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"Before scientists found the cure, people thought love was a good thing."

Once you fall in love, you've caught the disease. You think differently, you act differently, and nothing is right. Luckily, once you turn eighteen, you can receive the cure. You'll live a perfectly predictable, normal life. Before eighteen, you're on your own. The cure can't work on someone that young, the side effects could be devastating.

At first, Lena Holoway couldn't wait until the day she'd finally receive the cure to "Amor Deliria Nervosa". But after encountering a few out-of-the-ordinary circumstances, she starts to think differently.

Lauren Oliver created such a unique and well-written story. Delirium had me hooked from the first page. I wanted to learn more about Lena's society; how it functions, what the people are like, and how life can go on without love. I felt like the whole thing could actually happen. Love as a disease? at first you'd think "no way". But with the explanations given in the handbook, it's plausible, and coming up with the idea for it just shows Lauren Oliver's creativity.

I love Lena. She's so sweet and seemingly oblivious to what love really is. In the beginning her thought process and how she considers the strong emotion are awesome. When she figures it out.. well, I'll let you see what happens.

I can never say enough how much I love books like this- set in the future with an alternate way of life, completely different from our own. A creative mind is needed to make something unique and outside the box, and Delirium fits this completely.
5/5 stars. Definitely.