Wither (Chemical Garden Trilogy, #1)

by Lauren DeStefano

[Chelsea]

This book didn’t make a whole lot of sense to me. The whole idea that science has created the perfect children is really silly and I thought it was a stupid idea. Lets make the whole world perfect! Oh wait it’s not actually working, big surprise. Did scientists get stupider? I might have while reading this book. Girls die when they hit 20 and guys 25. First of all why different ages? Second of all I’m pretty sure it’s unrealistic that you could die exactly when you hit a certain age. That doesn’t make any sense. When people get sick now and doctors say you have so much time to live, it’s not down to the exact day. I don’t think science can evolve that much. So basically the author needed to check her scientific facts a little bit here. And apparently America is the only place that survived this huge war, every other continent was reduced to tiny islands. What can destroy entire continents? Really though? How does America survive whatever completely killed the rest of the world? None of the facts in this book are correct at all. They live in Florida and it snows, hurricane season starts in June not October and anything history related was completely wrong.

Next, this girl gets kidnapped from her basement where she lives with her brother and gets sent to this luxurious mansion and immediately she’s like nope I need to leave. You could barely find food and you aren’t even going to try and like this place you got sent to? I know one guy turns out to be crazy but I’m sure she could have enjoyed herself until she figures this out. I dunno maybe it’s just me. The characters were all just so stupid. I hated all of them. Nothing about this book appealed to me at all.

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