UnSouled (3) (Unwind Dystology) Paperback – October 14, 2014

**THIS BOOK IS NOT THE FINAL BOOK** theres a 4th one called UnDivided that comes out October 2014. There seems to be a lof of confusion about the 'ending' of this one, but it's not the end to the series. anyway REVIEW:NEAL SHUSTERMAN WEAVES A TALE AS INTERESTING AND COMPLEX AS CAMUS COMPRIXS 'INTERNAL COMMUNITY'.This story, since the very first book, keeps you involved and your mind going, it's absolutely incredible. The parallels to our own reality are disturbing especially when he's starting each part of the book off with real research and real articles with actual links you can view online. It makes it all a little too close to home and gives you a sense of unease that will stay with you whenever you think too long about how our world and society are run, and who the people in charge are. It challenges your beliefs and forces you to reevaluate your compassion and morals. its just fantastic.The characters are compelling and you grow attached to every single one, even the 'bad guys' and the ones you don't particularly like. You find yourself reading faster and turning pages at an alarming rate simply in the hopes of getting to a different view point and once you're there you're only led to need a different one. GYUHIt's a beautiful web, expertly executed. A perfect blend of present and future, theres just enough of a futuristic aspect to make it sooo scarily believable and I am absolutely gutted that I have to wait until october to see how it all plays out in the end. The heroes tasks are big ones, they have a lot of people against them (practically the whole of society) and a lot of them are very important people. With how realistic and plot twisting the series has been so far it's a total mystery as to how it will end. And thats kinda scary.

I don't give five star ratings very often, and if half-stars existed on Amazon, I'd probably rate it as four and a half stars. Unsouled wasn't a perfect book (not the least because of the rather troubling number of typos in the Kindle edition - not nearly the worst book I've seen when it comes to those, but more than I'm used to seeing in a brand new traditionally published novel - but that's nearly not all), but all in all, it *worked* for me.It was a bit slow-going at first, much like the previous books in this series, and there was less action in it (and less romance - not that there's been overly much of it in the previous books either) - what we got instead was more plot, more politics, more background on this horrible world. I'm still not sure I truly buy the concept; I could just nearly buy people not giving a damn about other people's kids, up to and including getting them chopped up for parts, but I still cannot really believe there would be that many people giving up their own flesh and blood, their own offspring.But then, there are people in the world who think nothing of murdering their own kids for some perceived slight or another, I guess, so anything is possible. I just have trouble seeing it happen in what is supposed to be a relatively close-to-us future and in such huge numbers.Anyway, if one can suspend disbelief and go with that, at least there's a reasonable attempt made here to explain that world, and the reasons people use to keep themselves blindly okay with the new arrangement - and that there are, after all, plenty of people who don't think it's the most awesome of best ideas ever.If there's anything I could have wished for (other than fewer typos) in this book, it's "more Risa"; she's largely absent. Fortunately the other main characters are strong enough and the plot was excellent, so while I missed her, it didn't detract from my general enjoyment.

I very much enjoyed this book, but I didn’t feel like it moved the story along very far. It’s a bridge to the big climax: it sets up how the final battle for unwinding will unfold, but it does so very slowly so that the big reveal will feel organic.Here be spoilers!Personally, I could have done without a lot of what feels like wheel spinning in this book. While there’s an argument to be made that it would have felt too rushed to fit in the key points of this story into the finale, this novel doesn’t really stand up on its own merits. (I’d hate to believe that Neal Shusterman was talked into splitting this novel into two parts to make more money, but I’m frankly annoyed that so little happens in this book. It's basically a giant road trip.) This story is all about the journey, and each stop point is only an opportunity for exposition.The entire book is literally all building to the big reveal: the same man who invented unwinding also invented a 3D printer that can produce real, living body parts. But the unwinding community hides the technology because it would destroy their profit. Shusterman drops this information like a bomb in the last chapter of the book, but for me it was letdown. It wasn’t even a surprise. Despite the author’s efforts to drive home how the profitability of unwinding has been woven into the fabric of society, I’m just not buying his logic that cheap body parts would somehow destroy this fabric. Like corporations couldn’t make money off the fake body parts? There’s a disconnect for me here, it feels like a false conflict. Compared to its predecessors, which were incredibly thought provoking, this novel didn’t really bring anything new.That said, it’s a wonderfully written book that was a pleasure to read. Shusterman’s style drips with cynicism, but he is a master at slowing down for emotional drama. This insane world of unwinding is horrifying, and Shusterman continues to bring that home in interesting ways. We catch up with CyFy, who has started a compound to reunite Tyler’s body parts (we already saw this idea in the first book, but okay). Starkey continues to be a destructive madman. By far the most compelling character to me is Cam, and I wish we had spent more time with him trying to answer the question of whether or not he has a soul, if he is really an “I.” I’m also morbidly hoping we’ll find out what Proactive Citizenry is hiding in their rabbit hole. While this book did not enthrall me the same way the first two books did, I am definitely awaiting the final chapter with baited breath.