I am currently reading the book Sever, which is the third book in the Chemical Garden Series by Lauren DeStefano. The series takes place in the future, a world where the cure for cancer goes horribly wrong and causes males to only live to age twenty-five and females to the age of twenty. Rhine Ellery is a sixteen year old girl living in New York, when she is kidnapped and brought to Florida to be put into a polygamous marriage. Having escaped the mansion,(and the oppression of her terrifying father-in-law, Housemaster Vaughn) Rhine and her former attendant and lover Gabriel set for Manhattan to find Rowan, Rhine's brother. They arrive at the Ellerys' to find that it has burned down. Rhine is captured by Vaughn and brought back to Florida, where she undergoes horrific medical procedures revolving around her having Heterochromia (the condition of having two separate colored eyes). When she wakes up, Cecily,her sister wife, 14, is pregnant for the second time. Linden, her ex-husband,who Rhine has mixed feelings for, arranges for the three of them to stay with Linden's kind uncle in order to escape from Vaughn until Rhine can proceed back into New York to try and get back to Rowan. While there, they learn that Rowan, believing Rhine is dead, has joined forces with Vaughn to find a cure for the virus. He is also a terrorist bomber.
After learning about the good that Vaughn has done, mixed with he evil, Rhine is very unsure how to feel about him. For the past three books, the reader has been convinced by Rhine to hate Vaughn with a burning passion, that he is a very evil old man. Now, with Vaughn's abrupt change in character, both Rhine and I feel very confused. Rhine listens to Vaughn talk about hope, renewal, and how he has found a cure, and how this cure is them, while he inserts needles into her willing brother's eyes. If I were Rhine, I would be wary of Vaughn. Evil people can have good sides, and so on.
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