UnSouled (Unwind Dystology)

I was looking forward to this after reading the others in the series, I was not disappointed. I felt like we got to know the characters better, the story evolved beautifully and I couldn't but it down!

Both my 18 year old son and I read this entire series. It was well written and captured the thoughts and feelings of a teenager and kept it real. Interesting twist to the Pro-abortion/Pro-life debate. Thought provoking. Gave my son and I some ideas for discussion between us.

This book was very exciting and I couldn't find a good stopping point and I read until one o'clock in the morning. It especially got real good in the end and I was not satisfied so I automatically got the next book in the unwind dystology.

for those of who are wondering when undivided (the 4th book) comes out apparently it comes out this summer !!!!!!!!!! I hope :):(

oh and this is the best histology ever made good work Neal good work :) I look forward to reading more of your books .

It was a wonderful and thrilling read. As many series gets low on material towards the later books, unsouled remained just as interesting as the first book if not more. I recommend it to all fiction lovers!

This is great book. It connects all of the characters closer than before. For example, when the Tyler-folk meet arias, and she sees how Lev and Cyrus are related, and that leads into Lev meeting Wil's people, which leads to Cam, then back to Risa. It's a great book and an excellent buy!

I really loved this book, it was really hard for me to go to bed at night even though I was really tired because the book was so in intriguing. I liked the ending the most because I was really sad that it ended and I can't wait for the next book!

Fantastic continuation of the story and I can't wait to see what happens in the end! Love Neal Shustermans writing style and how he makes this story seem plausible. He's so clever and yet had a wild imagination, I love it!!

I thought this was the last book in the trilogy! I guess we will just have to wait and find out what will happen next. Neal Shusterman sure knows how to leave his readers hanging! Hope he can tie all the rest of the loose ends up with the next book.

To Neal Shusterman and the publishers of this series: you suck! I love the books but this one angered me at the end because you have a suspenseful plot line, several really, woven into each other intelligently. I am hurrying through this book wanting desperately to know what happens to the characters that I have grown to love. Then inexplicably the book just ends. I hate to tell you how stories are supposed to work because it is evident that you already know. Stories are supposed to have an introduction, a build-up, some problem that needs to be resolve, a climax and then a RESOLUTION. Ughhh. It would not have been so bad to end the book without resolving everything but this book left everything unresolved and then to matters even worse...you force the reader to wait MONTHS for the next installment. YOU SUCK!

I was confused while reading this book, because it was supposed to be the last in the series. It read more like a middle book of a series. After reading the ending, and being very dis-satisfied with the failure to wrap things up with only a hint of how they would end, it occurred to me to check and see if I was mistaken...and I was! A decision was made to split the sequel into two books, because it was getting so long.

After finding that information, I was very satisfied with this book. Now comes the long wait for the real last book.

This was a phenomenal book, but I'd expect no less from Neal. A truly great author and even better storyteller. I could not stop reading, much like the other books of his, and I await his next novel with open arms.

I cannot express how much I love this series. Each one of these books have things in them that are so unexpected that make them into what they are, and also have me thinking for months after I've finished them. Eagerly waiting for the next one!

This reader prefers a resolution but also appreciates the author's respect for the reader to decide exactly how the story ends. after following the entire trilogy, I wanted closure.I recommend this book to all dystology readers who are prepared to determine the end for themselves.

Great story interesting and complex characters and great job interweaving plot lines to bring characters together. Only criticism is that I thought this was the final book in the trilogy and I really hope it is not because too many details are left hanging

I was very disappointed with the ending!! I hope Shusterman is planning a fourth book because too much was left unanswered! What happened to Cam? Did Connor and Risa take down the Proactive Citizens??? I hope this was just a set up for a final book, if not I would just have read book one, Unwind, and not bothered with Unwholly or Unsouled. I was very disappointed after investing so much time in these characters. I would. Have been more satisfied if they had died by Girl Scout/clappers!

I have fallen in love with all of the unwind books, I can't explain it but I just love every second of it. I gave three stars because I lied last sentence- pieces are boring. I would much rather play SIM Free play but what can you do, right?

Book one was AMAZING!!! Book two was great!!! I really wanted to like this book….and I did, however, I thought this was suppose to be the END of the series!!! I really wanted to see this series come to a conclusion not wait for another YEAR or TWO for the final book. This book is actually more like 4 stars, but I was too upset with the unexpected cliff hanger ending of this book to give it a 4 star rating. The back and forth with Cam is a bit frustrating as well. I like him….I hate him. He is on the good side…..he's back on the bad side. I feel sorry for him….now I want him dead? Really? Also, the part about Starkey impregnating three girls is sort of crossing a line for me to be able to recommend it to middle schoolers? If you liked Unwind, my recommendation would be to wait until the final book is out….then sit and read the entire series!!! This would leave you without any frustrations of the TWO middle books having cliff hanger endings :)

