Book Review #5

Title: Wither

Author: Lauren Destefano

Pages: 368

Genre: Dystopia, romance

Published: 2011

 

Summary:

Trying to create the perfect human race has lead to men dying at age 25 and women die at 20. Girls are being abducted at a young age and sold of into marriages to keep humanity ahead of the disease that is killing them.

 

Rhine is one of the girls being kidnapped and she is sold as well as two other girls to Linden, who is a rich man with a dying wife. She is desperate to escape this place even though he is very nice to her. She then meets the servant Gabriel who she is attracted to  and she is determined to escape in what time she has left to find her brother.

 
Writing:
This book is written from Rhine's point of view so we get to follow her throughout the book. You get the feeling that you get to know her more, know her thoughts and feelings and I actually kind of like these sort of books (but I love any kind of books).

 

SPOILER ALERT!

 

Best Part:

For me the best part of the book was actually two parts. I like the part where Gabriel and Rhine got time to talk to each other and laugh and he would sneak June beans to her and it was just SO SWEET. I love him! He is so nice to her, he hides the candy under her napkin or her spoon and he brought an atlas and showed her the river that had her name and when they KISSED! Oh lord I was squealing inside my head of happiness.

 

The second part was the end of this first book when Rhine was sneaking out of the mansion to meet Gabriel and run away. The head cook had given her hot chocolate and then she meet Gabriel and they ran together to the gates and when it felt like they were doomed another servant, the new one, ran to them with a key card and opened the gates for them telling her that her sister wife Cecily sent him to help her and they both ran away together, hand in hand. That part was wonderful, I could imagine it how it would look like and then they go to the 24/7 movie theater and she fell asleep and he said she was cute like AAH! *fangirl* and then they took a boat and are going far away from the mansion.

 

 

Worst part:

The worst part was, it’s not bad, it was just I felt what Rhine felt, kinda. The first part was when she hadn’t seen Gabriel for days and so she went down to the kitchen to ask them and when they said they hadn’t seen him since he was called down to the basement I panicked just like Rhine, it was AWFUL, for me at least.

 

Second was every time that Linden’s father Vaughn came in the book. He is an AWFUL, AWFUL man! I was so annoyed every time he spoke because Linden was tricked by his father and he doesn’t know it so he is living a “good” life thinking the three girls were in a marriage school preparing for this sort of stuff which isn’t true and oh my goodness will it ever end?

 

 

Rating:

It was a very good book but it wasn’t: “oh my god this is the best ever”. It is entertaining and leaves you wondering what will happen next and the cute moments that are in this book just makes it better.