Unraveled

As promised, noted below are ramblings about my favorite two characters, best quotations, and book rating of Unwind, but first some housekeeping from my last post.

Blog correction: Question number 2 that I most want to ask Shusterman. Sometimes when you are reading a novel that is so intense, small details escape your notice. For me, it was the part in the novel where the future of CyFi is revealed. Don’t worry. No spoiler here. My book group this week helped to clear away the confusion cobwebs about what happens to CyFi and they gave Unwind a stellar rating by the way.

“Off the Charts” Rating--Unwind

Cover: Those graphic artists know what they are doing.

Page Turner: Oh no, it’s the last page!

Movie Potential: Only if J.J. Abrams directs it.

Ice Cream: Haagen Dazs Vanilla Swiss Almond

Why I love the character of Risa—A not so helpless, no damsel in distress kind of girl:

1. She takes on the responsibility of a storked baby at the threat of being captured.

2. She is blunt and honest, most of all with Connor.

3. She fights off an angry mob of teens while trying to protect the admiral.

4. She is not defined by a boy.

5. She is not afraid to make a difficult choice at the cost of her own life.

Why we all need Hayden’s character in our lives:

1. He is the only bright light in the cramp quarters under the antique shop.

2. His willingness to question his own existence and the value of his life.

3. He is a veritable fountain of sarcastic, comic relief.

Best Quotations:

Page 23: Risa can’t listen to them anymore, so she shuts them up by saying what they don’t have the courage to say themselves. “I’m being unwound?”

Page 111: “Maybe, maybe not. One thing you learn when you’ve lived as long as I have—people aren’t all good, and people aren’t all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives. Right now, I’m pleased to be in the light.” ~ Sonia

Page 192: “Tell him what he needs to hear!” Lev says. He stands there with such wrath in him he feels that earth itself will split from his anger. He told Cy he’d witness this. But he can’t witness it and not take action.

Page 333: “We will have a voice, and we will use it. We will make ourselves be heard.” ~ Connor

Stay tuned to next week for my ponderings on Susan Beth Pfeffer's The Dead and The Gone.