Book one was AMAZING!!! Book two was great!!! I really wanted to like this book….and I did, however, I thought this was suppose to be the END of the series!!! I really wanted to see this series come to a conclusion not wait for another YEAR or TWO for the final book. This book is actually more like 4 stars, but I was too upset with the unexpected cliff hanger ending of this book to give it a 4 star rating. The back and forth with Cam is a bit frustrating as well. I like him….I hate him. He is on the good side…..he's back on the bad side. I feel sorry for him….now I want him dead? Really? Also, the part about Starkey impregnating three girls is sort of crossing a line for me to be able to recommend it to middle schoolers? If you liked Unwind, my recommendation would be to wait until the final book is out….then sit and read the entire series!!! This would leave you without any frustrations of the TWO middle books having cliff hanger endings :)

I love this book it is a great read by one of my favorite authors I shusterman is great at making you develop an emotional bond with the characters I would reccomend this and all his other books to everyone who enjoys a good book!

It was the worst book in the series but it wasn't bad. I didn't like it because it basically consisted of leg, Connor and Grace and the gang at the rez. Lack of action, TONS of loss ends. It was good but it wasn't good enough to match up to Unwinds expectations.

Neal Shusterman is a genius story teller. He builds his stories layer by layer, revealing the plot through multiple POVs. While the majority of POVs are from Connor, Lev, Risa and Cam the others all add so much to the depth and thought put into all aspects of the book. It is like a chess board and he is moving all the pieces of the puzzle around letting you see most of the plays before the final conclusion of the game. Some pieces will be sacrificed, some will only be distractions, some support and others will sneak in change the game completely. But inevitably the game will end with a victor, who that victor will be and how s still anyone's guess.

I'm wowed by this story. The initial horror that I felt in Unwind by the atrocities committed in that book haven't left me and even when I think I can't be more horrified by anything else in this series I'm proven wrong again. From who is really controlling the clappers to what Proactive Citizenry is willing to do or has done to keep all the body parts coming.

Neal Shusterman lets us walk through unwinding's past as the scientist Jansen Rheinschild horrified by what he has invented and how it is to be used tries to correct his mistakes. At the beginning of each Part there is a snippet of Jansen's past leading to a better understanding of the present. Neal is also great at showing what is going on in the present story with some of the propaganda and commercial ads that are being ran. This is a brilliant mechanism in the story as it lets the reader see what society is really like.

Connor and Lev - Are on the run together trying to get to Sonia who might have a key to why Proactive Citizenry would have erased her husband from history. They hope it is a key on how to stop unwinding all together. But along the way they run into a few obstacles and end up meeting Grace as well as a few friends from Lev's past.

- "No true hero ever believes that they are one," she tells him. "So you go ahead, Lev, and keep denying it with every fiber of you being."

It's clear the Lev still has a major part to play in the downfall of the system. He just isn't sure what it is yet.

Cam - is struggling with who and what he is, does he even have a soul is he more than just a collection of all of his parts. Cam is determined to make the people who rewound him pay. He still believes that will make Risa love him and that is the only thing he wants.

- Cam knows beyond a shadow of a doubt he could fill that void in her, if only she loved him enough to let him. It would be the one thing that would make him feel whole.

Cam is putting all his trust into loving Risa. But he still doesn't know that Connor is alive and maybe there isn't any room in Risa's heart to love him that way. He is definitely a wild card because what will he do if he doesn't get the girl he wants.

Risa - knows the ADR is in shambles but she wants to help revive it. Although she misses Connor, I like that she is never so consumed by it that she drops all of her goals to help the Unwinds to just look for him. Risa stays on her own path and while she hopes to see him again she sticks to the bigger picture of trying to find a way to fight against the system. She even runs into an old friend of Lev's along the way CyFy. I was so happy to see that kid again. He still has a very interesting story and it is interesting to see how some people with unwound parts choose to live.

- "You want to know the real reason unwinding keeps going strong, Miss Risa Ward? It's because of the things we're willing to do to save our children." She thinks about it and laughs ruefully. "Imagine that. We're willing to sacrifice the children we don't love for the ones we do..."

Starkey - Is evil and awful and a complete freaking psychopath. But he is a charismatic psychopath who is leading a band of stork kids escaped from the Graveyard. Every time I think Starkey can't do anything more horrendous well he does and I become even more disgusted with him. He is the ultimate bad guy, looking only for glory and immortality willing to sacrifice anyone and everyone else to get it. I love hating him.

There are some other characters that really add to the story. Grace is a new addition to the AWOLs as she is traveling with Conner. I really liked the way she is simple minded yet an idiot savant at strategy and is a great addition to the team. We get to see Hayden again I was worried about what happened to him after he was captured in Unwholly.

There was a lot of development of the individual characters in this book. Cam and Starkey especially I see as more three dimensional now. Conner, Risa and Lev have changed so much from when they first escaped together. My one and only complaint is I really wanted Conner and Risa to find each other sooner, but I can't even be mad about that because it was perfect how it happened.

