The story: It's been two years since Connor, Lev, and Risa met while on their way to being "unwound"--their broken society's answer with what to do with problem teens (cut them up into individual parts and transplant all the bits and pieces into other people who need medical replacements--yikes!). Camus Comprix is also dealing with the ultimate challenge of his short life...and there's always a stray parts dealer, like Argent Skinner or Jasper Nelson, trying to make a buck on the unsuspecting kid out alone a little too late at night. Will Sonia Rheinschild's 3D organ printer ever see the light of day, and bring an end to the messed-up society that kills its own young?
June Cleaver's ratings: Language PG-13; Violence R; Sexual Content PG; Nudity PG; substance Abuse PG; magic and the occult G; GLBT content PG; adult themes (feral teens, euthanasia, parental abandonment) PG-13; overall rating PG-13.
Liz's comments: This is the fourth book in what was originally planned as a trilogy. I'm not sure how Shusterman could have crammed everything into three books, but he might have been better off doing so, anyway: this whole volume had the feeling of tying up the loose ends, without much new to think about. Yeah, you were wondering about what happened to everyone, but it seems like there was 100 pages' worth of closure mixed in with 300 pages' worth of extraneous stuff to make up the page count. (Or, there's always the suspicion that it was just about making the money off the extra, not-quite needed last volume.) Still, a must-read if you've made it through the first three!
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