ayyelle 's review for:

Fever by Lauren DeStefano
3.0

The second book of the Chemical Garden Trilogy answers a lot of the questions I had of the first book and reveals the truths of the Housemaster who captured the protagonist, Rhine and her other sister-wives. The first book ended with Rhine and Gabriel having escaped from the mansion and ended up on a small boat. This book continues with that and we end up in Manhattan, Rhine's home before she was captured by the Gatherers. All is not well though, because later on we end up right where we started. I found this book gave me a bit of a headache as we were seeing the world in Rhine's first person perspective and it felt like she was drugged up 90% of the time. She kept on drifting in and out of consciousness due to getting her head hit, weird scents clogging up her thoughts, drugs and fever. It hurt my head to follow her as she was unable to distinguish between reality and her hallucinations. I don't really have much to say about this book besides I need to take a nap now after finishing to rest my head.