The big reveal at the end was a little shocking but not unexpected and I really believe that this book was the best jumping board it could be going into the final book of the series. It was emotionally gripping and I stayed locked into the story the entire time waiting to see what would come next. Neal Shusterman has his work cut out for him to make the final book as strong as the rest of the series but he has a great lead in with this book and I can't help but feel that everything in the last book will be absolutely epic.

This is one of my absolute favorite series!! If you haven't read Unwind and UnWholly, you should. It is one of the most unique, thought-provoking dystopians out there.

UnSouled picks up where UnWholly left off - Lev has just rescued Connor from the Graveyard and Risa has just escaped from Proactive Citizenry (after appearing on national TV and declaring that she is against unwinding and rewinding). Cam is desperate to find Risa and to somehow win her love - he figures that bringing Proactive Citizenry is the best way to do that.

The negatives:

A bit of middle book syndrome.
While I loved this book, it did seem a bit like it was mainly just setting us up for book #4. Somehow Shusterman still made the journey feel fresh and interesting, but, in terms of important plot, not that much happened in this book. It was really all about the journey - bringing our characters back together.

What I LOVED:

The moral questions.
I can't possibly talk about the Unwind dystology without mentioning all of the moral questions that are raised. This book further explored the issues that were raised in the first two books (the value of human life, what makes a person a person?) and added one new one: Does a criminal's life hold value or is it okay to end it? (Capital punishment). In this book, it has been proposed that criminals can "volunteer" to be unwound - it's a win/win situation, right? The criminal has supposedly chosen to end their own life and the world benefits by being able to use their unwound parts. But, who monitors it? How is there any guarantee that this will actually be voluntary? And, more importantly, is the value of a criminal's life any less important than anyone else's? These are the types of quandaries that Shusterman is so incredibly good at examining. He'll make you examine tham too, and that is why I LOVE this series!!

Grace.
Grace is a brand new character - and she was so incredibly unique and interesting. I adored her. What makes Grace so unique is the fact that she is both cognitively limited and brilliant at the same time (a bit of a savant, if you will). When Connor first meets Grace, he doesn't expect much from her (and neither do the other characters in the book), but it doesn't take long for Connor to realize that Grace is actually something very special. Her unique intelligence actually saves the day more than once. I actually think that Grace was one of my favorite characters in this book!

Game changer.
The ending of this book is a game-changer. It could possibly turn the characters' world on its head! I definitely can't wait to read the last book in this series - Undivided.

If you enjoy dystopians, you should definitely be reading this series!! UnSouled was an excellent addition to the series and I can't wait to find out what happens next! 4/5 stars.

There is just no letting up. Neal Shusterman doesn't let the reader catch a breath. Everytime I'm foolish enough to think that things are getting better and all will be good, he just destroys me all over again. And because I'm a glutton for punishment, I still can't stop reading.
What those kids have to go through, what they have to endure - it's beyond the imaginable. And yet, somehow it is so fitting to the current situation in the world. It's like commentary on what is happening these days. It's frightening in a way how poignant Neal Shusterman is with his observations, with his assessment of people and society. I'm baffled.

The story is keeping me on my toes. It's making me breathless. There is suspense and action. But there is also so much pain and heartache. And in between all that destruction and despair, you still find kindness, beauty and love. Few and far in between, but it's there. And it helps to stomach the sadness of the story. To not get lost in the darkness.

I love so many of the characters. And ones that I hated at the beginning, I came to love now. But my favorites in this book are definitely Connor, Hayden and Grace. Especially Grace, because while everyone thing she's a fry short of a happy meal, she's smarter and kinder and stronger than anyone gives her credit for. And I have the feeling she'll be the one to help save the day.

5 this-is-addictive stars.

Let me start by saying that I have been on hiatus from the blogging world for a while. I was getting overwhelmed with how many reviews I had coming up, so I decided it was time to change priorities. I don't want reading to ever become a "chore", so I have decided to cut way back this year and read books that have been sitting on my shelves, kindle, and audible. It has been so much fun.

Now onto the one and only Neal Shusterman. I love his books. I had taken a long break from this series and decided now was a great time to finish it. Plus I know if it is a Neal Shusterman book it is going to be fabulous.
I have been very fortunate in my pick of books lately. I loved the first two books in this series, and yet again I find this series getting better and better. The thought that went into writing a book about "unwinding" is brilliant. Okay, maybe a little crazy, but I think the two (brilliance and crazy) often work together :).
I was so excited to be reunited with Connor, Risa, Cam, Lev, and now Grace. So many wonderful characters.
After the Graveyard is destroyed Connor and Lev run from the Juvenile Authority and the Proactive Citizenry. While on the run we find that the people they encounter and the people from their pasts are often inter connected. It's amazing how Shusterman finds a way to make all the characters connect. Either though knowing them, or having them be "part" of them.

While Cam, Lev, Grace, and Risa makes plans to take down Proactive Citizenry, they find safe haven in a woman's basement. There is far more to this woman than anyone knows. Conner had previously found sanctuary in this particular safe haven....but this time there is information there that they desperately need to bring down the Proactive Citizenry.

