Day 382: One Hundred Day Book Challenge: Book 4 and 5

I am posting these together because they are a series. The Series is called "The Chemical Garden Trilogy" (the third book is not yet out).
The author is Lauren Destefano.
The first book is entitled "Wither" and the second is entitled "Fever".

Once again, I'm on a Dystopian Literature kick. (I'm also writing one of my own. Look out for details about "Careful" in the near future). These books are under that genre. If you don't like them, then you probably shouldn't read this review. It's obviously not for you.

Anyway, I bought a whole bunch of dystopian novels awhile back and when I saw the cover of Wither, I did the worst thing you can ever do. I judged the book by it's cover.

This is the cover of Wither:

I saw the cover and assumed it was some kind of fashion novel. Or something I wouldn't really enjoy reading. So I didn't pick it up. Didn't even read the back cover. Just kept walking. 

Anyway, I went over to my best friend's house and was stealing her internet to look up the release date of the third book in the "Matched" trilogy by Ally Condie came out. (There is a review of the first two books in that series on my blog as well.) I also then began to look up other dystopian novels and this one came up in that list. When I actually read the summary, it sounded fucking amazing so I made my soon to be husband drive all the way BACK to Harrisburg (nearly an hour away from where we live) so that I could pick up this one and it's sequel to add to my hundred book challenge list. 

To give you a brief description of the books: 

It's set in a dystopian future, where they have found a cure for cancer, but that cure has made it so that men usually perish around the age of 25 and women around the age of twenty. Young girls are kidnapped from their homes and forced to marry men in order to reproduce. Most men take in anywhere between four and seven wives! This is what happens to the books protagonist Rhine. Except she decides she wants to escape and is planning her escape from the house the whole time. Her new husband falls in love with her though and she falls in love with someone who is considered a "servant" to the household.

First book: freaking awesome, couldn't put it down. There are some pretty gruesome scenes though. Women do not die pleasant deaths. 

Second book: ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I didn't particularly enjoy it. But I will still be buying the third, mainly because I'm rooting for the wrong side of the love triangle and I have to find out if I'm right or not. The second book is like 594859484584095834058430 times creepier than the first. Much more gruesome and scary. I had a few nightmares about the book afterwards. Not even kidding you. I'd give you more insight to what is happening in this book but it would definitely give away the ending to the first. 

Now if you're into CREEPY dystopian novels, this series is the perfect choice for you!