Goodreads Summery:
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?
My Review:
What a gorgeous dress! That was my first thought when I picked up the book, it was also mostly the reason I decided to read it. The book cover is so beautiful! But what kept me turning pages was the amazing writing. Lauren brought out a simple idea to life and even though the story took place in the future, it felt like something you could relate to. The main character Rhine is taken from home and put into a totally different life where she has so much more, but the price being her freedom. The freedom she fights for all through the book, to try and get back to her brother. A stubborn, determined girl willing to break all the rules to fight for what she wants, a personality with traits many can relate to. What I love most was that even though this is written in a girls perspective, this isn't a love story! Yes, she finds a guy but every page doesn't have his name written on it with thoughts of him like in many books.
This book was very fast paced, just in the first chapters the girls are all taken and the chosen ones brought home to there new husband, but because she is such an amazing author, she chose the key details to put in so you knew what was happening without the detail making it extremely boring. The pace of the story was perfect through out the book......till the end. The whole book went perfectly,not to fast, and not too slow. Not at all boring, but not so badly written that you couldn't imagine the scene. However at the very end, the grand escape, it happened so fast!!All books have action leading to this one main scene and in this book the scene went by too fast. Except that its a perfect book that should be read. It is the first in the Chemical Gardens series that will keep you turning pages. I'd rate it 4.5
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