. The story follows three different teens who are trying to escape from being unwound. One girl is a ward of the state and they are making room in the state home; another is born to religous parents who's religion has them sacrifice one of their children; and the last is a boy who has been labeled a trouble maker.
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I love dystopian books and was glad that I was able to get into this one. I have tried to read a couple other YA dytopian books and couldn't manage to finish them. The book definitely raises ethical questions. Obviously with so many teens being unwound, there's no longer a wait on organ donor lists, so it's interesting to see what the different characters think of things like this.
Good start to 2010's reading.
