Book Review: Sever

Sever by Lauren DeStefano

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


This one's a little below a four, but not much so, and I'm sort of grading for the whole series, which I have enjoyed. It's an interesting premise, where a genetic virus kills girls at 20 and boys at 25, and how that has changed the world as we know it. DeStefano's imagining of such a world is always creepy and devastating and interesting. The series suffers sometimes from a dragging pace, and a lot of capture/recapture, which grows a bit tiresome. But it is beautifully written, well-imagined, and emotionally powerful, so for those reasons it gets a four.



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