Seventy years earlier, natural conception was shunned in favor of perfectly engineered embryos. In this kickoff to her Chemical Garden Trilogy, 16-year-old Rhine Ellery has just been taken by a Gatherer who kidnaps girls once they’re able to bear children - murdering those who are undesirable, selling others into prostitution and marrying off the rest to make babies and perpetuate the human race.
So it’s been with Suzanne Collins’ “The Hunger Games,” Ally Condie’s “Matched” and now “Wither,” the first book in a wonderfully creepy new series from debut novelist Lauren DeStefano. Their missions: overthrowing corrupt, entrenched patriarchies. Set in environmentally degraded or post-apocalyptic Americas, their young heroines are feisty. The strong dystopian themes in today’s young-adult books are frequently infused with feminism.
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