We are introduced to new characters in this book as well, and they are of course fabulous. While Connor and his gang are trying to avoid being unwound, there is a parts pirate that has it out for Connor. Connor may have taken him down when he was a cop....but now that he is a parts pirate he no longer follows the law, which makes him dangerous.

One of the new characters, Grace, had turned out to be one of my favorites. She cannot be unwound because she is considered "low cortical". If Grace is "low cortical", then I must be "critically low cortical"..hehe. She is such a great character. I love how her brain works, and how she comes off as "not smart" she is probably smarter than any other character.

This book left with a cliffhanger, but thankfully they are all out so I was able to move right on to the next book in the series. i don't think you will be disappointed in this series at all. Its a little twisted, but a lot fantastic. :). Get yourselves involved with the Unwind series. You will be happy you did :).

***potential spoilers if you haven't read the previous novels in the dystology***

Connor and Lev have narrowly escaped the Graveyard and parts pirate Nelson. They need answers in order to help stop Proactive Citizenry and put and end to unwinding. Connor knows he must travel back to the beginning, the famous Akron AWOL must go back to Akron. He needs to speak with Sonia, the woman who helped hide him and get him to the Graveyard in the first place. Sonia is the key, she was there at the beginning of unwinding and may know a way to stop it.

Risa has just spoken out against Proactive Citizenry on national tv, she has bitten the hand that was feeding her and is now on the run again, just another AWOL. She must stay hidden and figure where she's headed. She needs a safe house and is taken in by the kindness of a stranger. Though she hides there for a while, and could easily become complacent, she knows she must keep moving on to continue to fight...and hopefully reunite with Connor.

Cam is upset that Risa has left. He loves her and wants to be with her. He is becoming more and more disillusioned with Roberta and Proactive Citizenry. He already struggles with identity and the question of his humanity. When they want to treat him like their property, he decides he's had enough and goes AWOL himself to find Risa. As usual, Connor, Lev, Risa, and Cam all feel like they're on their own. But, soon their paths with converge and they'll find the answers they have been seeking. There may be a way to stop the need for unwinding for good.

Starkey and his storks survived the plane crash in the sea. They have created the Stork Brigade and are determined to free more storks. They begin by attacking a harvest camp and freeing all the unwinds there. But, freeing unwinds is not enough for Starkey. He begins killing those that work there. Starkey craves power and wants the limelight. He wants everyone to know and fear his name. This carnage and fear mongering may be the very thing that keeps unwinding alive. Starkey is playing into everyone's worst fears about feral teens and proving that the world would be a better place if they were unwound.

I liked this book, but not as much as the previous ones. It felt more of a primer for the next book in the series. Nothing is really reconciled in this book. We do find out more about unwinding and how it came to be, along with a possible solution. But, other than that, it's a lot of traveling and questing to get to the person that may have the answers. Still a good read, but I feel a little let down that more didn't occur within the book.

Some quotes:
"How can she not see that when you are defined, you lose the ability to define yourself?"

"If there's one lesson she's learned from her late husband, it's that one cannot let the events of one's past murder one's future."

"Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed."

I'm loving this thought-provoking series, so I can forgive some of the glaring editing issues (I noted a few typos towards the end). There were also a few moments when the book dragged a little bit, but for the most part it kept up the pace. That said, I was really surprised to get to the end and find out this was not the conclusion of the series. Thank god, because there are so many loose ends to wrap up still.

The political elements of this series have diverged far from where it began. At the outset, it seemed that a war between pro-choice and pro-life factions led to the Unwind accords. Not so. Shusterman has far more to say than that. There are a ton of layers going on here that are directly applicable to current US politics, corporate growth, and advertising. Shusterman has a very sinister and cynical outlook. In a nutshell, humans, mainly those without power, are entirely disposable and exist solely to benefit those at the top of the pyramid. In a typical sci-fi fashion, the book almost serves as a warning for the dangers of technology, particularly biotech.

Basically, a mega-corporation buys the patents and tech for unwinding. A watchdog group (think SuperPAC) set up to oversee the ethical use of this tech becomes turncoat at some point and basically becomes a lobbyist for mega corp. It takes out ads supporting and opposing various laws so that no matter what, mega corp wins. It plays both sides. As Shusterman points out through a flashback: "If he tries to rattle his saber at Proactive Citizenry, what good will it do? They haven't actually broken the law. They never do! Instead they mold the law to encompass whatever it is they wish to accomplish."

Of course, it's way more complex than that and I don't mean to oversimplify his words. I still laud him for writing about issues like this for a book intended to be read by teens. They should be thinking about the greater picture, especially as they reach voting age.

