Gain Access Delírio (O Jardim Químico, #2) Engineered By Lauren DeStefano File Format Digital Version

is Bookof the Chemical Garden Trilogy

Rhine and Gabriel have succeeded in escaping the mansion, and they are determined to find Rhine's brother, Rowan.
However, it's a very short time before they are in danger again as they fall into the grips of an evil brothel owner.


I really liked some of the secondary characters introduced in "Fever", I had a very soft spot for young Maddie, We learn a lot about her and her story really tugged at my heartstrings, Lilac, Silas, Jared and Claire were also great characters that I wanted to know more about, They met up with all sorts of people, Lots of bizarre characters at the carnival brothel, some very strange restaurant owners, as well as a psychic.
But again some of the characters stories just seemed to end abruptly and I was left wondering what became of them.


I read though this rather quickly, I will admith though, that I was skimming the pages a little, I was anxious to know what was going to happen, It seemed like there was a lot of detail about events that didn't seem all that important and yet a lot of important questions went unanswered.
I really wanted to learn more about the real world outside the mansion but it just felt like not very much happened in this book.


I found the relationship between Rhine and Gabriel odd, They almost seemed like brother and sister at times, I found myself wondering half the time if

Gabriel even wanted to be there, Don't get me wrong there are some tender moments but it just felt strange to me,

I'm glad I didn't stop reading though as it does start to get pretty interesting towards the end of the book.
I was happy to see some of the characters I was wondering about and I really wanted to know what was going to happen next.


Left with a huge cliffhanger at the end of the book which makes me want to know what happens even more.
Hopefully a lot of questions will be answered in the final book, SEVER, I am still very invested in many of the characters and I must know what happens to them and the world they live in.

HOLY WOW. People say that it's hard to write reviews for books you don't like, but I honestly think it's harder to write them for books you absolutely LOVE! Wither was one of my favourite reads of all time and Fever is just as breathtaking, if not more!

Lauren DeStefano has some of the most beautiful prose I've ever read! She hooks you in from the very beginning and traps you in a dark dystopian world unlike any other.
And you wouldn't think so, but the GORGEOUS cover actually has a lot to do with the story with its old carnivals, rusty merrygorounds, and dying girls covered in glitter.


Rhine is such an amazing voice for this novel! Like a poet at heart, she's strong and hopeful and resilient and caring.
We get to spend more time and fall more in love with Gabriel too , and some old characters surprise us while some new ones cling to our hearts.


I love the dystopian world that DeStefano creates because it's so dark and gritty and scarily realistic, where a disease claims the life of ever man at ageand every woman at age.
With amazing characters, writing, and story, she makes every surprising corner come to life!

Beautiful, lyrical, and dark in its enchantment, Fever is one of those books that makes me want to invent a new rating for it! Some may say that The Chemical Garden series isn't for everyone because it's so dark at times, but I would honestly recommend it to everyone! :

BUY or BORROW: You need to buy this book when it comes out I'm definitely buying my own finished copy! Lauren DeStefano is undoubtedly an author worth starting a collection for!

Original review at sitelinkMimi Valentine's YA Blog Not good at all.



Oh, wait, No one likes it when I leave a single sentence review, Breathless fangirls and guys are even now lurking in the darkness of the internet, waiting to leap out with their all caps denunciations: HOW CAN U SAY THAT WITH NO REASON U JUST DONT GET IT ITS TO DEEP FOR YOU.
I'm sorry. I'm sure some of them can spell, I'm a little bitter from my last bad Goodreads experience, with other fan fave 'Name of the Wind'.
But there's no need to be rude, and I'm sorry for casting aspersions upon DeStefano's fan base,

I guess there's something that reminds me of 'Name' about this book, The same overwrought faux Victorian prose, loaded with improbably purple dialogue and shoddy character descriptions, Here's something that has bugged me forpages: the main character at one point claims to 'mutter something unintelligibly' to herself.
Can you do that I mean, even if you mutter very softly and don't enunciate, I'm pretty sure you still know what you're saying.
With all of the other problems with the book, I am not sure why that one stuck in my teeth, but there you go.


If you, like me, love books about bleak pitiless futures and strange diseases, just give this book a miss, no matter how alluring it may seem.
You could have just stopped at my first sentence, Fever is really not good, DeStefano has captured the tone of a melodramatic teenager who mistakenly believes she's Very Deep, but since the entire book sounds the same, I'm not sure it's a stylistic choice as much as it's simply crappy prose.
She very nicely thanks her editor for helping her with her "erratic" writing, but clearly more help was needed.


I'd feel worse about panning this but I'm sick of YA books with a rape and/or victim fetish.
And though as a feminist I should say that's what I'm MOST sick of, I'm even more sick of wading through heavily promoted, big budget, poorly written books.



Now, you kids get off my lawn!

