Review: Hana - Book #1.5 Delirium Series - Lauren Oliver - December 2011 I have a confession to make. This book had been sitting on my Kindle since January 2012, quietly waiting, until now. Sometimes a story finds you exactly when it's meant to, and picking up Hana after all these years felt less like reading a novella and more like stepping back through a door I didn't know I'd left open. Reading it transported me straight back to 2010–2012, that golden era when dystopian YA ruled every bookshelf and every teenage heart. It also brought back a memory I treasure, organising a Zoom call with Lauren Oliver herself for a teen reading finale at Tauranga Libraries, right here in little ol' New Zealand. Talk about full circle. Hana gives us the summer before the cure, told from the other side of the friendship at the heart of Delirium. While Lena is pulling away from the noise and risk of the underground world, Hana is doing the opposite  chasing every last taste of freed...

Review: Raven - Book #2.5 Delirium Series - Lauren Oliver - March 2013 What does one do when they want to read, but everything they try is just not grabbing them? They go exploring for something to hit the spot this morning after a series of failed DNFs. I was desperate for something and by then I just wanted a quick read too. Something to fill my reading spot and so scrolling through my Kindle, I came across a short story by Lauren Oliver called Raven. This was one of the short story spin-offs from her series Delirium. This brought back memories as I read Delirium when it was first released and loved it as the world of YA reading back then was all about the "Dystopian worlds". In this book, we meet Raven and Tack who are part of the Wilds - the ones helping Lena who was the main character of Delirium. The Wilds are the ones who haven't conformed to the world ideology, the ones who haven't been brainwashed into thinking that Love is a disease or a form of Deliria. I...

Review: Broken Things - Lauren Oliver - October 2018 Five years ago, there were three friends Mia, Brynne, and Summer. They loved this book wich Summer had carried around, and they decided to create their sequel to the book as it was one of those fantasy novels where the author finished on a cliffhanger and then died before she could write/release book two. During this year though, the girls were all growing up at different levels. From Mia the youngest who was all about friendships and her crush on Oliver, Brynne who was discovering the world of relationships and her revelation that she was gay and in love with Summer. Then there was Summer, who had Oliver as her boyfriend. That year, three friends went out, and only two returned home as it is discovered that Summer has been murdered . The police all thought that Mia and Brynne had done it as the way she was killed was similar to their fanfiction novel. Now it is coming up to the fifth anniversary of Summer...