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Fever (The Chemical Garden, #2)
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I finally got to this one and I found the audiobook on Hoopla before I bought it on Audible. It was an easy read, which I’m grateful for.
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Fever is the follow-up to Lauren DeStefano’s novel “Wither�, which is called a “thought-provoking debut� by Kirkus Reviews. This novel is set in a future where women die by the age of 20 years of age and men die by the age of 25 years of age.
Girls are sold into marriage to keep the population growing due to the virus that kills people at such young ages. Rhine has finally escaped her marriage to Linden but what hope does she really have in the outside world when her death looms ever closer?
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I wish there was a trigger warning for the close call sexual assault that occurs in this book. It’s a trigger for me, for sure, and I was freaking out in public. Not a good look, right?
I can see the protests when the president announced the rebuilding of the labs happening again. It reminds me of the fallout from the death of George Floyd during the COVID pandemic.
This entire trilogy reminds me of what happened when the COVID pandemic was at its worst when things were first shut down. I don’t like the post-apocalyptic novels because of that.
It reminds me too much of what can easily happen if we are left to our own devices after something catastrophic. I don’t like thinking about that, as I wonder what I’d do in that situation.
I feel so much empathy for Rhine, as I have a lot of the same personality traits that she does. I put other people before myself to my own detriment. I help people before I help myself and I see a lot of myself in Rhine. That really hurts.
I hate that Rhine finally returned to Manhattan after a year away to find that her brother burned their home down. I know she’ll have what I hope is an HEA at the end of the next book but I still felt a broken heart.
When she starts dying at the end of the book, my heart sank again. I was hoping that she would have more time. I know there’s a third book to come but my heart still sank. I can still feel my heart sinking. lol
I would hate to see Maddie going through the world truly on her own without both her biological mother and Rhine. I know she still has her biological maternal grandmother but I feel like that’s not the same.
I’m truly cautious when it comes to recommending this book because of the sexual assault that almost happens about halfway through the book. I don’t want anyone to be triggered like I was. It’s a shame too because the premise is quite promising.
–ēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēē�
Fever is the follow-up to Lauren DeStefano’s novel “Wither�, which is called a “thought-provoking debut� by Kirkus Reviews. This novel is set in a future where women die by the age of 20 years of age and men die by the age of 25 years of age.
Girls are sold into marriage to keep the population growing due to the virus that kills people at such young ages. Rhine has finally escaped her marriage to Linden but what hope does she really have in the outside world when her death looms ever closer?
–ēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēēē�
I wish there was a trigger warning for the close call sexual assault that occurs in this book. It’s a trigger for me, for sure, and I was freaking out in public. Not a good look, right?
I can see the protests when the president announced the rebuilding of the labs happening again. It reminds me of the fallout from the death of George Floyd during the COVID pandemic.
This entire trilogy reminds me of what happened when the COVID pandemic was at its worst when things were first shut down. I don’t like the post-apocalyptic novels because of that.
It reminds me too much of what can easily happen if we are left to our own devices after something catastrophic. I don’t like thinking about that, as I wonder what I’d do in that situation.
I feel so much empathy for Rhine, as I have a lot of the same personality traits that she does. I put other people before myself to my own detriment. I help people before I help myself and I see a lot of myself in Rhine. That really hurts.
I hate that Rhine finally returned to Manhattan after a year away to find that her brother burned their home down. I know she’ll have what I hope is an HEA at the end of the next book but I still felt a broken heart.
When she starts dying at the end of the book, my heart sank again. I was hoping that she would have more time. I know there’s a third book to come but my heart still sank. I can still feel my heart sinking. lol
I would hate to see Maddie going through the world truly on her own without both her biological mother and Rhine. I know she still has her biological maternal grandmother but I feel like that’s not the same.
I’m truly cautious when it comes to recommending this book because of the sexual assault that almost happens about halfway through the book. I don’t want anyone to be triggered like I was. It’s a shame too because the premise is quite promising.
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