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Wither

Rhine Ellery is a 16-year-old girl growing up in the dangerous world that the old generations have left for her.  In this world, women only grow to be twenty and men only twenty-five due to a genetic life-shortening pandemic.  In this first book of the Chemical Garden Trilogy, we experience what it is like for Rhine to be forced into the life of materialism and unwanted polygamy.

This novel will help readers understand the value of time and the years of life one is given.  The author writes in a matter-of-fact tone which adds to the seriousness of the way the reader interprets the story.  This story will compel the reader to go out and try new and different things in order to take advantage of the privilege we call life.  Sci-fi readers and those who just enjoy a good read will be satisfied with this profound novel.

— Tyler Z.