Review : Delirium - Lauren Oliver

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Review: Delirium - Lauren Oliver- Feb 2011

Amor deliria nervosa. The disease of love , In a world sixty years into the future. It has been acknowledged that love is the root of all evil and a disease that we can all do without. All residents at the age of 18 must undertake an evaluation and be cured with an injection from this thing called Love. Once injected , you will be matched with your perfect partner whom after college you shall marry and have children. It is driven into the brains of all who live in this world from an early age that love is not something that we shall feel. Delirium starts with Lena Halloway who has ninety-five days before she turns 18 and recieves the cure. When she is having her evaluation, she meets a boy called Alex , at first she believes their interaction is purely friendship but soon feelings of love develop. We also see Lena's best friend Hana chosing the way of the outsiders known as The Wild or Invalids- those who have not or refuse to be cured. In the weeks leading up to her recieving the cure, we see Lena torn between two worlds , the one she has been brought up to believe and the one that her eyes have been opened up too. When it comes to Lena's day , will she choose happiness and love that comes with exile to be with Alex and her best friend Hana or will Lena accept the norm and have the cure to stop the feeling of love . Read as Lena discovers that either choice comes with a life filled with consequences.