Hey bookworms, Welcome back to MYABL! Today, I am happy to reveal the cover of a upcoming YA read, Spark by author Holly Schindler! Check it out! All of the juicy details about this novel, as well as the author, are posted below. Keep reading for more. SPARK comes out next year (May 2016)! Make sure you add it to your Goodreads if you'd like to read it. Links for Goodreads and pre-orders are at the end of this post. I'm excited because it has the most amazing elements of Romeo and Juliet wound into it's blurb. Description: Holly Schindler’s Spark: When the right hearts come to the Avery Theater—at the right time—the magic will return. The Avery will come back from the dead. Or so Quin’s great-grandmother predicted many years ago on Verona, Missouri’s most tragic night, when Nick and Emma, two star-crossed teenage lovers, died on the stage. It was the night that the Avery’s marquee lights went out forever. It sounds like urban legend, but one that high school senior Quin is ...
Wither, Book One of The Chemical Garden Trilogy, by Lauren Destefano (NY: Simon & Schuster, 2011).Sixteen-year-old Rhine Ellery has only four years left to live. A virus activated by the genetic engineering that produced one generation of superior adults has doomed subsequent generations to an early death--at age 20 for females, and 25 for males. Scientists in Manhattan racing to find an antidote have been destroyed by a faction that believes the human race should be allowed to die out, though other researchers continue to seek a solution. Meanwhile, orphans are increasingly left to fend for themselves, and girls are often snatched off the street by Gatherers who take them to the homes of rich men to dwell in polygamous marriages and reproduce in case a cure is found.
Kidnapped Rhine finds herself far away from her twin brother and forced to marry Linden in a group ceremony with two other girls, who become her sister wives. Although Rhine becomes his favorite, once his first wife has died, and she's living in relative ease compared to the poverty of her previous home, Rhine can only think of escaping to be with her brother again. Her father-in-law, a ruthless doctor obsessed with finding a cure before his own son dies, rules the household, manipulating everyone within it, even lying to his own son and performing gruesome experiments in his single-minded quest.
Withered is an excellent dystopia, peppered with potent social criticism. Rhine's relationships with her hapless husband, her sister wives, and the young attendant with whom she wishes to escape are all well drawn and enfolded in the captivating narrative. Highly recommended for ages 14 & up. Intense and sexual situations.
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