Review: Fever

Title: FeverSeries: Chemical Garden # 2Genre: Young Adult- DystopianAuthor: Lauren DeStefanoPublisher: Simon  & SchusterRelease Date: February 21, 2012Book: ARC from Paragraphs Books “Rhine and Gabriel have escaped the mansion, but danger is never far behind. Running away brings Rhine and Gabriel right into a trap, in the form of a twisted carnival whose ringmistress keeps watch over a menagerie of girls. Just as Rhine uncovers what plans await her, her fortune turns again. With Gabriel at her side, Rhine travels through an environment as grim as the one she left a year ago – surroundings that mirror her own feelings of fear and hopelessness. The two are determined to get to Manhattan, to relative safety with Rhine’s twin brother, Rowan. But the...

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Review: Wither

Title: WitherSeries: The Chemical Gardens #1Genre: Young Adult- DystopianAuthor: Lauren DeStefanoPublisher: Simon and SchusterRelease Date: March 22, 2011Book: ARC sent by publisher “What if you knew exactly when you would die? Thanks to modern science, every human being has become a ticking genetic time bomb—males only live to age twenty-five, and females only live to age twenty. In this bleak landscape, young girls are kidnapped and forced into polygamous marriages to keep the population from dying out. When sixteen-year-old Rhine Ellery is taken by the Gatherers to become a bride, she enters a world of wealth and privilege. Despite her husband Linden’s genuine love for her, and a tenuous trust among her sister wives, Rhine has one purpose: to...

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