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Friday Firsts: Wither by Lauren DeStefano #Meme

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Blogger Meme: Friday Firsts :!:try to tweet about all participants, so don’t forget to include your Twitter username if you want to be notified of your tweet mention! :!: The first line can make or break a reader’s interest. Just how well did the author pull you in to the story with their first sentence? To participate in this weekly book meme is extremely easy.

  • Grab the book you are currently reading and open to the first page.
  • Write down the first sentence in the first paragraph.
  • Create a blog post with this information. (Make sure to include the title & author of the book you are using. Even an ISBN helps!)
  • Did this first sentence help draw you into the story? Why or why not?
  • Come back to this blog post, hosted on WellReadReviews.com and add your comment to the post.

That’s it :) Here is my Friday Firsts: Wither by Lauren DeStefano (ISBN: 978-1442409057) 368 pages.

I wait. They keep us in the dark for so long that we lose sense of our eyelids.

I am picturing half naked people huddled together like cattle; dirty, filthy, and full of fear. Whether or not that is the actual image, it has piqued my curiosity. Who and why are these nameless people huddled together in the dark and for so long they are beginning to lose sense of their eyelids? Synopsis: (Taken from Amazon.com)

By age sixteen, Rhine Ellery has four years left to live. She can thank modern science for this genetic time bomb. A botched effort to create a perfect race has left all males with a lifespan of 25 years, and females with a lifespan of 20 years. Geneticists are seeking a miracle antidote to restore the human race, desperate orphans crowd the population, crime and poverty have skyrocketed, and young girls are being kidnapped and sold as polygamous brides to bear more children.When Rhine is kidnapped and sold as a bride, she vows to do all she can to escape.
Her husband, Linden, is hopelessly in love with her, and Rhine can’t bring herself to hate him as much as she’d like to. He opens her to a magical world of wealth and illusion she never thought existed, and it almost makes it possible to ignore the clock ticking away her short life. But Rhine quickly learns that not everything in her new husband’s strange world is what it seems. Her father-in-law, an eccentric doctor bent on finding the antidote, is hoarding corpses in the basement. Her fellow sister wives are to be trusted one day and feared the next, and Rhine is desperate to communicate to her twin brother that she is safe and alive. Will Rhine be able to escape–before her time runs out?
Graphic: Thank you to Tara for the graphics! (And Cara for suggesting that she make some!)

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