Fever by Lauren DeStefano

(Age: 14+) What if you know exactly when you would die?
After fleeing from her forced marriage, 17 year old Rhine Ellery starts the long journey home in hope to be reunited with her twin brother. But the journey might be longer than expected, as Rhine and her fellow escapee and lover, Gabriel, stumbles onto a twisted carnival where all is not what it seems. The bizarre ringmaster plans to turn Rhine into her star attraction while Rhine's sinister father-in-law, Vaughn, is determine to bring her back to the mansion by any means necessary.
But in a world where time is precious and women die at 20 while men die at 25, can Rhine and Gabriel escape the ringmaster and Vaughn in time?
This novel follows on from Lauren DeStefano's first book, Wither, where DNA technology has been used to cure all diseases in the first generations but at a great cost . . . all children from the first generations die at a premature age. While the human race struggles for survival, the rest of the world is dying around them, while they come up with a possible cure.
Fever has the same easy flow as the first book while being fast pace, keeping its readers capture until the very end. I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in biological science or just looking for a great book to read. I can't wait for the final instalment of The Chemical Garden Trilogy and well done to DeStefano for writing such a wonderful trilogy.
Lauren Pfeiffer (18 years old)