Review of Wither

Title: Wither (The Chemical Garden #1)
Author: Lauren DeStefano
Published: 2011
Pages: 358
Rating: 4/5


Summary From Goodreads:

By age sixteen, Rhine Ellery has four years left to live. A botched effort to create a perfect race has left all males born with a lifespan of 25 years, and females a lifespan of 20 years--leaving the world in a state of panic. Geneticists seek 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 sold as a bride, she vows to do all she can to escape. Yet 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 has no way to communicate to her twin brother that she is safe and alive.

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?

Review:

First I will like to say that I love the cover on this book its so pretty and so creepy at the same time! Love it! Anyways, I really liked this book. It kept me reading in all hours of the night! When I first picked this up I have never heard of Wither, so I did not have high expectations in it. The plot is captivating and creepy that makes you  hunger for more. Some of the issues though, are meant for mature readers. I personally really enjoyed this book and will be buying the next in the series. If you want creepy, daring, romance, and twists and turns around every corner, this is a book for you.