In my review for the first book in this trilogy, I said that
Wither was disgusting, but it was a
well written kind of disgusting. My review for the second book will probably
read just like the first one, because as expected the second book was just as,
if not more, disgusting than the first.
Rhine and Gabriel have escaped Linden’s mansion. Fever picks up right where Wither left off with the two on the run.
They’ve left the boat and have gone ashore only to be kidnapped by a madam in
the scarlet district in South Carolina. Rhine reminds the madam of her daughter
and that is why she isn’t made into one of the girls who have to sell herself
every night. Instead her and Gabriel become a ‘look, but don’t touch’ act.
There’s a lot of drugs involved in this novel, something called angel’s blood,
that reminds me a little of heroin. Gabriel is given steady doses to keep him
calm about the situation that he and Rhine are in.
Eventually, Gabriel and Rhine do get away from the scarlet
district, with a young charge named Maddie. They venture north to Manhattan to
find Rhine’s brother. After a few twists and turns, they get there only to find
her home blackened by fire. Rowan seems to have burned down the house and moved
on, thinking that his sister was dead. Not knowing where else to go, they try
and find the address written in the book that Maddie brought along with her. It
turns out it’s an orphanage, but the woman who runs the place, Claire, is
Maddie’s grandmother.
Things take a turn for the worst though when they show up at
this place. Rhine becomes ill. It almost resembles the virus, and Gabriel and
her know that it has something to do with her father-in-law Vaughn and his
experiments. Gabriel wants to go back to the mansion to get a cure, but Rhine
refuses to go, knowing that if she does she’ll end up a test dummy for even
more experiments.
Like I said at the beginning, this book was just as
disgusting as Wither was. Vaughn does
show up at the orphanage to take Rhine back to Linden’s mansion and she does wind up as an experiment host. The
descriptions of her hallucinations were just…shudder worthy and then some. When
you find out that the other experiment that Vaughn is working on involves
trying to get pre-pubescent girls to conceive children you just want to throw
up for hours on end. I won’t even mention the eye injection scene…oh wait, I
already did…but yikes. I could have done without the last fifty or so pages of
this novel, but damn. It was written really well.
Final Rating: 5 out of 5 stars. The second book was just as
good as the first one. Vaughn is one disgusting villain and I’m curious to see
how all of this ends.
Bookshelf worthy? Support your local library.
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