Wither by Lauren DeStefano

By age sixteen, Rhine Ellery has four years left to live. She can thank modern science for this genetic time bomb. A botched effort to create a perfect race has left all males with a lifespan of 25 years, and females with a lifespan of 20 years. Geneticists are seeking a miracle antidote to restore the human race, desperate orphans crowd the population, crime and poverty have skyrocketed, and young girls are being kidnapped and sold as polygamous brides to bear more children. When Rhine is kidnapped and sold as a bride, she vows to do all she can to escape. Her husband, Linden, is hopelessly in love with her, and Rhine can’t bring herself to hate him as much as she’d like to. He opens her to a magical world of wealth and illusion she never thought existed, and it almost makes it possible to ignore the clock ticking away her short life. But Rhine quickly learns that not everything in her new husband’s strange world is what it seems. Her father-in-law, an eccentric doctor bent on finding the antidote, is hoarding corpses in the basement. Her fellow sister wives are to be trusted one day and feared the next, and Rhine is desperate to communicate to her twin brother that she is safe and alive. Will Rhine be able to escape--before her time runs out?

Pro’s/Con’s:
None, really there are non to me. I loved this book so much and I just can’t tell you any negative point about it. Not now, not later.
I want to begin with the cover. I think it’s beautiful! It attracted my attention right away and I can keep on looking at it for hours! Definitely one of my favorites ever!
The second, and most important thing in a book to me, is the story. The story is amazing. It’s realistic, scary and it sucks you in right away. I don’t remember much of the days when I was reading this book. All I could think back then (when I wasn't reading this book) was ‘’What would I do?’’, ‘’Where would I be?’’ (I would be dead seeing as I’m 20 years old at this moment) and ‘’What would happen with the people I know?’’. Overall the answers that I came up with were pretty scary, I’m happy that we don’t live in that world. And even now as I’m writing this review I can feel my mind getting sucked back in into the world of Rhine, Cecily and Jenna.
And after finishing this book I still kept on thinking about it. The story and characters grabbed me so much that it felt like they could be friends of mine, they felt so realistic almost as if they could stand next to me any moment and I love it when a book can make me feel like this.

Recommend it?
Yes, a very big huge yes you have to read this book! It’s so awesome and amazing and scary and it sucks you in right away. You should read this if you haven’t yet!