Rhine, the protagonist, is sold to Linden Ashby, along with two other girls, Jenna and Cecily. More trust needed to be put into the reader understanding the basics of the world, especially if it’s described on the blurb!Īlong with the immediate death thing, girls are sold off to men at the highest bidder. We’re told this fact on three consecutive pages. The USP of Wither is that women die at 20 and men at 25. Because of this, I think the writing style was a bit clumsy. It was Lauren DeStefano’s debut novel, and dystopian is always going to be a hard genre to write because so much thought has to go into the world, it’s purpose and what went wrong. I thought it was about time to give the series another shot, so here’s what I thought of what was promised to be a dystopian, and ended up being like The Selection gone wrong.įor a first book in the series, I could forgive a lot of things. I’ve had the first book Wither on my shelf for about two years, and only managed to read the first fifty pages before I put it down for some unknown reason. When commenting on the sequels, Fever and Sever I may spoil the contents of the previous books.) (Warning: As this is a series review, only my comments of Wither will be non-spoiler.
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