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Fever (The Chemical Garden, #2)
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Now that Rhine and Gabriel have escaped the mansion, they have to find a way to Manhatten before Vaughn finds them.
But before long, they sumble upon a new threat. A circus with a mad woman as the leader that has big plans for Rhine and won't let them leave. She drugs both Gabriel and Rhine and forces them to put on a show for some of her clients. It's only when Vaughn shows up at the circus and makes a deal with Madame to buy Rhine back, are they able to escape and find a way to Manhattan.
Once they're back at Rhine's home, they find her brother absent and their home burned down. With no lead as to where Rowan could be, they go and find the mother of the woman who helped her escape the circus and they stay with her. But Rhine begins to show symptoms of the virus even tho it's to soon for that. That's when Vaughn shows up once again and confesses on killing Jenna and infecting her. He convinces her to go back with him where he plans to turn her into his lab rat until he finds an antidote for the virus.
This book was so pointless, it mad me mad.
I hate circuses! Both fictional and real.

So I skim read the entire circus part and hoped I didn't miss something important but the father I got, the more I understood that this book was just a filler and had nothing important to say.
I mean the whole point of the book is that they try to get to Rowan without a plan to achive it. Meanwhile Gabriel suffers from drug abstinence and Rhine has flashbacks from her old life and the one she had at the mansion.
Until the last two chapters, nothing important happens.
I skimmed the entire book and don't feel like I missed out on anything.

Honestly, I think you can skip it altogether and just read the last couple of chapters when Vaughn shows up again.
But that's not for me to decide. You do you.
I certainly wish I did skip it.
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Elena Salvatore's review
bookshelves: 1st-person-pov, 2019, annoying-protagonist, annoying-side-character, disliked, dystopian, female-author, girl-protagonist, hated, hated-character, not-what-i-imagined, on-my-tbr-4ever, predictable, plot-twist, secret-society, special, star-crossed-lovers, too-many-chapters, unnecessary-secrets, wished-i-dnf-d, downhill-series, unnecessary-addition
Jul 01, 2019
bookshelves: 1st-person-pov, 2019, annoying-protagonist, annoying-side-character, disliked, dystopian, female-author, girl-protagonist, hated, hated-character, not-what-i-imagined, on-my-tbr-4ever, predictable, plot-twist, secret-society, special, star-crossed-lovers, too-many-chapters, unnecessary-secrets, wished-i-dnf-d, downhill-series, unnecessary-addition
“Because even if the lie is beautiful, the truth is what you face in the end.�
Now that Rhine and Gabriel have escaped the mansion, they have to find a way to Manhatten before Vaughn finds them.
But before long, they sumble upon a new threat. A circus with a mad woman as the leader that has big plans for Rhine and won't let them leave. She drugs both Gabriel and Rhine and forces them to put on a show for some of her clients. It's only when Vaughn shows up at the circus and makes a deal with Madame to buy Rhine back, are they able to escape and find a way to Manhattan.
Once they're back at Rhine's home, they find her brother absent and their home burned down. With no lead as to where Rowan could be, they go and find the mother of the woman who helped her escape the circus and they stay with her. But Rhine begins to show symptoms of the virus even tho it's to soon for that. That's when Vaughn shows up once again and confesses on killing Jenna and infecting her. He convinces her to go back with him where he plans to turn her into his lab rat until he finds an antidote for the virus.
This book was so pointless, it mad me mad.
I hate circuses! Both fictional and real.

So I skim read the entire circus part and hoped I didn't miss something important but the father I got, the more I understood that this book was just a filler and had nothing important to say.
I mean the whole point of the book is that they try to get to Rowan without a plan to achive it. Meanwhile Gabriel suffers from drug abstinence and Rhine has flashbacks from her old life and the one she had at the mansion.
Until the last two chapters, nothing important happens.
I skimmed the entire book and don't feel like I missed out on anything.

Honestly, I think you can skip it altogether and just read the last couple of chapters when Vaughn shows up again.
But that's not for me to decide. You do you.
I certainly wish I did skip it.

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Quotes Elena Liked

“It's best to let her go," he says.
No, no, that's wrong. It's never right to give up on someone.”
― Fever
No, no, that's wrong. It's never right to give up on someone.”
― Fever

“He kissed back, all the pages spread out around us like riddles waiting to be solved. Let them wait. Let my genes unravel, my hinges come loose. If my fate rests in the hands of a madman, let death come and bring its worse. I'll take the ruined craters of laboratories, the dead trees, this city with ashes in the oxygen, if it means freedom. I'd sooner die here than live a hundred years with wires in my veins.”
― Fever
― Fever

“I lost everyone I loved," I tell him. I wait for him to look at me, and then I add, "The day I met you.”
― Fever
― Fever

“But there’s no such thing as free. There are only different and more horrible ways to be enslaved.”
― Fever
― Fever

“Momentum,' She repeats. 'You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have to run.”
― Fever
― Fever

“Do you know what my father used to say?" I ask her. "He used to say that songs had a heart. A crescendo that can make all your blood rush from your head to your toes.”
― Fever
― Fever

“It is the face of a girl who has seen the world, who realizes that it hates her, and who hates it in return.”
― Fever
― Fever

“Her mind is a bird that's trapped inside her skull, flapping and thrashing, never breaking free.”
― Fever
― Fever

“I start trying to stay unconscious. The problem with this is that no amount of willpower can change the reality.”
― Fever
― Fever

“There is no darkness like that of a confined space. It's darker than the inside of eyelids, and darker than the night.”
― Fever
― Fever

“I stare at my reflection in the glass, and I see two versions of myself: the twin sister, and the bride.
"It was supposed to be better than this," I whisper.”
― Fever
"It was supposed to be better than this," I whisper.”
― Fever
Reading Progress
June 26, 2019
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June 30, 2019
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July 1, 2019
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dystopian
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not-what-i-imagined
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