![]() ![]() I thought the premise of genetic experimentation gone wrong sounded intriguing. With the help of Gabriel, a servant Rhine is growing dangerously attracted to, Rhine attempts to escape…before her time runs out. Soon it becomes clear that not everyone at her new husband’s home is how they appear. She has everything she ever wanted–except freedom. When sixteen-year-old Rhine is taken, she enters a world of wealth and privelege that both entices and terrifies her. While scientists seek a miracle antidote, young girls are routinely kidnapped and sold as polygamous brides to bear more children. In the not-too-distant future, genetic engineering has turned every newborn into a ticking time bomb: Males die at age twenty-five, and females die at age twenty. The blurb on the back cover summarizes the plot as: Wither is a young-adult, dystopian novel by Lauren DeStefano, the first in a series known as The Chemical Garden Triology. ![]()
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