Showing posts with label "Romantic". Show all posts
Showing posts with label "Romantic". Show all posts

Friday, April 8, 2011

Delirium by Lauren Oliver

Delirium by Lauren Oliver
Imagine the United States say a hundred years in the future. What do you picture? A perfect society?  Well that's what Magdalena thinks she lives in.  To us. Not so much.  In this world love has been classified as a disease "amor deliria nervosa." Lena can't wait until her procedure just after her eighteenth birthday that will make her "immune" to love.  Until she meets Alex. She contracts a serious case of "amor deliria nervosa" and she doesn't even care. Alex helps her learn to think for herself and question the world she lives in.  Is love really a bad thing? The Invalids don't think so.  They're the people who live in the Wilds where the government can't get them and believe in a time when love was celebrated not feared. Will Lena and Alex make it together in a world where the government executes for sympathizing with Invalids? Or will their ending be as tragic as the old stories?  You have to find out on your own.