Delirium - Lauren Oliver

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Title: Delirium
Author: Lauren Oliver
Genre: Dystopian
Rating: 3/5
# pages: 441
Date read: December, 2012

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

As dystopian novels go, I wasn't too impressed. It's a decent enough story, but books like "Divergent", "Matched" and "Uglies" do a better job of creating a very similar universe, and all in all this one just ended up seeming predictable.

It did keep me nicely entertained, but I was never fully engaged in the story. It didn't become personal, the way I like books to be.