Author: Lauren Destefano
Genre: Sci-fi, Young Adult, Romance, Dystopia
Favorite Quote: "Tell freedom I said hello."
Blurb:
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
So I start reading this book at 10:00 only God knows what complied me to do so because once I start a book I can't put it down until I finish. When I finished it was 3:00 in the morning I had this face on:
I was swearing up and down that I had found the holy grail of books, I was ready to get the computer out and give this book 5 halos. Luckily I was too tired to give the review at 3 in the morning. When I woke up I was like this:
I vowed I would never ever give reviews in themiddle of the night. With that said lets start the review!
Rhine never really had a spark for me. Instead of showing she was a strong brave heroine, she appeared very desperate and very scared....ALL THE TIME. Also she was not very smart her escape plans aren't very well thought out and are hurried she doesn't think: she goes. The romance between her and Gabriel sucked too. The "romance” with her fake husband was better than her and Gabriel. Maybe it was because Gabriel is flatter than a piece of cardboard, he had no depth I almost feel asleep just reading about him.
My favorite character in this book was Jenna. I wish I could tell you why she attracted me so much: maybe it was her pure undying hatred for her new "husband," Lindon, maybe her observant nature and how she never missed a thing, or maybe it’s her view on the world and what she had to go through to survive in it. You may not feel like I do about this character she’s honesty not that great but there is something about her......
Out of the many things I dislike about this book there is one thing I like about it: I like the idea of dying at a such a young age. Now adays all you hear is immortality {vampires!} and it refresing to see something new and it makes you ask your self: is escape worth it if you only have so many years left?
Rating: 2 Roses
