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A few words to describe Lisa McMann's The Unwanteds: whimsical, funny, creative, original, genius. This is a book you can't help but enjoy. You start it and you can't really stop. To bad for me, cause I conveniently chose a very busy to start this book. I sit here, writing this review, and can't get the word whimsical out of my head. I feel like it is one to describe The Unwanteds best. I feel like I should be using it a lot more here... For example, I could say that this book was whimsically brilliant, with whimsical characters, and the whimsicality of it was overwhelming. This is very refreshing in a book; it was a well-written dystopia but didn't have depressing themes or saddening scenes. (That rhymed; unintentional.) Yes, there were some tense parts of the book, and there were times of fear for the characters, but it had an overall happy theme that not battles, betrayals, or fiendish people could diminish. And there comes in the refreshing sense. Although good, many of the books I've read lately don't have this and I guess that's kinda what makes it refreshing. I very much recommend this book to any fans of dystopia fantasy, or fantasy in general. It is a very good book that left me wanting a sequel. Go pick it up when it's released on August 30!~Austinhttp://Readingteen.net/