Oh, Starkey, how I hate you. Get over your abandonment issues and stop projecting your BS onto everyone else acting like you're so noble for "freeing" people when, in actuality, you're just on some mission of vengeance because you were storked. You pretend like you're a savior for unwinds, but if there were no storks those camps, you would not be there. Get over yourself, jerk. He's such a damn hypocrite, too, with the cold blooded killing. He has serious mommy issues. It's a credit to Shusterman's character building skills that I hate Starkey so much. I mean, I seethe while reading him. I have a problem.

A weird thought I had. The unwound "parts" seem to have sense memory and the recipients usually take on some of the traits of the former person. Moreover, being unwound is not death in this world. Is this immortality? Are the individual parts still aware even when not connected to anything?

Anyway, the end. YES, THE END! I don't want to get into details about it, and I don't think I would call it a cliffhanger, but he definitely threw out some breadcrumbs (loaves of bread, really) for the future of this series. I am excited to find out the who/what/why behind all the unwinding and what their ultimate goals are. The revelation(no spoilers) he threw down about unwinding and why it persists were a bit of a blindside. I also love Sonia's storyline (her story is so sad!) and I am very excited to see her get justice. She's playing a long game. Very calculated. I can't wait for the next one (it'll be a long wait, sadly, since this book is still new).

UnSouled is an enthralling addition to the Unwind Dystology . . . a word that has been made up for this series, apparently in order to keep readers guessing just how many books Shusterman plans on writing. That's fine with me. I love the ideas that are driving this plot and the deep questions that it forces readers to ask themselves. I even like the word "dystology."

Though it has been overshadowed by lesser dystopian novels, the Unwind series has created a chillingly believable future United States where teens are forced to fight for their lives, not against other teens or an enemy army but their own parents. For more background of the plot, see my review of the first book, Unwind. It can be found here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The second book, UnWholly, did not draw me in quite as completely as Unwind had. (https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...) It started asking more practical questions about how our AWOL Unwinds were going to survive rather than the deeper questions like whether it was worse to kill unborn babies or populate the world with unwanted teenagers. It also demonstrated that those disposed kids were not necessarily going to have the same goals or ideas about how to reach them.

UnSouled delves deeper into the characters of Lev, Conner, Risa, and Cam, giving a little more background information including where Lev disappeared to when he wasn't with Conner in Unwind. Starkey is back with his faithful Stork followers, ready to take on the world.

The best part of UnSouled is the hints the reader is given about the start of unwinding. As Conner makes it his mission to learn about Janson Rheinschild, who has been erased from history by Proactive Citizenry, he learns that the creator of unwinding technology had substantially different ideas in mind for the future of medicine than what the world has ended up with. But who is behind it? Who benefits when better technology doesn't seem to be possible?

The moral dilemmas are more subtle in this installment, the action less dramatic other than a few scenes with Starkey, and the characters become more complex. Is Cam a human? Does he have a soul? How much of a person's spirit enters those who take ownership of their physical parts, and who does that make the world's only Rewind?

As a slightly romantic undercurrent, Conner and Risa long for each other without wanting to admit it. Cam is obsessed with Risa because he believes that she will complete his humanness. And a new character is forced to face meeting someone who owns a part of her unwound fiance. Does she love the part of him that used to be her one true love or does she hate him for possessing that part?

In the end, it is not the end. The reader gets one tantalizing bit of Rheinschild history that points to at least one more book and more adventure and hardship for our heroes.

“UnSouled”, the third book in the brilliant Unwind Dystology by Neal Shusterman, is the best in the series thus far. It takes the existentialist themes to an entirely new level.

It’s difficult to review “UnSouled” without giving away major plot developments, so please excuse the generalities found in this review.

There are many difficult questions that can make the reader uneasy, as they should, because there are no real answers. What is a soul? Can only God create it? What control do we have over what makes us who we are? All of these questions are presented so well, with arguments from different points of view, that I believe “UnSouled” should be taught in upper level english classes as the perfect example of existentialism.

The plot is engaging, and it flows perfectly from the previous book, “UnDivided”. Nothing seems forced and the progression of society seems natural. Character development is deep and well-executed. The issue of human rights, and to what degree should society interfere with those rights with criminals, adds another dimension to an already excellent book.

I recommend “UnSouled” for all readers who like books that aren’t afraid to make them uncomfortable. It’s wonderful and definitely worth the ride.

Imagine my angst when I finish UnSouled, thinking it's a trilogy, only to find out that there will be a book four AND it doesn't come out until October! UGH!!!

I'm really enjoying this series. When I read the first one, I found it an interesting, and extremely twisted, concept. And I LOVE twisted! lol! I wasn't completely sold on the characters or the story, but I stuck with the series because I was curious as to where the author would go with it. I can only say WOW!

Each book has gotten better and better. This book was slow in parts, but that doesn't bother me at all. When you are building such an intricate plot line, there are times where you need to slow down to set up big events later. I understand that and respect an author's need to do so.

Each character has his/her own distinct voice, which I love! The creepy part is that I can empathize with all of them. lol! I even understand Starky's way of being. He's a necessary, realistic evil. In fact, the author has done such a brilliant job of showing each side's position that you can truly understand the motives behind each one.

