#risawalks

Literally, it is the most scary thing, because truthfully, though the children in THG (eh, it’s a decent comparison) do have to go through immensely cruel experiences, I don’t think there’s something worse in this world than having to die and not die, than having to be completely aware that your body is being taken apart one organ at a time, than having to go through both of these things at an age of thirteen, fifteen, or whatever. 

The cruel reality of the future that’s more than imminent chills me to the bone. I hear things about 3-D organ printers from my aunt, who’s pretty well immersed in the Houston Medical Center network. I hear arguments every day between people who are pro-life and people who are pro-choice. All across the nation, there are already “camps” that are doing horrifying, sickening things that could just as well be a precedent for what’s to come. Babies are left every day on people’s porch steps and turned away. Discipline for kids in lots of places is more ugly than you can imagine. The thing about Unwind that’s so terrifying, to me, is the fact that it’s more real and more close to our lives than any other dystopian I’ve ever read. 

Sure, the USA could disintegrate and transition into a dictatorship ruling over thirteen districts per means of bloody “games”, among other things. Sure, genetics could be singled out as the key to ending mass killing in the war, but in effect creating another world that’s just as bed. Sure, we could stumble into a future where books are burned because the government doesn’t want us to be educated and able to fight back.

Sure, all of those things could happen, but the thing is–not anytime soon. These possibilities are way too many decades away. The future presented to us in Unwind is terrifying in itself and terrifyingly close. It could happen. In the next thirty years. In the next fifty. It could happen, and the victims could be our grandkids, and what terrifies me most is that, maybe, by then, we’ll be a part of it. 

It's from the Mara Dyer trilogy! The first book (Unbecoming of Mara Dyer) is where that quote is from :) 

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