📖 Unwind

The first thing I did with Unwind the book was not open it or Google the author. I had to search up what a "dystology" was. Don't see it? Search up the cover. It's right there, under the word "Unwind." It says "Book 1 in the Unwind Dystology." I thought it meant something similar to trilogy or duology, and it was like a series of four books, perhaps. As it turns out, it's not even a real word. Many sites have speculated on what it means. The best guess we have for a definition is "the study of a bad place." You'll realize very soon that that word is very, very accurate to the series. Unwind takes place inside a post-civil war America where parents are legally allowed to subject their children to "unwinding," which is the process of some doctors and surgeons manually taking apart a teenager for their organs, bones, blood, etc. All that is then donated to hospitals, where it's used to save lives. Parents subject their children to this for a variety of reasons: Their kid is too unruly, their kid is a drug addict, they just hate their kid, they want to be rid of the kid, you get the idea. It's a world where every person under the age of eighteen lives in fear of becoming unwilling organ donors. Our story focuses on three different Unwinds (kids who get subjected to unwinding): Connor, Risa, and Lev. Connor's parents subject him to unwinding as his grades slip in school and he seems more and more like a failure. Risa is an orphan under governmental protection. Unfortunately for her, 5% of all orphans or kids under their care are subjected to unwinding. And Lev is a tithe, a kid who knew from birth that he would eventually be unwound for religious reasons. In a freak highway incident, while Connor is being pursued by Juvey-cops, police officers specializing in capturing runaway Unwinds, all three manage to escape the Juvies, and into the nearby woods. Connor and Risa both want to survive until they turn eighteen, when they legally cannot be unwinded, but Lev is dead set on getting himself unwound. I really liked Unwind. Of course, I love dystopias, so I'm biased, but I feel like I'd like the book anyway even if I wasn't. I thought it told a very coherent story and I loved the base plot and setting. Unwind covered all the base parts of exposition and characterization, but that's not very unique to Unwind. Any good book does that. In one book, I watched all three characters cover massive growth, which is my favorite part about books, but character growth is essential to the plot, too. I think the reason I liked Unwind so much was the relationship the characters have with each other. It's simultaneously weird, reluctant, and impulsive, but the three elements somehow click together and make it work. You get to see the rawness of human emotion and thinking within our three main characters and what they face together. I'd recommend this book for anyone with a taste for dystopia or sci-fi.

我拿到《Unwind》这本书后做的第一件事既不是打开它,也不是上网搜索作者。 我得上网查一下"反乌托邦系列小说"是什么意思。 没看到吗?搜一下封面。就在那儿,在"Unwind"这个词下面写着"Unwind 反乌托邦系列第一部"。我原以为它类似于三部曲或二部曲,可能是一套四部曲的书。 事实证明,这甚至都不是一个真正的单词。许多网站都在猜测它的意思。我们对它的定义的最佳猜测是"对糟糕之地的研究"。 你很快就会意识到,这个词对这个系列来说非常非常贴切。 《解构》的故事发生在美国内战前,当时法律允许父母让孩子接受"解构"手术,即由一些医生和外科医生将青少年的身体手动拆解,取出其器官、骨骼、血液等,然后捐赠给医院,用于拯救生命。 父母让孩子接受这种做法的原因多种多样:孩子太不听话、孩子吸毒成瘾、父母就是讨厌孩子、想摆脱孩子,诸如此类。在这个世界里,每个未满十八岁的孩子都生活在恐惧之中,害怕自己成为不情愿的器官捐赠者。 我们的故事围绕着三个不同的"解体者"(即被解体的孩子)展开:康纳、丽莎和利夫。康纳的父母让他接受解体,因为他的学习成绩下滑,在学校里越来越像个失败者。丽莎是个孤儿,受政府保护。不幸的是,所有孤儿或受其照顾的孩子中有 5%会被解体。利夫是个"什一供奉",他从出生起就知道自己最终会因宗教原因被解体。 在一个离奇的公路事件中,康纳正被专门抓捕逃跑的"拆分人"的少年警察追捕,三人成功摆脱了少年警察,逃进了附近的树林。康纳和瑞莎都希望活到 18 岁,因为到那时他们就依法不能被拆分了,但利夫却一心想要被拆分。 我真的很喜欢《解离》这本书。当然,我本来就喜欢反乌托邦题材,所以可能有偏见,但即便没有这种偏爱,我也觉得会喜欢这本书。我觉得它讲述了一个非常连贯的故事,而且我很喜欢它的基本情节和背景设定。 《解构》涵盖了所有基础的叙述和人物塑造部分,但这并非《解构》所独有。任何一本好书都会做到这些。在这本书中,我见证了三个角色的巨大成长,这是我最喜欢书籍的部分,但人物成长对情节发展也至关重要。 我觉得我如此喜欢《解离》这部作品的原因在于书中人物之间的关系。这种关系既怪异又勉强,还很冲动,但三个要素不知怎的却能融合在一起,相得益彰。你能看到我们三个主要人物内心最真实的情感和想法,以及他们共同面对的困境。 我会向任何喜欢反乌托邦或科幻作品的人推荐这本书