Delirium by Lauren Oliver
Series: Delirium #1
Publisher: HarperTeen
Synopsis:Before scientists found the cure, people
thought love was a good thing.
They didn’t understand that once love -- the
deliria -- blooms in your blood, there is no escaping its hold. Things are
different now. Scientists are able to eradicate love, and the government
demands that all citizens receive the cure upon turning eighteen. Lena Holoway
has always looked forward to the day when she’ll be cured. A life without love
is a life without pain: safe, measured, predictable, and happy.
But with ninety-five days left until her
treatment, Lena does the unthinkable: She falls in love.
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed Delirium, and although it was a little slow
at first I quickly got into it. I have to be honest when I read the blurb of
this book it didn't really interest me, but after reading a few of the
reviews on Goodreads I decided to give it a go.
I loved the concept of love as a disease, and when you read the
book you realise that it's not just love that they consider bad. The way that
she describes what is essentially a brainwashed, monotone, emotionless
population is fabulous. I could really see how the children were different from
those who were over eighteen, and who had already received this
"Cure".
At first I really worried that this book about forbidden love
would turn out to be a massive bucket of cheese, and about as deep as a puddle,
but instead this book manages to step away from this trope. She not only looks
at the way the cure affects romantic relationships, but at the way if affects
family and friendships too, and I think that this is one of the reasons this
book doesn't become a massive forbidden love cheese fest. This
book discusses so many different kinds of love not just romantic
love, and I think this is one of the most exciting things about this
novel.
The world that Lauren Oliver weaved was absolutely fantastic. She
really drew you into the book and even made me feel that this dystopia
future could actually be possible. The way that everyone seems to just accept
this "cure", and there is this looming sense
of awfulness that reminds me a little of The Hunger Games in which
everyone accepted that the games are a fact of life rather than
the atrocity that it was.
Recommend: Yes, Lauren Oliver weaved a world that I simultaneously
wanted to escape from, and get dragged deeper into. I
highly recommend this one.
Stars
★★★★★
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