The end, This book was a mess, What was it even about

Full review is also on my sitelinkblog,

What the HAIL This book was a total disaster! I think the only reason I finished it was because I so confused I didn't know to stop reading.
The different sections were disconnected, There was almost zero world building, and it made no sense, I read the first book Wither last summer when I wasn't blogging and I gave itstars, I know that I am much less critical of books when I'm not thinking about what I'm going to write about them later, but I definitely do not remember thinking Wither was this bad.
I remember thinking that there were some inconsistencies in the world, For one, if people are so desperate to round up women to get them pregnant, why would they have shot all the extra girls Whatever redeeming qualities there were in Wither, that made me give itdefinitely do not exist in this one.
I don't think I can cover everything about this book that was just not right, . . I'd be here all day, but here are some of the highlights and spoilers:

Right after their escape Rhine and Gabriel are imprisoned by a redlight district Madamea total stereotypical caricature who speaks in revolving Russian and French accents.
For about the first half of the book, Madame keeps Rhine and Gabriel in an opiate and apparently aphrodisiac haze.
Bizarrely, Stefano protects Rhine from straight up prostitution which would have at least been believable and instead has Rhine and Gabriel "perform" in an open air bird cage for customers.
I think they go all the way, It's implied, but not described thankfully so it's unclear exactly what they are doing, On top of that, there's a malformed child that only crawls and can't speak but is apparently intelligentI suppose we are supposed to somehow identify her I've yet to figure out why she is in the book.


Spoiler alert, they finally escape, right when Vaughn the original villain finds them, I still cannot figure out the point behind the interlude at Madame's, Rhine shows none of the desire to leave that she did at Vaughn's, despite being forced into sexual acts which she never was at Vaughn's and knowing that Gabriel was being forced to take drugs.


They do finally escape, right as Vaughn shows up how convenient, They stop at a restaurant where the owners end up being psychopaths, The womanlike apparently all firstgen women in this seriesso overcome with the loss of her own child, creepily acts as if the crippled girl is her own child.
And the manlike all men in this seriesis for some reason only interested in Rhine for sex and tries to rape her.
Apparently, gentlemen, in times of hardship, your base instinct is to treat all women as if they are plastic sex dolls.
I'm not sure if DeStefano was trying to make a point here about the objectification of women or definitions of rapebut all she ends up doing is normalizing rape within this world.
Girls are only good for two things in this worldsex and pregnancy, There's no explanation, no discussion of why this is or why it is wrong, In fact, DeStefano ends up telling us that some forms of rape are ok in comparison to others.
Linden "loves" his wives, and he had an "understanding" with at least one of them, so therefore having sex with them is fine.
Cecily WANTS to become pregnant, even though she is only about, While on the run, Rhine actually misses Linden, That situation only seems wrong because we know that Vaughn is behind the wheel with nefarious plans, With Madame, Rhine avoids straight up prostitution by agreeing to perform with Gabrielbut HELLO she is still being forced and drugged.
Yes, Rhine does it partly to protect Gabriel, but that is STILL rape or sexual assault see confusion above.
It's only when Rhine is physically forced, like by the restaurant owner, that it is truly rape and therefore something that traumatizes her.
Of course, in that situation, she is conveniently saved by Gabriel who just "felt" that something was wrong with that guy.
So the true rape, the true horror, is never even played out,

I had so many feminist issues with this book that I need to stop there, It is just too much, I seriously think DeStefano needs to take a women's studies course, And a political science or economics course, This leads me to my final thought, Attention authors: If you don't understand that building a dystopian world requires some political or economic knowledge and insight into OUR own world then you shouldn't be writing dystopian lit.
Bottom line. The world in this series makes no sense, There is mention of the president, who is now just a figurehead and whose position is inherited, Um ok so how did that happen And what is the point What does that bit of information add to Rhine's story There's apparently some conflict between scientists and naturaliststhose who think they should try to fix the virus and those who think apparently that the human race should just be able to die out.
This conflict seems to be an afterthought until the "cliffhanger" at the end of the book, And I would say, I saw that coming, if the scientists vs, naturalists conflict had appeared sooner than right near the end of the book,

Stefano implies that Rhine and Rowan have some quality as they were probably one of their parent's many experiments that will solve the virus problem.
Actually, it's laid on pretty thick, from their eyes, the revealed conversations between Julia and Gabriel, Vaughn's obsession with her.
. . But we are given nothing to lead us further into why she is different, This is a problem I have with a lot series books, You don't have wait and reveal everything at the end, Give us more information when it makes sense in the story, Don't just hint at it, give it to us, That way it won't be a surprise that either makes no sense or just pisses me off,

Honestly, I will probably read the last one when it comes out, Mainly because it is a trainwreck that I cannot look away from, This book reads like a "what no to do" for dystopian authors, .