The chemical garden trilogy (Il giardino degli eterni)

Fra i millemila distopici mi ero dimenticata di postare questo. Trilogia scritta da Lauren DeStefano parla di una agghiacciante storia in cui tutti sono condannati a morire giovanissimi quindi per non far estinguere la razza umana sono tutti condannati a procreare piccoli orfani...Spero che alla fine troveranno una cura alla cura anti-cancro fallita che ha causato quest'ecatombe...Dovrebbe essere fantasia ma a me sembra fin troppo realistica come situazione.

1. Il giardino degli eterni (Titolo originale: Wither)

2. (Titolo originale: Fever)

3. (Titolo originale: Sever)

novel:
1.5. (Titolo originale: The seeds of Wither)

Casa editrice: Newtoncompton

Autrice: Lauren DeStefano (Goodreads) - laurendestefano.com

Trame:

1. Il giardino degli eterni

Rhine ha sedici anni ed è bellissima. Ma è condannata a un destino terribile: morirà il giorno del suo ventesimo compleanno. E, come lei, tutti i ragazzi che vivono sulla Terra in un futuro non troppo lontano. Nel tentativo di trovare una cura per il cancro, infatti, un gruppo di scienziati ha finito per condannare la razza umana a una vita brevissima: vent’anni per le donne e venticinque per gli uomini. Anche l’avvenenza di Rhine rappresenta un pericolo: in questo mondo in decadenza, le ragazze più belle vengono rapite e date in spose ai Governatori, una casta di uomini ricchi e potenti.
Rinchiusa in una lussuosa dimora, Rhine passa i suoi giorni pensando a un modo per scappare e tornare alla libertà. Soprattutto da quando ha scoperto che la gabbia dorata in cui è prigioniera nasconde uno sconvolgente segreto: nei sotterranei vengono compiuti agghiaccianti esperimenti sugli esseri umani. Nel suo folle piano di fuga, sarà aiutata da un affascinante coetaneo incontrato durante la sua reclusione. Ma il tempo stringe e la libertà sembra sempre più lontana…
Che cosa faresti se conoscessi il giorno esatto della tua morte?

2. Fever

Rhine and Gabriel have escaped the mansion, but danger is never far behind. Running away brings Rhine and Gabriel right into a trap, in the form of a twisted carnival whose ringmistress keeps watch over a menagerie of girls. Just as Rhine uncovers what plans await her, her fortune turns again. With Gabriel at her side, Rhine travels through an environment as grim as the one she left a year ago - surroundings that mirror her own feelings of fear and hopelessness. The two are determined to get to Manhattan, to relative safety with Rhine’s twin brother, Rowan. But the road there is long and perilous - and in a world where young women only live to age twenty and young men die at twenty-five, time is precious. Worse still, they can’t seem to elude Rhine’s father-in-law, Vaughn, who is determined to bring Rhine back to the mansion...by any means necessary. In the sequel to Lauren DeStefano’s harrowing Wither, Rhine must decide if freedom is worth the price - now that she has more to lose than ever.

3. Sever

With the clock ticking until the virus takes its toll, Rhine is desperate for answers. After enduring Vaughn’s worst, Rhine finds an unlikely ally in his brother, an eccentric inventor named Reed. She takes refuge in his dilapidated house, though the people she left behind refuse to stay in the past. While Gabriel haunts Rhine’s memories, Cecily is determined to be at Rhine’s side, even if Linden’s feelings are still caught between them. Meanwhile, Rowan’s growing involvement in an underground resistance compels Rhine to reach him before he does something that cannot be undone. But what she discovers along the way has alarming implications for her future—and about the past her parents never had the chance to explain. In this breathtaking conclusion to Lauren DeStefano’s Chemical Garden trilogy, everything Rhine knows to be true will be irrevocably shattered. 

Novel:
1.5. The seeds of Wither
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