Contemporary/ Trilogy/ Series: Trilogy
Author: Lauren Oliver
Pages: 441
Rating: ✭✭✭
Goodreads Summary: Ninety-five days, and then I'll be safe. I wonder whether the procedure will hurt. I want to get it over with. It's hard to be patient. It's hard not to be afraid while I'm still uncured, though so far the deliria hasn't touched me yet. Still, I worry. They say that in the old days, love drove people to madness. The deadliest of all deadly things: It kills you both when you have it and when you don't. (Goodreads Summary)
Review:
Delirium takes place in a dystopian U.S society where love has become a disease. To stop this disease, every 18 year old must go through with a neurological surgery to ensure that they are no longer capable of feeling love. Lena, the protagonist, firmly believes that love is a disease and can't wait to be cured, that is, until she meets Alex.
Lauren came up with an amazing plot line and this book has every element to be an exciting story but sadly, in my opinion, it isn't. I heard many great things about this book and I couldn't wait to read it! I love dystopian YA novels and I couldn't wait to see this story line unfold. I picked this book up from the library and began reading. I have to say, I was vey disappointed. This book is simply too long! I'm sure this plot would have made an amazing book, not so much a trilogy. Since this story is so stretched out, something had to fill the pages of the book and Lauren did that by repeating information over and over again, which I found very annoying! I kept reading, just waiting for something exciting to happen and I got through half the book before something exciting actually happened!
However, there are some things I liked about this story, one of those being characters. I loved how realistic Lauren made the character of Lena. Her personality fit perfectly with the situations she was put in. I also loved the quotes from The Book of SHHH and other school books at the beginning of each chapter. I loved reading through these messages that have been drilled into the minds of the characters ever since they are children. It really helped me better understand this world that Lena lives in.
I may end up reading the rest of this trilogy but it's not high up on my TBR list. If you like reading slow romance novels, I recommend this book to you (I know many people who enjoyed it) but if you're looking for something a little more action-packed then I don't think you'll enjoy this book. I'll be giving this book a three star rating on Goodreads, though I wish I could have given it something a little higher.
Happy Reading! ❤
Delirium takes place in a dystopian U.S society where love has become a disease. To stop this disease, every 18 year old must go through with a neurological surgery to ensure that they are no longer capable of feeling love. Lena, the protagonist, firmly believes that love is a disease and can't wait to be cured, that is, until she meets Alex.
Lauren came up with an amazing plot line and this book has every element to be an exciting story but sadly, in my opinion, it isn't. I heard many great things about this book and I couldn't wait to read it! I love dystopian YA novels and I couldn't wait to see this story line unfold. I picked this book up from the library and began reading. I have to say, I was vey disappointed. This book is simply too long! I'm sure this plot would have made an amazing book, not so much a trilogy. Since this story is so stretched out, something had to fill the pages of the book and Lauren did that by repeating information over and over again, which I found very annoying! I kept reading, just waiting for something exciting to happen and I got through half the book before something exciting actually happened!
However, there are some things I liked about this story, one of those being characters. I loved how realistic Lauren made the character of Lena. Her personality fit perfectly with the situations she was put in. I also loved the quotes from The Book of SHHH and other school books at the beginning of each chapter. I loved reading through these messages that have been drilled into the minds of the characters ever since they are children. It really helped me better understand this world that Lena lives in.
I may end up reading the rest of this trilogy but it's not high up on my TBR list. If you like reading slow romance novels, I recommend this book to you (I know many people who enjoyed it) but if you're looking for something a little more action-packed then I don't think you'll enjoy this book. I'll be giving this book a three star rating on Goodreads, though I wish I could have given it something a little higher.
Happy Reading! ❤
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