![]() ![]() A virus claims men at age 25 and women when they’re 20, usually in a fit of bloody coughs and fever. An unintended consequence of those First Generation test-tube babies is the short lives of their offspring. ![]() Seventy years earlier, natural conception was shunned in favor of perfectly engineered embryos. In this kickoff to her Chemical Garden Trilogy, 16-year-old Rhine Ellery has just been taken by a Gatherer who kidnaps girls once they’re able to bear children - murdering those who are undesirable, selling others into prostitution and marrying off the rest to make babies and perpetuate the human race. ![]() So it’s been with Suzanne Collins’ “The Hunger Games,” Ally Condie’s “Matched” and now “Wither,” the first book in a wonderfully creepy new series from debut novelist Lauren DeStefano. Their missions: overthrowing corrupt, entrenched patriarchies. Set in environmentally degraded or post-apocalyptic Americas, their young heroines are feisty. The strong dystopian themes in today’s young-adult books are frequently infused with feminism. ![]()
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