Special double feature today. I read Delirium last year when it came out. The premise sounded really interesting. "What happens if love were considered a disease?" And so I borrowed it from work and read it...twice. It was so well written, so descriptive it was like I was there in the book, I could picture everything. When I finished with it the second time I was anxiously awaiting the second and third books due out in Feb. 2012 and 2013. Well imagine my shock and delight when an ARC (advanced reader copy) appeared at work on Tuesday. I immediately snatched it up, did a happy dance and set about reading it. Now that I have finished it, I have reviewws for both books, while waiting and wanting the final book.
So Delirium tells the story of a girl, Lena Halloway right before she is supposed to get her "cure" from the disease of love. Basically the cure is a lobotomy that is performed when you turn 18. Prior to that time the only real contact that you have with the opposite sex is your father and if you have any brothers. After you are "cured" you basically become a zombie and do not feel passionately about anything, love and hate become bad words and showing emotion about anything is dangerous. So Lena is only a fw months away from her procedure, which she is looking forward. She lives with her aunt, uncle and two younger cousins, since she is under the impression that her mother is dead. Her mother had the procedure multiple times, but was never cured. Lena doesn't want to end up like her mother, so she anxioulsy awaits her cure date. Before you are cured though you are given a sort of aptitude test that will determine your future spouse, job, income, even how many children you will have. It is on the day of Lena's evaluation that she first sees Alex. Later she runs into Alex again and then begins to develop the disease of love. The rest of the book develops their love to the point where they are both willing to forsake their lives in civilization and escape to the Wilds, where the Invalids (the uncureds) live, where Alex was born. The ending is so sad, yet so well done that I couldn't wait for the next one.
The second book is told in alternating times. Each chapter goes between then and now. Then being when Lena was in the Wilds, after she escapes the regulators and leaves Alex behind. In the Wilds she meets a band of Invalids, who teach her the ways of the Wilds. Raven in the leader of the band who found and saved Lena when she was lost. Now is after Lena, Raven and Tack leave the Wilds and have joined the resistance. They have infiltrated civilization and are acting as spies for the resistane. Lena's assignment is to watch a boy, Julien, who happens to be the son of a high ranking DFA official. The two are kidnapped at a rally and because of their close quaters they begin to fall in love. Because this book isnt out for another 2 months that is all I will say for now on the book, but fear not Alex fans, he may be making apperance at the very end in the cruelest of all cliffhangers.
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