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Tonight I finished the first of a four book series called Delirium. The book has won all sorts of awards including NPR’s top 100 teen novels of all time and named a Best Book of the Year by USA Today, Kirkus, Amazon and YALSA. Personally, I found the book amazing! Even now I am shaking with the adrenalin from the last chapter in the book.

Delirium (the book) is about Lena, a girl of seventeen who is nearing her procedure called “the cure”. She will be fixed and no longer have the feelings and confusion she presently has. The world is a safely regulated place. She needs to score well on her oral examination and then have the procedure and her life is all planned from there.

What’s missing is that Lena’s favorite color is silver. Her best friend, Hana exposes her to things that are highly illegal and regulated. This starts Lena’s questions. Alex’s entrance to her life adds color and feelings to her structured world.

Lauren Oliver’s dysotopic world is frightening real, and not just because it is set in Portland, Maine with well known and recognized landmarks. Her main characters are people you can understand – teenager with questions and emotions. Their quest for understanding, the future and their belief that they are invincible are still recognizable no matter the time or the place. The hyperawareness and concerns feel realistic.

The emotional investment in the story and characters really speaks to a reader. Prepare to enter Lena’s world, you won’t want to leave.


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Delirium Delirium Trilogy Lauren Oliver Books Reviews

Lauren Oliver's poetic, lyrical writing shines in this hauntingly beautiful story about two people falling in love under precarious circumstances. A touching and forbidden love story to the core, I couldn't stop thinking about Delirium and the timeless love story Oliver wove after I finished.

In just ninety-five days Lena Haloway can take a deep breath and rest easy because she will get the cure for amora deliria nervosa. The government deemed love a terrible contagious disease and passed rules and regulations mandating that everyone at age of eighteen receive a cure by injection to rid themselves of feeling love.

Raised by her aunt after her mom was killed, Lena has no idea what love feels like. And she doesn't want to find out. Set in modern day Portland Maine, Lena has been raised to believe that love will kill you. She is a rule-follower and will stop at nothing to keep the deliria from entering her blood streaming and killing her. Her perfect little plan is put to the test when she meets an employee for the government, Alex Sheathes, at her first test. There is something in the way he carries himself that draws her to him, this unworldly charm and charisma. She runs into him again by chance and from that moment, the two begin to see one another as friends. Ever so slowly, Lena begins to experience things she has never felt before, feelings of affection and desire. Love?

Lena and Alex's love story is representative of the kind of love that everyone longs for. The emotional intensity they share is quietly ardent, pure, and untainted. Oliver captured the sentiment of first love and the fight for love perfectly. I felt for these characters every step of the way as they fought for every moment, every kiss, and every stolen glance.

Alex is one of my all-time favorite heroes. He is strong, protective, sweet and the really the perfect guy. One of my favorite scenes in this book was when he read Lena poetry. Lena had never heard these impassioned poems before and having the man she loved deliver them with such fervor was beautiful to read.

What made this story riveting was Lena's internal struggle to do what she thinks is right and following her heart. All of her external forces tell her that what she is feeling for Alex is dangerous, but she begins to make decisions for herself and fight for what she believes in — Love.

5 stars
First, let me say that I totally loved BEFORE I FALL, the author’s first book, which really packed an emotional punch.

The book is beautifully written in places--and the ending is perfect.

But somehow this book was a little “off” for me in other places. It’s as though the author just didn’t take the time to weave the details and fix the little plot inconsistencies that might have helped the plot come alive. She concentrates almost completely on the psychology of her main character–but she neglects a lot of other things. The total effect is to distance the reader from the events of the story.

I didn’t feel the book was grounded in place or time. In many ways, Lena’s home seems like a typical suburban neighborhood in the present. The story has to be happening at least 100 years in the future, and yet everything is the same–the canned food, the clothes, the ways things are done, the names of the secondary characters Carol, Jenny, Grace, Alex, Drew.

And the plot is also “off” and not believable. I’ll just give you one example.

**SPOILERS AHEAD**

Alex, a handsome, resourceful, independent, courageous, kind, and non-brainwashed boy is somehow attracted to Lena, who is a Stepford wife in the making–brainwashed, ordinary, dull, plain, as she sees herself, and absolutely hostile and rejecting (at least in the beginning) while completely ignoring her gorgeous, blonde, popular friend. Yep, like that actually happens in real life.

When will authors of YA novels aimed at teenage girls stop giving us these amazing, wonderful, nurturing, almost perfect male love interests? Teenage boys just aren’t like that, folks.

Then there’s the “raid” that occurs about halfway through the book. This is another event that strained my credulity. We’re to believe that this wary and frightened girl, who, a few pages back, was scared to death of being out after curfew–this girl leaves the house at midnight after an event as horrible and frightening as Kristallnacht in Germany.

Once Lena arrives at the party, the “regulators” break in with beatings and clubbings and dogs attacking everyone. Alex and Lena somehow manage to hide in a shed. Instead of showing the main characters scared of being discovered or worried about their friends, the author decides this is a good time to give us Alex’s back story. So Alex gives Lena a speech about his life and circumstances while all the violence is going on.

And then, later, with an excruciating wound in her leg--to say nothing of the loss of blood–the same girl strolls back hand-in-hand with her new boyfriend for over two and half miles, kissing in the shadows and totally oblivious to danger, having totally forgotten her best friend–the person she was trying to protect in the first place. Meanwhile, her watchful aunt, who never misses a beat, doesn’t even notice that the girl is gone or that she comes back wounded and bloody.

The whole thing seems completely unreal. I suppose it’s all possible, but it sure could have been set up better.

And what ever happened to Hana? How did she escape? And her boyfriend, Drew? Secondary characters fare even worse in the logic department in this book.
Tonight I finished the first of a four book series called Delirium. The book has won all sorts of awards including NPR’s top 100 teen novels of all time and named a Best Book of the Year by USA Today, Kirkus, and YALSA. Personally, I found the book amazing! Even now I am shaking with the adrenalin from the last chapter in the book.

Delirium (the book) is about Lena, a girl of seventeen who is nearing her procedure called “the cure”. She will be fixed and no longer have the feelings and confusion she presently has. The world is a safely regulated place. She needs to score well on her oral examination and then have the procedure and her life is all planned from there.

What’s missing is that Lena’s favorite color is silver. Her best friend, Hana exposes her to things that are highly illegal and regulated. This starts Lena’s questions. Alex’s entrance to her life adds color and feelings to her structured world.

Lauren Oliver’s dysotopic world is frightening real, and not just because it is set in Portland, Maine with well known and recognized landmarks. Her main characters are people you can understand – teenager with questions and emotions. Their quest for understanding, the future and their belief that they are invincible are still recognizable no matter the time or the place. The hyperawareness and concerns feel realistic.

The emotional investment in the story and characters really speaks to a reader. Prepare to enter Lena’s world, you won’t want to leave.