Book description
The silence between heartbeats is where Neal Shusterman's UnWholly breathes. Not the quiet of a library, but the charged hush before a storm-because this sequel to the legendary Unwind doesn't just continue the story; it detonates it. You hear it in the audiobook's pulse: the rasp of Cam's borrowed breath, the metallic click of a bounty hunter's weapon, the frantic thud of a heart that shouldn't exist.
Shusterman's genius, as School Library Journal noted, lies in making the impossible feel terrifyingly real. Here, he twists the knife deeper. Cam-born from the discarded parts of others, a Frankenstein's shadow in a world that sees him as a ghost-becomes the soul of this reckoning. His struggle isn't just who he is, but if he can be human at all. And when the sadistic hunter Lend pulls him into Connor, Risa, and Lev's orbit, the stakes shatter. Morality isn't a question anymore; it's a battlefield.
This isn't just dystopian fiction. It's a mirror held to our own world-where bodies become commodities, where the "problem" of youth is solved by erasure. Shusterman, as Publishers Weekly declared, takes "a gripping, brilliantly imagined futuristic thriller" and makes it pulse with urgent, living truth. The audiobook amplifies this. The narrator's voice becomes Cam's own fractured thoughts: a whisper of doubt, a surge of fury, the fragile hope that flickers like a candle in a hurricane. You don't just hear the words; you feel the weight of every stolen tissue, every unspoken fear.
The magic? Shusterman never lets the philosophy overwhelm the heartbeat. When Lev's quiet courage or Risa's fierce loyalty surfaces, it's not a lecture-it's a lifeline. Like the reviewer for Scorpion Shards said of his work: he makes "a spellbinder" out of the unthinkable. Here, he turns the very idea of life into a question we carry with us long after the final chapter.
UnWholly doesn't just ask where life begins or ends. It asks what we're willing to dismantle to keep the machine running. And in this audiobook, that question resonates like a struck bell-clear, sharp, impossible to ignore. It's not just a sequel. It's a necessary reckoning, delivered in voices that linger in your bones. You won't just read it. You'll live it.
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Playing a wide variety of audio formats
Works on all devices with iOS 13 and newer
Huge amount of features for a small price
Frequent updates to add new features and improve existing ones
Advanced playback controls
Live sound processing
Changing the timbre of the reader's voice and noise reduction
Translated into more than 20 languages
If you love listening to fiction audiobooks, ListenBook has features to make the process easier.
Edit book data: title, author, cover
Use equalizer to make the sound comfortable for you
Adjust the playback speed
Enjoy dark and light app themes
Supported formats: MP3, M4B, AWB, FLAC, OGG audio files and many more (must be DRM free)
Auto-Bookmarks make it easy to find your place
AirPlay support allows redirection of audio output.
VoiceOver support
Dark mode for night owls
Convenient bookmarking system helps you mark the most important places.
Unlimited bookmarks for each audiobook
Put your own cover on the wager
Share your audiobook with friends
Lock-screen control
Customise app with extensive options
Sleep timer with shake to reset, set custom notification sounds, and a few unique options
Auto rewind depending on paused time, customize rewind times to your liking
Removing background noise from recordings made in classrooms and meetings
Changing the timbre of the reader's voice for a better listening experience