Response to CyFi Response- Julia

I completely agree with what you said about Shusterman. He has this amazing ability to keep the reader on the edge of their seats. You never knew when he was going to give another key part to what an Unwind was. I think part of the way that he did this was because he had so many different points of view. You would get a glimpse of Connor's point of view and then you would get Risa's, or Lev's, or Roland's, or anyone. You would just get all of these different points of view, all in the end adding up to make one complete whole truth as to what an Unwind is and how it all works. I absolutely loved how Shusterman wrote this. It isn't classified as a mystery, it is classified as sci-fi, I believe, but I think that it has many elements of the mystery genre. The entire story is like a puzzle where these kids are trying to figure out how the Unwinding process works, and how to avoid becoming an Unwind. If anybody else had written this story with the same plot, I don't really think that it would have seemed like a mystery, but Neal Shusterman's writing style turned it into a mystery-like story.