History YMMV / Unwind

* FairForItsDay: Some feminists and abortion rights advocates disliked what they saw as a [[GoldenMeanFallacy fallacious "both sides"-ness]] in the first book's approach to the American abortion debate and for being overly generous to pro-life arguments. However, given how polarized that debate was in 2007, any book that took a strong stance one way or the other would likely have a hard time getting published. Other readers have argued that it's not so much an "abortion book" as it is a dystopian parable warning against resolving heated ethical tug-of-wars with solutions that leave things even worse off than they were before. For what it's worth, Neal Shusterman is pro-choice.

* TooBleakStoppedCaring: The premise alone is beyond believability in its concept, that parents all across the US and Europe would be ''perfectly ok'' with signing away their children to be used as organ donations to the point that it was ''literally signed into law''. The sheer darkness and horror of this world is only outdone by it's implausibility.

** ''[=UnBound=]'''s "[=UnNatural=] Selection": [[MadDoctor Dr. Rodin]] is a seemingly polite member of the Burmese Dah Zey and is in charge of the "Magic Kingdom" harvest camp. There, Rodin [[PlayingWithSyringes horrifically experiments on]] and modifies countless people into monstrous forms of "[[MadArtist art]]", such as grafting extra limbs onto them or combining them with animals, leaving many of those who survive [[AndIMustScream in constant pain]], something [[EvenEvilHasStandards other members of the Dah Zey find disturbing]].

** ''[=UnBound=]'''s "[=UnNatural=] Selection": [[MadDoctor Dr. Rodin]] is a seemingly polite member of the Burmese Dah Zey and is in charge of the "Magic Kingdom" harvest camp. There Rodin [[PlayingWithSyringes horrifically experiments on]] and modifies countless people into monstrous forms of "[[MadArtist art]]", such as grafting extra limbs onto them or combining them with animals, leaving many of those who survive [[AndIMustScream in constant pain]], something [[EvenEvilHasStandards other members of the Dah Zey find disturbing]].

** ''[=UnBound=]'''s "[=UnNatural=] Selection": [[MadDoctor Dr. Rodin]] is a seemingly polite member of [[TheSyndicate the Burmese Dah Zey]] and is in charge of the "Magic Kingdom" harvest camp. There Rodin [[PlayingWithSyringes horrifically experiments on]] and modifies countless people into monstrous forms of "art" such as grafting extra limbs onto them or combining them with animals, leaving many of those who survive [[AndIMustScream in constant pain]], something [[EvenEvilHasStandards other members of the Dah Zey find disturbing]].

** "Unnatural Selection" novella, from ''[=UnBound=]: Stories from the Unwind World'': [[MadDoctor Dr. Rodin]] is a member of the Burmese Dah Zey and is in charge of the Magic Kingdom harvest camp. There, Rodin [[PlayingWithSyringes horrifically modifies]] dozens of people, turning them into various monstrosities, [[FateWorseThanDeath leaving them in constant pain]], all for the sake of his [[MadArtist vision]], leaving [[EvenEvilHasStandards other members of the Dah Zey disturbed]].

* {{Narm}}: [[spoiler:Connor being unwound in ''Undivided'' is an absolutely ''brutal'' scene...with the brief exception of "''Funkytown''" being played.]] Hopefully that particular nit of SoundtrackDissonance doesn't make it into the movie... [[DevelopmentHell if it gets made, that is]].

* TooBleakStoppedCaring: The premise alone is beyond beliveability in it's concept, that parents all across the US and Europe would be ''perfectly ok'' with signing away their children to be used as organ donations to the point that it was ''literally signed into law''. The sheer darkness and horror of this world is only outdone by it's implausibility.

* ParanoiaFuel: Clappers. They could be anyone, anywhere, and the only difference is that their blood is volatile, so they explode if they clap hard enough. (Hence their name)