October cannot get her soon enough for me! This story truly can go in so many different directions that I'm excited to see how the author plans to resolve it (if there will even be a viable resolution)! :-D

This book was so good I hated to see it end and can’t wait to read the next one in this interesting series. I love that there are such interesting characters and how they interact with each other. This book has a lot of humor in it as well to help balance out the horror. There is lots of adventure, traveling, obstacles for the characters to overcome. My favorite character is Grace, a girl who appears to be slow but appearances can be deceiving--she is brilliant! This is one thrilling series for sure!

After the destruction of the graveyard Connor and Lev are once again running away to find answers for the real reason why unwinding was created. Conner believes he can find those answers by returning back to an old friend who had once saved Connor’s life. A new character has arose on the Unwind series, his name is Cam also known as Camus Comprix. He was manifested as one of the unwind corporation’s greatest creation, Strung together by the best unwind parts from all over the country, Cam was created. HE meets Lisa Ward who speaks passionately about how she hates the Proactive Citizenry with a deep passion for ruining people’s lives by unwinding them. Cam develops a deep affection towards her and vows to destroy the corporation piece by piece. Conner, who is currently in a relationship with Lisa, feels jealous of Cam and does anything to protect Lisa from Cam.

This book was really pieced out together because it has many scenes of suspense along with teaching us the readers about friendships and bonding. As the book progresses, we soon learn secrets about the Unwind Cause which will be discovered by Lev and Conner along with the rest of the main characters. We also see a love triangle that is formed between Cam, Lisa and Connor. From a psychological standpoint, Connor has reason to act hostile towards Cam because he lost Risa when she was captured by the Proactive Citizenry and Cam was part of that corporation. Connor and Lisa have gone through so much as friends also being in a relationship. Conner just wants the best for Risa and will do anything in his power to protect her from harm's way. Also moving towards the middle to end parts of the book, we see characters such as Lev learn to become more independent with his actions. Instead of staying in the care of the people that picked him up of the ground after the recent clapper attack that damaged his body. He left the place so he could find Conner to help him in his search to find answers for the origins of Unwinding.

This book was so much fun to read, and I rarely say that about books. I have read the other two books in the series and have loved them just as much. Neal Shusterman took this book to a whole new level it is truly groundbreaking. Never before has it been thought to take feral children and force them to be taken apart, and then put together as other people. Connor and Risa have such a struggling relationship and it goes along with the main theme of the entire series.
The back and forth point of view is very unique to me, and Shusterman does that in all of his books and it is what makes him one of my favorite authors. The same situation can be seen from many different points of view, making it very interesting.
This book hit me emotionally and I loved it. I cannot wait to read the fourth book in this series and fall in love with yet again another book by Shusterman.

I was once again sucked into this wonderfully horrifying world that Shusterman has created. Following Lev, Connor, Risa and now Cam and Grace through the terrifying adventure they must endure to try to end the injustices that this world has made common. I know how I feel about Connor and Risa and I've come to like Grace as a character almost as much, but Lev keeps throwing me for loops and I'm not sure how to feel about Cam even now. This is definitely a story that will draw you in and rock your world. Any fans of Shusterman or the dysopian genre should give this series a read for sure.

Warning: Spoiler alerts. Unsouled was written beautifully and the characters were funny and lovable. At first I was scared it would be bad and I thought "Oh goodie, a love triangle. Nothing cliche or stupid about this." This love triangle actually serves a purpose and is important to the characters development. Cam is used to getting everything handed to him and has to learn that Risa choose Connor, yet his love for her still drives him to destroy proactive citizenry. Cam is still able to move on and find love again.

This book was a great follow-up to Unholly. I originally got this for Christmas but had been distracted for a while on til now. It was worth the wait because I enjoyed the book. The book was intense, and crazy at the same time. I also like learning more about Lev's travels during unwind where he was before he got to the Graveyard. I also like seeing Cam getting more parts in this book and showing us what's it like to be both different and a freak. I hope he gets more respect in the book. The other part that adds to the suspense was founding out the story of creators of the Unwinding. This book also makes us think as well.

I wanted to give this 3.5 stars, but since it was better than the 2nd book I leaned towared 4 stars.
Thank goodness this was better than the 2nd book, I was going to give up on the series if it didn't improve. Although, I still have the same ongoing problems with Unsouled that I did with Unwholly. Cam, Starkey, and Nelson are the glaring problems. Especially Starkey and Nelson, it is unrealistic that these characters are purely evil.
But so happy with Gracie, I hope the next book has more of her POV, she is the smartest of them all. And I hope more from Hayden. I'm glad that Connor doesn't have his head in the sand anymore, and I thought the interactions with him and Lev were very entertaining. Hope we get to see more.

