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Wither

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 Wither (the Chemical Garden #1) Author: Lauren DeStefano Reviewed By: Courtney Published By: Simon & Schuster Release Date: 2011 Genre: YA/ Dystopia Pages: 358 pages Thanks to modern science, every newborn has become a ticking time bomb-males only live to age 25, and females only live to age 20. In this bleak landscape, young girls are kidnapped and forced into polygamous marriages to keep the population from dying out. When sixteen-year-old Rhine Ellery is taken by the Gatherers to become a bride, she enters a world of wealth and privilege. Despite her husband Linden's genuine love for her, and a tenuous trust among her sister wives, Rhine has one purpose: to escape-to find her twin brother and go home. But Rhine has more to contend with than losing her freedom. Linden's eccentric father is bent on finding an antidote to the genetic virus that is getting closer to taking his son, even if it means collecting corpses in order to test his experiments. With th

Morganville Vampires: Glass Houses & The Dead Girls Dance

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The Morganville Vampires #1&2 Author: Rachel Caine Reviewed By: Courtney Published By: New American Library (a division of Penguin Group) Release Date: November 2009 Genre: YA/ Paranormal > Vampires Pages: 239 pages & 380 pages Glass Houses The Glass Houses Morganville is a small college town in the heart of Texas that has its share of quirky characters-and some evil ones too. When student Claire Danvers moves off campus into one of Morganville's oldest houses, She finds that her roommates don't show many signs of life, But they'll have Claire's back when the town's deepest secrets come crawling out, hungry for fresh blood. I first picked up this book for its cover. Plus it was 2 books in one SCORE!! It just drew my attention. Then I read the first page and in that instant I was hooked. It is like you become Claire and you feel everything the way she feels. Rachel Caine did a amazing job at making this series feel completely real.

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