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UnSouled

Pages
416
Published
2013
Language
English

Synopsis

After the destruction of the Graveyard, the last safe haven for AWOL unwinds, Connor and Lev are on the run again. For the first time they are running toward something: a woman Proactive Citizenry has tried to erase from history, who may hold the key to ending unwinding for good. Their journey does not go smoothly, and the road takes them through a string of detours and dangers.

Elsewhere, Cam, the Rewind assembled from many unwound teens, is determined to bring Proactive Citizenry, the organization that created him, to its knees. He believes doing so will show Risa how he truly feels about her. Risa faces trouble of her own, while new voices, including the ambitious Mason Starkey, enter the story as the struggle over the future of the nation's children grows.

UnSouled is the third book in Neal Shusterman's Unwind Dystology, a young adult dystopian series set in a near future where parents can have their teenagers "unwound" and their bodies harvested. It follows Unwind and UnWholly and is followed by UnDivided. Kirkus found it a slower, more meandering instalment, built from many side stories that connect only gradually.

How it reads

Prose complexity 7/10
Content warnings (2)
ViolenceKidnapping