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I will! Have you read Before I Fall by her? It’s great.
YES I LOVED IT. I think it’s the best of her books so far.
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I didn’t like Wither :( I didn’t like that she had feelings toward Linden who wasn’t innocent and *spoiler for Wither* she kept her virginity intact. She still could have went there even if it was YA and it would have had more impact like Handmaid’s.
I didn’t like that she had feelings toward Linden either, but I was glad they weren’t really romantic/sexual feelings, because I remember starting the book and thinking that if Rhine fell in love with him I was going to throw the book across the room. I also felt like, even though Linden was certainly not innocent, he was also kind of a victim of the same system. Certainly not to the same extent as the girls, and he obviously had crazy privilege, but he was also being lied to by his dad and used. Rhine sympathized with him and I don’t think that was a terrible thing.
I don’t remember what I thought about the choice to keep Rhine a virgin, though I was expecting them to go there and kind of dreading it, because it would have been a rape scene. I think with Linden having sex with a 13-year-old and then knocking her up, DeStefano’s editors probably thought they’d hit their teen fornication limit.
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harrenhalsghost said:
Especially since he knocked up a thirteen year old. Also, I thought in a society that was really like that, realistically, Rhine wouldn’t have had a choice. Just as Offred didn’t. I think that’s why it bugged me so much. But it was YA I suppose.
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sherlockable said:
I think the thirteen-year-old getting knocked up was EVERYONE’S teen fornication limit for that novel.
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