Good gracious! The hype surrounding Wither by Lauren DeStefano is 
 spot on. After months of seeing review after review and hearing other 
 bloggers talk about how great this Dystopian novel is, I HAD to 
 purchase it and read it for myself, because I can't resist a good 
 dystopia. And OMGoodness did it give me everything I wanted and more. 
 Purely magical, I tell you! 
 In Wither, society has succeeded in vaccinating for every known 
 disease, creating a generation that is incapable of becoming ill. 
 They are truly immune to every virus, sickness, and cancer. They 
 don't even contract the common cold. They have the perfect immune 
 systems. So everything is hunky dory, right? 
 Wrong. Their children, and their children's children are unable to 
 live past a very young age; 25 for males, 20 for females, leaving all 
 future generations a very short span of time to, for lack of a better 
 word, breed. And breed they must, or civilization as they know it 
 dies with them. 
 I LOVED Wither. I loved everything about it: the descriptive and 
 fluid writing style, the characters, the world-building. DeStefano 
 does an excellent job in building this future world where we've done 
 something incredibly wrong and our future generations are paying for 
 it dearly. It is 100% completely believable, and the author really 
 makes you feel as if you can step right into the pages. 
 Her characters are wonderful. Rhine, the main character is unique and 
 beautiful but still tough as nails and just as sharp. Everything she 
 does is with a purpose and DeStefano writes her so incredibly well 
 that you can't help but love her. 
 Her sister wives are lovable in their own ways, as well. Jenna, older 
 and wiser in many, many ways, thirsts for knowledge and lives for the 
 day she sees her sisters again. Cecily is impetuous and demanding but 
 as a reader, you can't help but be exasperated by her and still love 
 her at the same time, as you would a small child. 
 I even liked the "villains" in this story because DeStefano doesn't 
 create a villain just to have one. Nope, she gives them a purpose in 
 those pages, a goal they move towards, so you have a hard time hating 
 them even though deep down, you really do. She has perfected the 
 villain. I don't want to name them because if you haven't read it 
 yet, it could spoil it for you. 
 Everything about this book is wonderful and if you havent read it yet 
 (but really, who's left?) you need to. Wither is nothing short of 
 amazing and I can't wait for her second book in the Chemical Garden 
 series, Fever!