Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Wither
When Rhine is just a teenager, she is captured in a truck with a bunch of other girls. A lot of the other girls are shot, but Rhine survives and is taken to a mysterious house. She is then married, along with 2 other girls, to a young man whose wife is dying. She is dying from the virus. They all are, not knowing how much longer they have. A few years, maximum. The virus strikes and kills men and women alike in their early twenties. Rhine has a happy enough life. While her sister wives are struggling to please and survive, she is a favorite among her new husband and father-in-law. Maybe its her one green eye, and one blue. Or maybe it's because she so resembles Rose, the deceased wife. Whatever the reason, Rhine finds it easier to escape the daily trials like becoming pregnant or talking to her father-in-law that has a lab underneath the house where he looks for a cure to the virus. This book is the best I've read in a long time. I highly recommend it.
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Thanks, Lydia, for this review! I have a hold on the next copy returned at our library. Julie
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