Delirium: The Special Edition
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Genres: Children's Books, Teen & Young Adult
Book Type: Hardcover
Author:
Genres: Children's Books, Teen & Young Adult
Book Type: Hardcover
Lauren Oliver's powerful New York Times bestselling novel Deliriumâthe first in a dystopian trilogyâpresents a world as terrifying as George Orwell's 1984 and a romance as true as Romeo & Juliet.
In an alternate United States, love has been declared a dangerous disease, and the government forces everyone who reaches eighteen to have a procedure called the Cure. Living with her aunt, uncle, and cousins in Portland, Maine, Lena Haloway is very much looking forward to being cured and living a safe, predictable life. She watched love destroy her mother and isn't about to make the same mistakes.
But with ninety-five days left until her treatment, Lena meets enigmatic Alex, a boy from the Wilds who lives under the government's radar. What will happen if they do the unthinkable and fall in love?
Delirium received starred reviews from Kirkus and School Library Journal, and was named a Best Book of the Year by USA Today, Kirkus, Amazon.com, YALSA, and the Chicago Public Library and was selected as one of NPR's Top 100 Best Ever Teen Novels.
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In the novel Delirium by Lauren Oliver, main character, Lena, grapples with the truth of her society in a world where love and emotions are forbidden. Though the book was well written, I found it to be disappointing as it was stereotypical, boring, and predictable.
Delirium was written very similarly to a book I had once thoroughly enjoyed, Uglies. It contains the basic love story, where the main character knows the relationship can never work in society, so the couple escapes to a better world. Similarly, the dystopian society, as messed up as it is, was basic in its rules and unoriginal. The lack of uniqueness in the story was displayed through the laziness of the author in developing the society, the laws were set and was quite obvious to the reader to be corrupted.
The story was boring because of the lack of suspense and twists. There was foreshadowing in the story, but conversely, it was very obvious. It is possible that this novel was too easy for me, as I found myself skipping over small parts that I found to be unnecessary. For a 400 page book, you expect the book to be well thought through with a ton of information to comprehend, however; the author included a lot of filler words it seemed. There were few plot twists, and when there were, they were often boring and expected. The main plot twist of the story, in reality, was not even related to the main plot of the story, confusing the reader further.
Delirium proved to be predictable as it followed almost the exact same plot as every other dystopian future novel I have read, almost ruining my love for the genre. I found as I was reading, that instead of reading quickly to figure out what would happen next, I was reading quickly in order to both finish the book, as well as keep myself somewhat interested in the story because of how monotone I found it to be.
In an alternate United States, love has been declared a dangerous disease, and the government forces everyone who reaches eighteen to have a procedure called the Cure. Living with her aunt, uncle, and cousins in Portland, Maine, Lena Haloway is very much looking forward to being cured and living a safe, predictable life. She watched love destroy her mother and isn't about to make the same mistakes.
But with ninety-five days left until her treatment, Lena meets enigmatic Alex, a boy from the Wilds who lives under the government's radar. What will happen if they do the unthinkable and fall in love?
Delirium received starred reviews from Kirkus and School Library Journal, and was named a Best Book of the Year by USA Today, Kirkus, Amazon.com, YALSA, and the Chicago Public Library and was selected as one of NPR's Top 100 Best Ever Teen Novels.
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Review:
In the novel Delirium by Lauren Oliver, main character, Lena, grapples with the truth of her society in a world where love and emotions are forbidden. Though the book was well written, I found it to be disappointing as it was stereotypical, boring, and predictable.
Delirium was written very similarly to a book I had once thoroughly enjoyed, Uglies. It contains the basic love story, where the main character knows the relationship can never work in society, so the couple escapes to a better world. Similarly, the dystopian society, as messed up as it is, was basic in its rules and unoriginal. The lack of uniqueness in the story was displayed through the laziness of the author in developing the society, the laws were set and was quite obvious to the reader to be corrupted.
The story was boring because of the lack of suspense and twists. There was foreshadowing in the story, but conversely, it was very obvious. It is possible that this novel was too easy for me, as I found myself skipping over small parts that I found to be unnecessary. For a 400 page book, you expect the book to be well thought through with a ton of information to comprehend, however; the author included a lot of filler words it seemed. There were few plot twists, and when there were, they were often boring and expected. The main plot twist of the story, in reality, was not even related to the main plot of the story, confusing the reader further.
Delirium proved to be predictable as it followed almost the exact same plot as every other dystopian future novel I have read, almost ruining my love for the genre. I found as I was reading, that instead of reading quickly to figure out what would happen next, I was reading quickly in order to both finish the book, as well as keep myself somewhat interested in the story because of how monotone I found it to be.
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