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juneberry0123's review against another edition
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
- Strong character development? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
4.25
andiemags53's review against another edition
4.0
Oh boy. This book had me feeling all different sorts of things. I hated it at first. Then it got all cute. Then Vaughn comes back into the picture, and it is intense. And raw, and powerful. What Rhine goes through in this book is unbelievable. I can not fathom having that much strength and will power. It was amazing.
alicebme's review against another edition
2.0
Too sad. I might try to read the rest later. Geez...I finally went back and read this. I'm interested enough to finish the trilogy. More good things need to happen to this character, so I sure do hope it has a satisfying ending.
goodem9199's review against another edition
4.0
I am a Wither fanatic, and couldn't wait to get my paws on this one. I really, really liked it, but it had a bit of that "bridge" feel that middle books in 3-part series tend to have. I felt like parts of the book were stagnant...almost like being caught in a fever dream. (great title tie-in, eh?) I thought the ending was fantastic, and I'm definately geared up for #3.
brendalovesbooks's review against another edition
3.0
Not great. I kind of want to keep reading the series to see where the story goes, but it's also not super interesting, so I'm not sure if I will. It just seems so slow, like nothing is happening. And I don't care very much about the characters, which is odd because it seems like it should be a character driven story.
sccrethistory's review against another edition
3.0
tengo que hablar seriamente de este libro, debe ser la maldicion esa de los segundos libros que se ha hecho presente en este caso. Efimera fue uno de los.mejores libros que he podido leer y me lo termine.en muy pocos dias, en cambio con Fiebre me ha costado dios y ayuda terminarmelo.pero.lo he hecho y la verdad es que ha sido mejor el final que lo demas pero bueno. solo decir que Rhine es algo bipolar y a veces me.cae bien y otras mal, sentimientos encontrados frente a ella.
no quiero poner aqui la biblia asi que espero leerme el.ultimo.solo.para saber como acaba esta saga y que mejore respecto a este que aunque si.me ha gustado no me ha encantado mucho.
fin
no quiero poner aqui la biblia asi que espero leerme el.ultimo.solo.para saber como acaba esta saga y que mejore respecto a este que aunque si.me ha gustado no me ha encantado mucho.
fin
halynah's review against another edition
4.0
Well, the first book was just fluffy in comparison with this one - the plot is very depressive! The author does her job well making the reader feel all the despair, atrocity and terror of the situation the main characters find themselves in, but it's not easy to read - you've got to love dystopia and tolerate the lack of positive events in the plot. It's not a relaxing and pleasant book, but definitely worth attention and four stars!
camib93's review against another edition
3.0
I loved Wither,the first book in the Chemical Garden Trilogy, was amazing. I could not put the book down. This one however was much harder for me to get through. I did not enjoy it as much and I do believethat DeStefano is a beautiful writer. This book, however, I did not begin to enjoy until Rhine and Gabriel got to New York (so almost halfway through the book). The ending was abrupt and I wanted there to be a little more. It was not exactly a cliff hanger ending which is why I think that I did not like it much. But I love the series and I cannot wait to see what happens next.
_bookdrag0n's review against another edition
2.0
This was quite possibly worse than the first book. There are so many holes in the story that just don't make sense, and like a typical second book in a trilogy, it just contained filler nonsense that was completely irrelevant to the story itself. You could probably skip this book altogether and go straight to the third book and not miss a beat. a little over 3/4 of this book was just worthless filler dragging though the mud. Nothing important happened until the last 50 pages or so of the book.
From here on in there may be spoilers, so beware, and I apologize for my thoughts being so scattered. I lost a few brain cells with this one.
Gabriel. This boy has no personality whatsoever and I don't understand how Rhine, or anyone for that matter, could be attracted to him. all we know is he has blue eyes and his build is slightly bigger than Linden. Gabriel and Rhine have absolutely ZERO chemistry. If you're going to give us a romantic relationship or a botched love triangle, at least make the characters interesting
Rhine spends the entire book either sick or drugged. how can anyone call her a "strong and interesting" female lead? she's bland and all she does is whine about everything. The only interesting thing about her are her eyes, and even that is overplayed. she has heterochromia. It's not anything special or fantastic, it is essentially a genetic disorder and in no way WHATSOEVER be a key to curing a disease, which is what they are hinting at.
