Delirium Book Review

"It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed."
 
The whole idea behind this trilogy just shouldn't work, but it does. It was beautiful, romantic, and action packed. The writing style was great, for me at least. I think that it might not work for some people though. Lauren Oliver writes with a lot of metaphors, and some people might find that annoying, and I do a little bit. But they are such beautiful metaphors that I had a problem hating them.

"Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That's what it is: an edge, a razor. It draws up through the center of you life, cutting everything in two. Before and after. The rest of the world falls away on either side."

See, don't you think that is just beautiful? So for me, the writing style was a big plus. I also felt for the characters. When they hurt, I hurt, it was really emotional. It was just a great start to the trilogy.

Our main character is Lena. She lives in Portland, where love is considered the most deadly of all diseases. They have borders around the cities, curfews, and cures to protect them from the "deliria". You can only get the cure once you are 18, or it has bad side effects. Well really it has bad side effects anyways. It makes it so you can't love, can't feel, and the sick thing is that everyone believes in the cure. They believe that being in love will kill you and that the government is just trying to protect them by beating people for going to parties and killing them for getting the deliria.

They have different schools for boys and girls and lots of scary stories to make them believe they will get sick if they kiss someone and what not. Lena always believed their stories until Alex makes her change her mind. Alex is an "invalid" that meets Lena and they fall in love. Invalids are people that live outside of the protected cities and rebel from the idea that love is a disease. They live in the Wilds and barely survive every day, but they are free.

Lena has a best friend named Hana. Her and Hana run together and later on Hana shows her that their is another way to live your life. She was actually one of my favorite characters, besides Alex, because she was a rebel and was a free thinker. But Alex was my favorite. He was so romantic and selfless, basically your dream guy. He read poetry to her for crying out load.

This book was great for me. It is a romantic thriller that you can't miss.