Panem’s Book Club - Weekly Book Recommendations

Hey Tributes! As Amber posted last week, we here at Panem Propaganda are putting together a series of book recommendations for life between Mockingjay films and ultimately, life after The Hunger Games.

This will be a weekly thing, our own little Panem Book Club! Hopefully, these other novels will hold you over until next year for Mockingjay: Part 2 and will be good breaks between re-reading the HG series.

This week’s recommendation features the dystopian series, Unwind by Neal Shusterman.

Here is a synopsis of the book, from Amazon:

“In America after the Second Civil War, the Pro-Choice and Pro-Life armies came to an agreement: The Bill of Life states that human life may not be touched from the moment of conception until a child reaches the age of thirteen. Between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, however, a parent may choose to retroactively get rid of a child through a process called "unwinding." Unwinding ensures that the child's life doesn’t “technically” end by transplanting all the organs in the child's body to various recipients. Now a common and accepted practice in society, troublesome or unwanted teens are able to easily be unwound.

With breathtaking suspense, this book follows three teens who all become runaway Unwinds: Connor, a rebel whose parents have ordered his unwinding; Risa, a ward of the state who is to be unwound due to cost-cutting; and Lev, his parents' tenth child whose unwinding has been planned since birth as a religious tithing. As their paths intersect and lives hang in the balance, Shusterman examines serious moral issues in a way that will keep readers turning the pages to see if Connor, Risa, and Lev avoid meeting their untimely ends.”

This dystology features four books with the epic conclusion, Undivided, having just been released in 2014. The story is intense and thought-provoking, begging the question of just what lengths society may go to. Shusterman provides a fascinating commentary on technology and mankind. It includes powerful characters and is told from varying points of view. Unwind is also being optioned for the big screen, tentatively to hit theaters in 2016. So get in on the action now, and get ready for a thrilling ride!

Follow Neal Shusterman on Twitter, @NealShusterman, and LIKE him on FaceBook for more information about the author, the Unwind dystology, and Shusterman’s other books!

Unwind can be purchased from Amazon here.

Or, you can spring for the boxed set of all four novels on Amazon right here.

Comments

[Tos]

Thank you so much....
I really got lost on what to read in between.
I already reread all Hunger Games/Catching Fire/Mockingjay books...twice.
Seen all movies at least 6 times each.
This will keep me bussy :-)