Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers; 1 edition (March 22, 2011)
The book was purchased by me for review purposes, I still don't blog enough to get ARCs or early releases.
From the Publisher - Dust Jacket blurb:
What if you knew exactly when you would die?
Thanks to modern science, every newborn has become a ticking genetic time bomb - males only live to age twenty-five, and females only live to age twenty. 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 the help of Gabriel, a servant she is growing dangerously attracted to, Rhine attempts to break free, in the limited time she has left.
Dust Jacket Impressions: Wow, whoever designed the cover should get a raise, I loved it. The fun little lines and circles, the little bird in the cage, and the test tube on the back with the hourglass, awesome.
Ticking genetic time bomb, when we die do we actually explode? I was getting hilarious visuals of people's heads exploding the exact minute they hit their 20/25th birthday. I'm quite positive that this does not happen, but admit it, it makes you giggle (or I may possibly need mental help). The large fact of the matter is, in this future world, I AM DEAD. Thanks ever so much Lauren, oh wait, so are you, how did you write this? I kid, obviously. So polygamous marriages? I get the impression women are bred like animals, it is also not a good visual. Also, ew, STDs much? If they kidnap women off the street I hope they clean them up first. I'm assuming this does not occur in the book it bares thought though.
Rhine is our main character, I love that she is named after a river. I see her twin brother is mentioned but barely, so I am assuming he plays little to no role in the actual book. If he does I assume it is in the beginning or via flashbacks. Her husband Linden sounds like he'll be decent, and it seems like her father-in-law will be our bad guy in this book. I suppose collecting corpses is better than eating corpses I guess. Being experimented on, and apparently lusting after a servant boy has got to be better than sleeping in the street and being eaten by zombies. No, as far as I know there are no zombies in this book.
Okay, I'm sold. Rhine apparently wants nothing more than to escape a creepy marriage she was kidnapped for. I want nothing more than to read an interesting story where the main character has to decide between a gilded cage, and the unknown of the outside world. She wants to get back to her brother and probably take Gabriel with her. Cool, romance, creepy in-law, death everywhere, dystopian world, yep I can't wait to read it.
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