I have so much to say about this one. To start all I knew about this book was that it was a dystopian about where girls die at age 20 and boys die at age 25. Had I known what the whole book was going to be like I probably wouldn't have read it. I did rate it high because it was a good book but it just was a very upsetting story. This is from someone who reads EVERYTHING and yet I found this disturbing probably cause it touches on a sad subject for a girl which is being sold into a polygomous marriage so you can have babies for a psycho to experiement on. 
 It starts off with Rhine and other girls being kidnapped and then sold off to sicko Linden. He picks 3 girls and the rest get shot. He takes them back to his psycho mansion and locks them in their rooms and waits for his current wife Rose to die. Rose is 20 and actually loved Linden and wants him to replace her. After she dies Linden starts paying attention to his new 3 wives. This is where it gets sick and I should warn that Linden is 21 and impregnantes 13 year old Cecily that comes from an orphanage and just wants to please. Rhine who is 16 never allows him more than a cuddle in her bed but Jenna who is 18 allows him because they are scared of Linden's father Vaughn. Vaughn is a first generation which means he ages and he is obsessed with finding an antidote to save his son Linden. Rhine has her attendents for company and begins to befriend Gabriel. I love Gabriel poor guy. The whole book I'm like please please stab Linden in his neck and just run. But no poor Rhine is stuck in that house for a year gaining sicko Linden's trust enough to escape. She has to act and doll up for parties so he will trust her. I read the whole thing in a day cause I truly had a stomach ache having to hear Linden speak and Rhine eventually doesn't completely hate him because he is toally oblivious. He is not that stupid to really think buying a bunch of girls will create a loving marriage and that he should make a 13 year old have his baby. I have read Stolen by Lucy Christopher which portrays a more likable kidnapper. This guy was not at all understandable to me. The end was not horrible so I probably will read on because I am worried about Rhine's twin brother and I hope she can find him. It was an interesting dystopian book and I'd recommend it just beware that the whole book is quite disturbing and that she is stuck with Linden the whole time. We know Vaughn is experimenting but we don't hear much in the way of how far the antidote is coming. It was all about psycho Linden which is what I didn't like about this book. I was hoping for more about the outside world. If she escaped early in the book it would have been more interesting and less sickning.