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Fever / Lauren DeStefano.
In a future where genetic engineering has cured humanity of all diseases and defects but has also produced a virus that kills all females by age twenty and all males by the age twenty-five, teenaged Rhine escapes her forced marriage and journeys back to New York to find her twin brother.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781442409071 (hc.) :
- ISBN: 144240907X (hc.)
- Physical Description: 341 p. ; 22 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York ; Simon & Schuster Children's Pub., c2012.
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- 1 of 1 copy available at South Central Regional Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Altona Library | YA F Des v.2 (Text) | 35864001510997 | Young Adult | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2012 February #1
This sequel to Wither (2011), set in a futuristic society, continues Rhine's first-person account as she flees a forced marriage and, accompanied by faithful servant Gabriel (who also loves her), heads to New York to find her twin brother. The trip is eventful, from a brief (sexless) stint in a prostitution ring that leaves Rhine tending someone else's love child, to being subjected to extensive medical testing by her vengeful father-in-law. A certain lack of energy and a bleak tone drag the plot, even in situations where characters' lives hang in the balance, but DeStefano's rich use of language helps set this dystopian tale apart. Readers will be able to follow Rhine's story without reading the first book in the Chemical Garden Trilogy, but the references to her foreshortened lifespan and the depth of her father-in-law's intentions lose some of their urgency without that background information. Try this with Ilsa J. Bick's Ashes (2011) or, for the prose, Alice Hoffman's Green Angel (2003). HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: The publisher's extensive marketing strategy will ramp up buzz with exclusive downloadable content, a video trailer, and wide-ranging promotional efforts. Copyright 2012 Booklist Reviews. - Horn Book Guide Reviews : Horn Book Guide Reviews 2012 Fall
This sequel to Wither follows Rhine and Gabriel (after they have escaped from the mansion in which they were near-enslaved) as they attempt a new life together. Rhine leads Gabriel to Manhattan in search of her long-lost brother, but complications leave the story with a cliffhanger ending; only die-hard fans will be eager for the third volume in this dystopian trilogy. - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2012 January #2
The atmospheric worldbuilding, moral dilemmas and romantic possibilities of Wither (2011) never heat up in this, the second novel in the dystopian Chemical Garden Trilogy. Having recently escaped the compound where she was forced to marry, take on sister wives and ultimately become her evil father-in-law Vaughn's scientific experiment in the name of finding a cure for the virus that kills off men and women at a young age, Rhine, along with former servant and love interest Gabriel, finds herself in trouble again. Plotting another escape from a heartless "First Generation" who runs a brothel out of an abandoned carnival site, continuing to evade Vaughn, picking up a malformed and mute girl and trying to find Rhine's twin brother should be adventurous. And finally being able to communicate freely should bring out the intimacy between Rhine and Gabriel. Instead, the repetitive story, filled with too many similar dream sequences and nearly nonstop illnesses, falls flat, and readers may wonder at times if Rhine and Gabriel even like each other. Their constant running and hiding overshadow the interesting questions about the ethics of science, relationships, sexuality and power raised in the first book. Readers who want to know more about the causes and effects of the mysterious virus will have to wait for the third installment, purposefully set up by another rushed ending. (Dystopian romance. 14 & up) Copyright Kirkus 2012 Kirkus/BPI Communications.All rights reserved. - School Library Journal Reviews : SLJ Reviews 2012 April
Gr 9 UpâThis sequel to Wither (S & S, 2011) is set in a dystopian future where all children die in their 20s, which has caused society to crumble. Soon after escaping from Vaughn's home in Florida, Rhine and Gabriel land in the remains of an old amusement park somewhere in the Carolinas. The park is now a scarlet district where young girls are drugged and forced into prostitution, and the gritty scenes are realistic. With some help, they are able to escape and continue on their journey to find Rhine's twin brother, Rowan. When they arrive in New York, they discover that Rowan has burned down their home and is nowhere to be found. Then Rhine becomes sick, three years before the virus is supposed to take her. Gabriel thinks that this has something to do with the medical tests that Vaughn had been doing on her and his son's other brides. They decide to confront him, but before they can leave, he finds them and takes Rhine back to continue running tests on her in his laboratory. The story is unevenly paced and has little secondary character development, and readers unfamiliar with the first novel will be lost, as they won't understand how this virus started or why the society is in chaos.âErik Carlson, White Plains Public Library, NY
[Page 158]. (c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. - Voice of Youth Advocates Reviews : VOYA Reviews 2012 April
Rhine escaped from the Florida house where she was being held as an unwilling sister wife at the end of Wither (Simon & Schuster, 2011/VOYA April 2011), the first book in The Chemical Garden Trilogy. In a world where genetic engineering gone awry has doomed all young people to an early death, age twenty-five for boys and twenty for girls, she has less than four years to find her way back home to New York and hopefully reunite with her twin brother. Unfortunately, she and Gabriel, the young servant who helped her escape from sinister Housemaster Vaughn's estate, only make it as far as the Carolinas, where they are snared into service by a drug-addicted old woman who runs a county fair. She plans to sell Rhine to the highest bidder, but when Vaughn shows up with the purchase price, Rhine and Gabriel have already fled. They make it to Philadelphia, but so does Vaughn, threatening to burn their safe house down if Rhine, now sick and possibly dying from terminal fever, does not go with him. Back in Florida, the scientist eradicates the fever he had caused and begins experimenting on Rhine. In her weakened state and with no hope of rescue in sight, Rhine still dreams of escaping and finding her brother. The "perils of Pauline" (damsel in distress) scenario is much darker and more disturbing than its predecessor, but fans will be eager to continue Rhine's journey. Readers new to Rhine's plight should start at book one of this dystopian science fiction adventure.âBonnie Kunzel 4Q 4P S Copyright 2011 Voya Reviews.