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Book Review: Fever

FEVER by Lauren DeStefano (The Chemical Garden #2)  3 Stars  Verdict: Miserable. And not in a good way. Let’s get one thing straight. I loved book one and I’m still pumped for book 3. Unfortunately this is a bridging story full of side plots. It was the aftermath of book 1 and the build up to book 3, and there’s one word to describe it. Miserable. What wasn’t miserable was a half-happy memory, scarred by the dystopian world. That in itself is pretty despondent. The beautiful prose made it sound like a reminiscent drone, and the scales were tipped towards pretentious in this book. Personally I didn’t connect with it like I did the last time. In particular, I never really understood the many references to bees. Life became grey for me when reading this. Well alright, the prose was beautiful so let’s say a shade of greyish lilac. So life was crap before and it’s crap now. And it’s only getting crapper. The people in their world don’t even want to fix the issue. In fact