Ratings10
Average rating3.2
With the clock ticking until the virus takes its toll, Rhine is desperate for answers. After enduring Vaughn’s worst, Rhine finds an unlikely ally in his brother, an eccentric inventor named Reed. She takes refuge in his dilapidated house, though the people she left behind refuse to stay in the past. While Gabriel haunts Rhine’s memories, Cecily is determined to be at Rhine’s side, even if Linden’s feelings are still caught between them.
Meanwhile, Rowan’s growing involvement in an underground resistance compels Rhine to reach him before he does something that cannot be undone. But what she discovers along the way has alarming implications for her future—and about the past her parents never had the chance to explain.
In this breathtaking conclusion to Lauren DeStefano’s Chemical Garden trilogy, everything Rhine knows to be true will be irrevocably shattered.
Series
3 primary books4 released booksThe Chemical Garden is a 5-book series with 4 primary works first released in 2011 with contributions by Lauren DeStefano, J. Lynn, and 3 others.
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I enjoyed this one, particularly over the second book. For me, it was on par with the first one as far as engagement goes. I still maintain the second one probably didn't need to exist. (But everything seems to have to be a trilogy these days...)
i really do like lauren destefano's writing. i just don't think the massive task that is dystopian worldbuilding is something she was meant to do.
that being said, what i'd REALLY like to see from her is a non-dystopian STANDALONE. something in which she can focus on the characters and not on the high! stakes!
also series may have a $$$ factor behind them, but that every single freakin thing has to be part of a trilogy these days bugs me so much. they're paced too far apart that by the time i crack open the next instalment i've already lost any interest i had in the characters.