This latest book in the Unwind dystology lives of to the quality of its predecessors. This continues to be one of the creepier premises for a YA dystopian I have read. Here we get to see a little about how a well meaning scientific discovery was twisted into such a horrible policy that was all but embraced by society. Making it even creepier are the snippets of what I'm pretty sure are actual published articles that are worked into the story that appear to support the policy of unwinding or are otherwise relevant to various parts of the story.Looking forward to where the series is headed and am glad the story was not rushed so that this was the last book as originally planned.

I really enjoy this series, and this book wasn't bad, but it was a disappointment. While some plot lines were really interesting (Starkey's especially, the Rheinschild's), many of the plot lines were just downright boring (like the whole scene on the reservation, and most of Connor/Lev's plot lines). It felt a bit like this book was thrown in but not really needed. I want to know what happens! It also is hard to swallow when you think this is the conclusion and it's not.

Some interesting things... Grace is interesting, and Starkey's madness. The history, what Cam has to discover... But if there is a fifth book, I may stop here. I'm ready for a conclusion.

In this third book of the Unwind series, Connor and Lev are on the run, and so is Risa. Cam struggles with his internal community and Starkey leads his Stork Brigade on a wild rampage. We also follow Nelson, a parts pirate who wants to unwind Connor and Lev, and Argent, who has joined him. Argent's sister Grace, however, has joined forces with Connor. We learn the back story of the Reinschilds, who invented the Unwind technology and of a plot more nefarious than most people could imagine. Totally excellent book! I look forward to the next one.

I can't say enough about this series. I'm hooked, lined, and sunk!! I think the characters are so rich and real, and the possibility of this ever being a future existence is disturbingly believable. Shusterman is a fabulous storyteller and I would recommend this series if you enjoyed Hunger Games, Maze Runner, or books of that style. Definitely for middle or high school aged readers, or readers that are intelligent and open to unconventional theories.

I like Shusterman's writing enough to persist with this series despite some difficulty accepting its particular dystopian premise. UnSouled fills in some of the future history that explains the dystopia, an attempt I appreciated, although I'm still not sure I find the sequence of events fully credible.

I was glad to spend more time with the main characters, especially the brilliantly conceived and imagined "ReWind," Cam. I also enjoyed some of the new additions, particularly Grace, an unexpected ally.

Neal Shusterman really outdid himself in the book UnSouled. The plot was exquisite and I really got to know the characters. I was truly amazed by this novel.
Lev, Risa, Starkey, Connor, and Cam are at it again! Cam is on a bloodthirsty hunt to win Risa’s Love again. But Risa is still searching near and far for Connor. However cam is having his own battles with himself, he doesn’t feel whole like a human being. Connor is escaping for Argent and Nelson again and he has Argents little sister captive with him. Lev and Connor meet up and spend much time at an Indian rez. The same reservation that lev spent 4 long months at. Risa while searching for Connor and avoiding juvey cops finds a helpful lady at a beauty store who helps her disguise. Starkey is still wreaking havoc everywhere. He is breaking people out of unwind camps and killing juvey cops.
I thought this book was very well done and had a nice fast pace. I didn't like how graphic the unwind scenes were but its all good. You feel me? I loved how you knew exactly what the characters background story and what they’re like. My favorite part is when lev breaks away from proactive citizenry.
Therefore this book should be read by all people ages 9+. That this book was the perfect way to end the series!

A really good book. Sad that I didn't realize going in that there is one more book to this series.

You follow our same group of heroes and heroines (and some new people too). They decide to stop running and try to do something to change the world by stopping unwinding.

Can't wait for the conclusion.

I find the idea behind this series and how we got to unwinding to be very fascinating. If you have read the previous books in this series, I recommend this one too!

Can't wait for Book #4! In this 3rd installment of the Unwind Dystology, Connor has been captured by Argent who wants to show him off to the world but Argent is thoroughly disgusting as a character. He has a sister, Grace, who he is so nasty, angry and rude to- she is labeled "low cortical" which means she is lacking in her mental capacity (boy do they get that wrong) but it is Grace who ends up helping Connor escape and goes with him and Lev to find out answers to the unwinds, Proactive Citizenry and try to find Jansen Reinschild's wife, Sonia (they invented unwinding). Argent meets up with Nelson, the parts pirate who is consumed with finding Connor and they are both detestable characters, along with Starkey who thinks he is the God of the Storks and has no moral compass. I enjoyed the parts involving Risa, I can't make up my mind about Cam; I like him sometimes and I don't like him other times. I know he really loves Risa and wants to prove it by taking down Proactive Citizenry and his creator, Roberta but so far he hasn't really escaped Proactive Citizenry. When Connor, Lev and Roberta go to the Indian reservation to be protected things begin to test the friendship of Connor and Lev. Lev is trying to recuperate after being hit by a car driven by Connor and Cam comes to the reservation hoping to find Risa and how Cam knows to go to this reservation is the result of his having some of the "parts" (like the hands) of an Indian who was rewound, yuck! I am looking forward to seeing more development of Grace as a character; she is definitely making herself very useful to Connor and Risa. The whole idea of unwinding and the unscrupulousness of the world towards teens make me cringe---Shusterman has done a fantastic job of creating a dystopian world at odds with teens, life and identity. Couldn't put this book down!

