Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Not Quite Up to Par with Unwind

Unstrung: an Unwind Story by Neal Schusterman

I read this because it indicated that it told the story of Lev between his adventures with CyFy and when he shows up at the airplane graveyard. Technically, this is true, but this is not so much about Lev as it is about Wil.

Lev ends up on a reservation. He becomes friends with Wil, a guy about his age who has an amazing gift for music. Wil is tasked with playing the music for his grandfather to die to. He doesn't want to, but he does it anyway.

One day, some bad dudes come onto the reservation to kidnap kids of age to be unwound. These people, the Native Americans, don't believe in unwinding, so there's now a bounty on the head of these kids. To save his friends, Wil volunteers. He becomes unwound. Lev is sad. The end.

Seriously, this happened in less than fifty pages. I wish I'd left well enough alone.

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