After modern science turns every human into a genetic time bomb with men dying at age twenty-five and women dying at age twenty, girls are kidnapped and married off in order to repopulate the world.
The Chemical Garden Series
This dystopian saga unfolds in a future where humanity is genetically engineered and stratified into castes based on their societal functions. The protagonist navigates this rigid system, seeking to break free and uncover the truth about her origins. The narrative powerfully explores themes of freedom, identity, and the resilience of the human spirit against oppressive control. It's a thrilling journey filled with unexpected twists and profound emotional depth.
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In a future where genetic engineering has cured humanity of all diseases and defects but has also produced a virus that kills all females by age 20 and all males by the age 25, teenaged Rhine escapes her forced marriage and journeys back to New York to find her twin brother.
The Chemical Garden Trilogy: Vrees
- 350 pages
- 13 hours of reading
In een wereld waarin vrouwen maar twintig jaar oud worden, en mannen sterven op hun vijfentwintigste, is tijd kostbaar. Rhine en Gabriel zijn ontsnapt uit het landhuis waar ze vastgehouden werden, maar belanden hierdoor in een beangstigende en sombere wereld. Ze zijn vastberaden om naar Rhine's tweelingbroer Rowan te gaan in Manhattan, ondanks het feit dat de weg ernaartoe lang en gevaarlijk is. Daarnaast worden ze nog achternagezeten door Vaughn, Rhine's schoonvader, die er alles aan doet om haar terug te krijgen naar het landhuis. En ondertussen tikt de tijd door.
Sever
- 384 pages
- 14 hours of reading
What if you knew exactly when you would die? Time is running out for Rhine. With less than three years left until the virus claims her life, she is desperate for answers. Having escaped torment at Vaughn's mansion, she finds respite in the dilapidated home of her husband's uncle, an eccentric inventor who hates Vaughn almost as much as she does.