Delirium by Lauren Oliver
They didn’t understand that once love -- the deliria -- blooms in your blood, there is no escaping its hold. Things are different now. Scientists are able to eradicate love, and the government demands that all citizens receive the cure upon turning eighteen. Lena Holoway has always looked forward to the day when she’ll be cured. A life without love is a life without pain: safe, measured, predictable, and happy.But with ninety-five days left until her treatment, Lena does the unthinkable: She falls in love.
Delirium, a totally gripping, enticing and intense book by Lauren Oliver. The setting is Portland USA, a little in the future from what I can guess, where love is classed as a disease. Most individuals support the government and want to be cured but there are, of course, the "invalids" the people who do not want to be cured and have, dangerously, ventured into the "Wilds" a place beyond the "safety" of barbed wire, electric fences and walls, a place where you are not allowed, you will be executed or thrown into the "crypts" if you are caught trying to escape. The streets are patrolled by the "regulators", who are there to catch anybody who may have contracted the deliria. Only approved music must be played, you shouldn't be too happy, singing, dancing, too much touching are all signs of the deliria. The deliria is deadly, “The deadliest of all deadly things: It kills you both when you have it and when you don’t.” (direct quote).
I loved this book, I mean I seriously couldn't put my Kindle down, in fact the second I finished reading Delirium I purchased the second instalment, "Pandemonium", and read that straight away. The ending was so intense, my palms were sweating, my heart rate went up, I was completely sucked in. Delirium will keep you completely at the edge of you seat the whole time.
