HarperVoyager Wither, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Paperback, Lauren DeStefano
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Description: A stunning debut YA novel, destined to blow the dystopian genre wide open - The Handmaid's Tale for a new generation. This edition will contain a sneak preview of Fever, and a brand new short story by Lauren De Stefano: 'The First Bride". HarperVoyager Wither, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Paperback, Lauren DeStefano - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Product ID: 9780007386987
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Dimensions: 129x198mm
Keywords: Wither,Kidnap,Polygamy,Dystopian
ISBN: 9780007386987
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Author: Sandra Richardson
Rating: 5
Review: MY REVIEW I purchased the hardcopy of Wither from The Works for a great price of £2.99, so a bargain price for a hardback. The cover doesn't make much sense to me prior to reading the book. It features a girl in a very expensive looking dress. Upon reading the book you can imagine the character on the front being Rhine or even Jenna. So this book is set in futuristic/dystopian setting. People are either very old known as "first generations" or under 20 for females and 25 for males. A virus kills females as they reach 20 years old and males when they are twenty five. So pro-creating is a prominent urgency for the reach who literally buy themselves a bride, or a few brides. People exist called Gatherers, they snatch girls from anywhere and everywhere, they are then paraded in front of the rich male, who will pick who and how many he wants. Rhine has been captured by the Gatherers and finds herself bought and taken to Linden Ashby's mansion, where his first wife is dying of the virus. Linden chooses three girls, Rhine, Cecily who is younger than Rhine and has beautiful red hair and is very young and eager to please in any and every way. Jenna is the third girl, she was grabbed with her sisters. Her sisters are disposed of and that is something that Jenna can never forgive or forget. Jenna only gives in to what she has to when she absolutely has to. It's a strange set up that they are living in. The first wife is dying and yet her replacements are just living down the hallway. Rhine has only one thought on her mind.."escape" she is always looking always ready for the opportunity. Rhine desperately want to get back to her twin brother Rowan. I really did enjoy reading this book, you really get an insight into each of the girls characters and their feelings towards the ailing first wife, each other, Linden and of course Linden's sinister, and dangerous father Vaughn. Rhine befriends one of the "servant" Gabriel and they start planning an escape then suddenly Gabriel isn't around any more. Rhine has to work out a way to get to Gabriel to see if he is ok and finds out someone has been telling Vaughn about their friendship, so now Gabriel is in danger too. Who has told Vaughn of their friendship? Will they ever escape? Can they escape together? Where can they go? What will happen if they are caught? Vaughn is supposed to be working on a cure for the virus...but he has been working on it for years and is unable to save the first wife. He is a very sinister, shady character who can be quite cruel and heartless even towards his own son. So does Linden know all of what his father is up to? Well you would say surely yes because they live under the same roof, Vaughn even has a lab in the house basement. Well I have tried to give you a "feel" of the book, without giving away spoilers and I truly hope it encourages you to go out and buy it! So did I enjoy the book? Yes. Would I recommend the book? To all dystopian fans this has to be a must read. Would I read bk#2? Yes please! Would I read more by Lauren DeStefano? Definitely would take a look at anything else wrote by her.
Author: I. English
Rating: 2
Review: I had heard a lot of good reviews about this book, it seemed to be one that had a well-built dystopian world and well developed character. And as I, and apparently most female teenage/ Young adult readers, have now become obsessed with dystopian novels I had to read it. But once again it feels like this book has something missing. I have noticed with a lot of dystopian and fantasy novels nowadays that either the world or the characters are sacrificed to get a story written quickly. With this book I felt like the world was a bit sacrificed. I liked the characters, although they were nothing special and I have now forgotten their names (Note to self: Take notes when reading for review purposes) but I really did not like the world they were set in. It seemed very flimsy. Ok so in order to make sure that the human race was immune to everything we managed to create a race of super humans that have children with an abnormally short lifespan? That makes sense.... Not. But what makes even less sense is in this dystopian world future is the fact that women's life expectancies are shorter than men's, when it is currently the other way round. I mean ok I understand that our main protagonist is a teenage girl who doesn't understand much about genetics but that feels like a bit of an excuse as to why there just isn't an explanation for things. This world was obviously built around the characters to give the author a way of telling the story she wanted to write, and I have no problem with that, except for the fact that it is blindingly obvious. The world is just badly created. I mean, as if the entire world decided that in one generation they would all have their babies made into the super babies and as if the entirety of the world EXCEPT for the United States ONCE AGAIN GETS DESTROYED. I'm getting a little tired of everywhere but America being wiped off the map. What about Europe, Russia or China, who are all equally capable of fighting back and surviving? If you ignore the fact that the world is ill conceived and concentrate on the characters this story is almost enjoyable, hence the 3 stars, but I got it for cheap on my kindle and would not recommend it to anyone who was going to pay full price. It is just such an easily skippable book.
