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Original Title:	Wither
ISBN:	1442409053 (ISBN13: 9781442409057)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Chemical Garden #1
Characters:	Rose, Jenna, Cecily, Linden Howard, Rhine Ellery, Gabriel
Setting:	Florida(United States)
Literary Awards:	Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee (2013), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction (2011)

Wither (The Chemical Garden #1)

Lauren DeStefano

Hardcover | Pages: 358 pages

Rating: 3.81 | 95345 Users | 8126 Reviews

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Title	:	Wither (The Chemical Garden #1)
Author	:	Lauren DeStefano
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 358 pages
Published	:	March 22nd 2011 by Simon Schuster Books for Young Readers
Categories	:	Young Adult. Science Fiction. Dystopia. Fantasy. Fiction. Teen. Apocalyptic. Post Apocalyptic

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By age sixteen, Rhine Ellery has four years left to live. She can thank modern science for this genetic time bomb. A botched effort to create a perfect race has left all males with a lifespan of 25 years, and females with a lifespan of 20 years. Geneticists are seeking a miracle antidote to restore the human race, desperate orphans crowd the population, crime and poverty have skyrocketed, and young girls are being kidnapped and sold as polygamous brides to bear more children.

When Rhine is kidnapped and sold as a bride, she vows to do all she can to escape. Her husband, Linden, is hopelessly in love with her, and Rhine can't bring herself to hate him as much as she'd like to. He opens her to a magical world of wealth and illusion she never thought existed, and it almost makes it possible to ignore the clock ticking away her short life. But Rhine quickly learns that not everything in her new husband's strange world is what it seems. Her father-in-law, an eccentric doctor bent on finding the antidote, is hoarding corpses in the basement. Her fellow sister wives are to be trusted one day and feared the next, and Rhine is desperate to communicate to her twin brother that she is safe and alive. Will Rhine be able to escape--before her time runs out?

Together with one of Linden's servants, Gabriel, Rhine attempts to escape just before her seventeenth birthday. But in a world that continues to spiral into anarchy, is there any hope for freedom?

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how does linden still have a father if men die at 25?

I'm not a chick that falls easily into hype but sometimes it can be hard to avoid, like with this book. It seems like EVERYONE absolutely LOVES this book. I have not come across one blogger saying anything to the contrary. Of course I could be missing a few but those that I do wander across, love. I had to wade into Goodreads reviews to find black sheep like myself that found serious fundamental issues with this story on multiple levels. Did I buy into the hype initially? To an extent. Books get

First of all I'd like to say that this book could have been four stars on writing style alone. However, I have to agree with most other reviewers and say that the world created for this dystopian story is nonsensical to the point that it gets score deduction on pure, eyebrow-raising wtfuckery. I did really like the concept, the plot based around being kidnapped and forced to be a wife in a polygamous marriage along with two other wives (and an already existing dying first wife, for four wives in

As seen on The ReadventurerOh boy, do I have problems with this new crop of YA dystopian/post-apocalyptic lit! I am starting to think that the authors who attempt to explore this genre have no understanding of what it takes to write such books. Just making up some new horrible way people are treated in a future society and adding in some angsty love triangle isn't enough! I don't want to sound too lectur-y, but these new, young writers probably do not realize that to create a

I knew something about this book before I cracked open the pages, even though I was reading an ARC. That's the kind of buzz this book has been getting. Honestly, I would have read this book for the cover alone. God, that is some gorgeous cover art. And I was prepared to hate this book. I thought it was going to be a book with a pretty cover, titillating premise (OMGzzz polygamy!), but with no substance. Overall, Wither exceed my expectations.Let's start out with the bad things.The world

RECIPE FOR WITHER: a YA Dystopia:1) Take plot elements from 'The Handmaid's Tale' and 'Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride'. Mix them together. Caution: It will be messy.2) Set the story in the future where science has eradicated cancer, allergies and STDs but dooms the next generation to live shorter lives. 25 years for males and only 20 for women. DO NOT give details, keep things vague. 3) Put in a dull and humorless female main character.

I sort of went back and forth on the rating for this book. I couldn't decide to give it 3 or 4 stars. In the end I decided on 4 because this book did keep me up till around 2am. So, for a book to do that to me when I know full well I have to wake up super early with my kids, it pretty much earned those 4 stars.Let me start by saying I didn't expect to like this book as much as I did. In fact, I was kind of ignoring it as it sat on my shelf collecting dust. I wasn't sure how I felt about the