I was absolutely riveted by the first two books. This one... meh. It was alright, but felt drawn out. A bit too much 'waiting around' and the main characters being dormant for a good portion of the book. I liked that Hayden and Cam had interesting parts in this book, but I was bummed to not see Miracolina have her own chapter in UnSouled; I hope she returns in UnDivided. I really hope that UnDivided will have an excellent ending.

Unwind and Unwholly are two of my favorite books of all time and Neal Shusterman never ceases to amaze me with each book I read by him. Though Unwind was originally slated to be a trilogy, Unsouled wound up being too voluminous to be one book. S&S split Unwind's conclusion into Unsouled and Undivided and the Unwind Trilogy became a "Dystology".

Unsouled is definitely a worthy sequel to Unwholly, it delivers a thrilling story that is disturbing and absolutely engrossing. The story is a bit slower paced than the previous novels and this is definitely the most character driven of all of the Unwind books. Throughout the novel, readers will enthralled by the perfectly written dialogue and action scenes. Shusterman manages to alternate from the 3rd person point-of-view of more characters than ever; this also means that there are more converging storylines than before. Despite the numerous point-of-views and storylines, everything is neatly done and it never feels overwhelming. A lot of books lose a sense of poignancy when they are written in 3rd person, but Shusterman fills his writing with so much emotion and power.

In Unsouled, I lost so much respect for Lev and Connor, two characters who I used to love immensely. My perception of them dived during Unsouled and it's a bit disconcerting. Nevertheless Shusterman still manages to make his characters breathe and 3 dimensional, each in their own way. Though I'm no longer huge fans of Lev or Connor, it is extremely impressive how Shusterman juggles so many characters and manages to make each character completely distinct.

The story ARC in Unsouled never seems to fully take off and it seems to be stuck in one spot. Though I loved Unsouled, it feels as if something is missing because Unsouled is really apart of a larger picture. In order to have fully appreciated Unsouled, I feel like I needed to have read Undivided so I fully understood the grand schematics of the finale to Unwind. I personally believe Unsouled and Undivided would probably have worked better as one large novel so readers don't feel as if they're missing out on the complete story. Unsouled didn't work too well on it's own and I feel bad judging it based on that aspect.

Unsouled is a great novel, it's just a not-so great 1/2 of a conclusion to the Unwind Dystology. I loved where the story was going, it just ended way too soon and right when I was most engaged. I personally would recommend reading Unsouled and Undivided back-to-back instead of reading them separately. I wish I had waited to read Unsouled so I wouldn't have to wait so long to read a continuation of a story that I hold so dear to me. Unsouled is everything one would expect from Neal Shusterman and a sequel to Unwholly, it's just feels unfair to have an "unwound" book -- a book that is only bits and pieces of a larger body.

For those of us that have the ability to see just how closely we are treading to the beginning of this world, the more likely we are to glean nightmare fuel from this series...and it begs the question, who is prepared to make a stand in the path of this rapidly growing snowball before it becomes the avalanche set out in these books? Absolutely cannot wait for the next in the series....

This series just gets better and better! I was on the edge of my seat most of the time because these characters are so easy to identify with. Can't wait to read the last in the series, but it's sad to think the series is almost over...

I love Shusterman's unwind and skinjacker series. He is an amazing story teller and I never want his stories to end. I know others are bothered by the "side stories," but I love it! There is so much going on in each person's life, but all the stories overlap and they all just click at the end. Keep up the good work!

Very good follow up to the others. I hope there will be more. The story doesn't quite seem to have ended here yet. Shusterman has interesting characters and has created a world which none of us would want to inhabit. This is a series I couldn't put down once I started it. I'm not within the age group this book targets, but I think it crosses well and would be enjoyed by more mature readers.

This series is very very dark, but well written. Mr. Shusterman takes an unthinkable premiss and makes it believable. Do not attempt to read these books out of sequence and be prepared for some late nights because you can't put it down.

This is a bit slower and I feel a bit more disconnected from the characters compared to the first two books. Of course I can see that it is building up and pulling the story and people together, but I don't feel that drive that makes me unable to put the book down, like the first two.

After finishing the book thinking it was the last one, i was left kind of infuriated, however, since there will be one more i feel way more satisfied. This is a fantastic book that seems to catch up on the character's feelings rather than their actions, but thats okay, needed in fact. It is a great set up for the final book to start right in the action!

Having loved the first two books in this series, I don't give this one two stars lightly. Simply put, this one just felt like an overwrought way to extend the series to four books. We didn't learn anything new about the characters and the whole thing just fell flat. Grace was an interesting addition, except that she appears to be an autistic savant of some sort but we never really got to see the low end of her intelligence. Maybe we will see some of that in book four.

The first two books in this trilogy were great, well written stories with great climaxes. This book, which should have been a conclusion to the trilogy had no real climax, and no real conclusion. I was greatly disappointed by this book.