Out of The Woods Reviews

  Conner is a fifteen-year-old from Akron. He couldn't stand the fact that he was going to be Unwound because, and that his own parent didn't even tell him, so he ran away.  Risa lived in a state home all her life and was going to be Unwound because of budget cuts buts thanks to Conner, she got a second chance at life. Lev was a Tithe who got kidnaped by Conner and Rise, then decided to be a clapper then at the last minute saw the value of all the Unwinds in the Chop Shop he would kill. Conner, Risa and Lev all didn't want to be Unwound but that choice wasn't theirs, so they made it theirs and still the choice back. Conner is from Akron, he found out that he was being Unwound by accident. He was in his dad’s office one day when he found three tickets to the Bahamas but when he looked deeper he found an Unwind order for him. With all this terrible information he ran away from his house, causing a big ascendant on the highway. Saving a tithe named Lev who even wants to be...

  Rowen and Citra were two ordinary teens living their lives. They came into contact with scythe Faraday (in a world where there is no natural death, they have scythes to “glean” people, which means they can’t die on their own).  He couldn't make up his mind between the two prodigies. He took them both on and trained them, he would decide which one to make a scythe, at an end of year gathering called “conclave” which happens every solstice. Scythe Faraday chose Rowen and Citra, because he knew that they would do their job the right way, and not use the power for their own self-gain or prowess. Faraday knew that Rowen and Citra wouldn’t take any joy in gleaning.  This would affect the way they gleaned as well as the way they would become scythes themselves.  There was a lot of tension between Rowen and Citra at first, but eventually, it ironed itself out.  Scythe Faraday made it very clear that there was to be no romantic feeling between them.  It was hard f...

Harvey Fierstein Newsies was a musical made in 1992 based on the newspaper strike in 1899 in New York.  Most of the paper boys were poor, to begin with, and didn't make much money, but when the paper company raised the price for the paper bundles, that pushed them to the edge so they went on strike. Newsies the musical is about a young man named Jack, his friend Crutchy and his girlfriend Katherine Plumber.  Jack and his friend Crutchy sold papers, but when paper owners raised the price of the bundle's Jack and his friends who couldn't afford to pay the price increase decided to start a union and strike.  After the decision to strike, Jack meets a reporter and asks her to report on their cause and she does, later becoming Jack’s girlfriend.  There wasn’t just one paper owner who raised the prices, it went up all over New York.  Newsies from Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx all got together and went on strike.  Newsies is a great theatre production filled ...