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Undivided (Unwind Dystology #4) by Neal Shusterman

 "An intense, gut wrenching, emotional, honest and genuine ending to a truly amazing, thought provoking series."

4 Stars

Pros: The same cast of characters Connor/Risa/Lev/Cam/Grace/Sonia etc, so we don't have to keep too many new people in mind/All of the loose ends are tied together in a nice, tidy bow at the end. 

Cons: The ending was decidedly convenient for most involved but it wasn't surprising/I hope Shusterman leaves the series as is and doesn't add to it, it's great as is. 

Full Review: 

Again, it's nearly impossible to describe anything in this book without doing two things. 1. Giving something away and 2. Having it make any sense. If you haven't read the first three books in this series (Unwind/Unwholly/Unsouled) then I suggest you go back and read them and then come back to this review. 

Undivided leaves us right where we left off at the end of Unsouled. There has been a discovery that could very well be the answer to ending unwinding, but it's up to Connor et al, to get it working again and see if it can actually do what it's supposed to do. Connor/Risa/Grace/Sonia have their separate storyline but it all eventually comes together. 

Lev, who's remained on the Arapache reservation, decides that after trying to make the Tribal Council take an official stance on Unwinding and failing, he has to take matters into his own hands. He is quite a different person from the naïve, trusting boy that was willingly going to his Tithing when we first met him in Unwind. His actions are more drastic and have farther reaching consequences but in the end, he more or less does what he set out to do . 

Camus Comprix, the composite human, the first ever "rewind", a human made entirely of unwound parts, is back at the Molokai Complex in Hawaii with Roberta and the other shady members of Proactive Citizenry. He's soon to start his tenure at West Point where he'll be the shining star of the Marines. But he realizes when General Bodeker comes to pay a visit that things seem off and he's determined to find out what's causing all this tension. He does find out and the revelation is horrifying. 

All the storylines end up coalescing and combining to more or less end the book and the series with no real loose ends. There are endings, not all of them happy, but in the same vein as Shusterman's other series, Arc of a Scythe, the ending is pretty satisfying. It's all rather convenient, to be honest, but, this is YA fiction, so sometimes it's nice to have things work out for people.

Overall, this was a great, well paced, hard hitting, deeply unsettling, thought provoking series that I know will stay with me for a long time. It all brings to light the eternal questions of Pro Life/Pro Choice, when does life start, when does it end, do we have a soul, what happens at the end? Shusterman hits on basically every aspect you could think of when it comes to this extremely sensitive subject and he does it with grace, poise and an expert knack at never quite letting on where he stands on the matter. 

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