Waiting On Wednesday- Wither

By Lauren DeStefano

Published Simon & Schuster

To Be Released on March 22nd, 2011

What if you knew exactly when you would die?

Thanks to modern science, every human being has become a ticking genetic time bomb—males only live to age twenty-five, and females only live to age twenty. In this bleak landscape, young girls are kidnapped and forced into polygamous marriages to keep the population from dying out.

When sixteen-year-old Rhine Ellery is taken by the Gatherers to become a bride, she enters a world of wealth and privilege. Despite her husband Linden's genuine love for her, and a tenuous trust among her sister wives, Rhine has one purpose: to escape—to find her twin brother and go home.

But Rhine has more to contend with than losing her freedom. Linden's eccentric father is bent on finding an antidote to the genetic virus that is getting closer to taking his son, even if it means collecting corpses in order to test his experiments. With the help of Gabriel, a servant Rhine is growing dangerously attracted to, Rhine attempts to break free, in the limted time she has left (quoted from Goodreads).

I have heard nothing but great things about this book and I can not wait for my pre-ordered copy to arrive as I WANT TO READ THIS BOOK like now. I am so excited it's being released next week, which means when my copy arrives I'll get little sleep from being up all night reading. Wither is also the 1st book in The Chemical Garden Trilogy. YAY for new series!!

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted at Breaking the Spine, and allows us to spotlight a book that we are eagerly awaiting to be released.