4 stars! ****
Author: Lauren Oliver
Title: Delirium (Delirium #1)
Lena lives in a world where love is considered a disease. Where Romeo and Juliet is being read as an cautionary tale. Where you are given "cure" when you reach eighteen years. And by cure I mean that you have basically no feelings - you don't feel anger, love or passion. It's a world where you live in fear, where there is a curfew for uncured ones, where you almost can't talk to other gender (but it's okay if that someone is cured, because then he can't fall in love - can't be contaminated). Symphatizers are being send to prison or executed, an Invalid is someone who comes from the Wilds.
Her mother was contaminated and in the end commited suicide. [SPOILER: She didn't kill herself, they send her to the deepest of deepests prisons. She ran away.]
She and her friend Hana kind of fell apart when Hana starts being rebellious and starts to do illegal things - she goes outside after curfew and talks to boys.
She is only few months from being cured when she meets Alex [SPOILER: He's an Invalid.].
We get some "real" storyline after circa hundred pages. There are lots of descriptions, but they also make the world feel real. It describes the atmosphere and mood perfectly so you feel like you are there.
[SPOILER: I felt for Lena, despised Hana when she turned on Lena and fell in love with Alex who's so sweet with his little poetry reading it almost hurts.]
It (obviously) ends with a cliffhanger the size of Australia, so you just have to read the rest of the trilogy.
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