Something wonderful about the limits to reading school has
set on me for the past 4 years, is I now enter the library to full trilogies.
Trilogies that I don’t have to agonize over and over and spend years waiting for every last book to come out. Now I walk in, grab the whole lot of the shelf,and BAM
one week is spent in that world. No prolonged agonizing. No scouring Amazon for
release dates. No siree.
A series that I
picked up last month was the Chemical Garden Trilogy.
Now this series is trippy: Rhine and her twin brother Rowan
have been born into a world torn apart by the desire for perfection. Doctors
have finally discovered a cure for every known malady, but this “cure” has
place a limit on their children’s lifespan. Now all males will only live until
25 and females are left with 20 years. This new condition has turned the
country into a state of panic, doctors race for a cure while young girls are
sold into polygamous relationships in order to provide the dying country with
new citizens.
Rhine and Rowan, now orphans living in poverty, rely on each
other to survive, but when Rhine is kidnapped and sold as a polygamous bride
she will do anything to make her way back to Rowan. In her new life as a bride,
she discovers that as much as she would love to hate her husband, Linden, he
proves kind and loving and shows Rhine a life of wealth and stability.
Though Rhine slowly begins to trust her husband, she knows
that there is something evil about her father-in-law’s attempts to find a cure
and she knows she might be dragged into his cruel experiments unless she can
escape.
In the end, I just really enjoyed this series and I found
the ideas behind it were rather intriguing.
Rating: 3/5
-Lora
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