So this whole time, Rhine never knew she had a tracker in her leg? and with her having the tracker, why on earth did it take so long for Vaughn to find her?
and I don't know why this bothers me so much, but when Vaughn shows up, Rhine thinks "that limousine looked so familiar"
it's a damn LIMO. they all look the same. how is she going to recognize that one car as being his. it's just stupid
When Vaughn tells her that the reason she is sick is because she's having withdrawls from the mysterious drug-candies, I literally wanted to slam my head against my desk repeatedly. IT'S BEEN MONTHS SINCE SHE'S HAD ONE OF THOSE CANDIES. WHY IS SHE JUST NOW GETTING SICK FROM NOT HAVING THEM IN HER SYSTEM?!?!
So now in the end she's back where she started at. so what was the point of the whole book? a game of hide and seek?
and of course Selfish little Cecily knew that Vaughn had Rhine trapped in the basement experimenting on her, and doesn't tell Linden. then all of a sudden she wants to act all concerned wanting to get her to the hospital after she cuts herself open to get the tracker out.
and if they say that Linden loves her ONE MORE TIME. good god he still doesn't even know her, and he willingly sleeps with Cecily. yeah no he doesn't love her. that's just warped
she spends the entire book under the pretense of finding her brother.... she only makes an effort to look for him once. and then she doesn't even find him until the last two sentences of the book, and even then it's only on a tv screen. WTF
how anyone can say this storyline is exciting/intense is beyond me.
only reading the next book to see how this train wreck ends up
From here on in there may be spoilers, so beware, and I apologize for my thoughts being so scattered. I lost a few brain cells with this one.
Gabriel. This boy has no personality whatsoever and I don't understand how Rhine, or anyone for that matter, could be attracted to him. all we know is he has blue eyes and his build is slightly bigger than Linden. Gabriel and Rhine have absolutely ZERO chemistry. If you're going to give us a romantic relationship or a botched love triangle, at least make the characters interesting
Rhine spends the entire book either sick or drugged. how can anyone call her a "strong and interesting" female lead? she's bland and all she does is whine about everything. The only interesting thing about her are her eyes, and even that is overplayed. she has heterochromia. It's not anything special or fantastic, it is essentially a genetic disorder and in no way WHATSOEVER be a key to curing a disease, which is what they are hinting at.
So this whole time, Rhine never knew she had a tracker in her leg? and with her having the tracker, why on earth did it take so long for Vaughn to find her?
and I don't know why this bothers me so much, but when Vaughn shows up, Rhine thinks "that limousine looked so familiar"
it's a damn LIMO. they all look the same. how is she going to recognize that one car as being his. it's just stupid
When Vaughn tells her that the reason she is sick is because she's having withdrawls from the mysterious drug-candies, I literally wanted to slam my head against my desk repeatedly. IT'S BEEN MONTHS SINCE SHE'S HAD ONE OF THOSE CANDIES. WHY IS SHE JUST NOW GETTING SICK FROM NOT HAVING THEM IN HER SYSTEM?!?!
So now in the end she's back where she started at. so what was the point of the whole book? a game of hide and seek?
and of course Selfish little Cecily knew that Vaughn had Rhine trapped in the basement experimenting on her, and doesn't tell Linden. then all of a sudden she wants to act all concerned wanting to get her to the hospital after she cuts herself open to get the tracker out.
and if they say that Linden loves her ONE MORE TIME. good god he still doesn't even know her, and he willingly sleeps with Cecily. yeah no he doesn't love her. that's just warped
she spends the entire book under the pretense of finding her brother.... she only makes an effort to look for him once. and then she doesn't even find him until the last two sentences of the book, and even then it's only on a tv screen. WTF
how anyone can say this storyline is exciting/intense is beyond me.
only reading the next book to see how this train wreck ends up