Delirium by Lauren Oliver (ABSOLUTELY LOVED THE BOOK!!! TOTES RECOMENDED)
In this small town of portland surrounded by walls keeping in the cattle, lives Lena a girl who lives her life based on a lie. The entire world fears love, they think it's a disease. They think that all it causes is pain and sorrow. Lena believes this lies and lives by it. They have a cure for love but they can only get it when their 18 so that it doesn't cause any damage to the person. But then one day a boy comes in and switches her view. Or in other words, make her actually like love. Who is this boy? What happens to make her life switch upside down? Read the book to find out.
This book had once made a reference to cattle in a pen and it made me think of an Edgar Allen Poe story called "The Masque Of The Red Death" where the red death disease is spreading and it's making people bleed to death. And so the prince comes and takes a group of people he liked and had them stay at his castle to keep them from dying as well. But that plan doesn't work because during a masquerade party the red death in a physical form comes and kills them all. So it reminded me of this because they're keeping out the people who are diseased with love and if any of them are inside the walls of portland they are killed at once, that or imprisoned. Or you can also think of it as their point of view and they're keeping the people safe on the inside when really it's a failure because people still love obviously.
The book has strong emotion in it. The book kept me on edge and waiting to see what happens next. The emotions that come off the book are strong. The book can be really cute at times between the two insurgents. This book is dystopian, it's also a book about teen romance, adventure, fighting for what's right, can be a little scary or gross at times. One thing that should be taken into consideration before reading this book, it that it does have a couple of swear words in it. If you are uncomfortable with that I don't think you should read this book, but it only happens a couple of times: "'Fuck you.' in the end, these are two words that come." pg 111
"'Fuck you.' she's trying to be nice, but my mind is closed up and the words come out on their own," pg.111. I think it swears just a couple more times but it doesn't swear often.
The book itself is written beautifully and very descriptive. Thus the summary that the book has on the back of it "In an alternate United States, love has been declared a dangerous disease, and the government forces everyone who reaches eighteen to have a procedure called the Cure. living with her aunt, uncle, and cousins in Portland, Maine. Lena Haloway is very much looking forward to being cured and living a safe, predictable life. She watched love destroy her mother and isn't about to make the same mistake.
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