Delirium Delirium #1

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this book! The writing style is amazing. The characters are just speechlessly great. I'm shaking. Lauren Oliver became one of my favourite authors real-quick!

**Full, Updated REVIEW** I love you. Remember. They cannot take it. I recently reread a series that had been a favorite of mine in high school, just so I could finally read the third book. That series was the Chemical Garden series by Lauren DeStefano. And I really didn’t like it anymore. See, since high school, my reading tastes have changed. I’ve become more critical. I reread this book, am rereading this series, for the same reason I reread Chemical Garden. But for this one, instead of liking it less with my new reading tastes, I’m liking it BETTER. REVIEW: There’s not much action in this book. This is not an action-based book. It’s concept-based, and the concept is AMAZING. A world where love is a bad thing, a disease, illegal. A large chnk of this book is slow and hard to get into it’s setting up the world and, more importantly, the Main Character mindset. She is COMPLETELY behind this system. She agrees with it, and she can’t wait to be ‘cured’. Predictably enough, she meets boy. And, in this book, I loved this boy. (view spoiler)[Not so much in Pandemonium, but we don’t need to talk about that here. (hide spoiler)] Now, there was an element of instalove here, but lets consider the circumstances. Her whole life, Lena has been told that love is BAD, FORBIDDEN. Her whole life, the only males she has been aloud to have contact with are those she’s RELATED to (her uncle). When she meets boy, this is the VERY FIRST TIME she HAS EVER met a boy. EVER. Her hormones are out of control, get it? Also, since there was a reason given as to why Alex was pursuing her, that made it okay. Cuz he had a reason and he was the one pushing the relationship. Also, keep in mind that Lena TRIED TO RESIST the love several times, which, I think, served sort of like speed bumps for the instalove. So, you know what? I’m cool with it. There aren’t a great deal of characters in this book, at least not characters that are important. For me, there was only Lena, Alex, and Hana. Now, JUST READING THIS BOOK, I love all three of those characters. Future installments have colored my interpretations of Hana and Alex, but within in the confines of this book, both the characters are likable, and their relationships with Lena are profound. I espcialyy loved the dynamic between Lena and Hana. It’s so rare, in YA, to see a best fried relationship in which the main character keeps the best friend IN THE LOOP. So often, the MC will have a best friend, and then she meets whomever pulls her into the world of the paranormal or whatever, and DOESN’T tell the Best Friend, and before you know it, the best friend doesn’t exist because the best friend doesn’t know anything, therefore the MC can’t talk to the best friend. (view spoiler)[although, there are some drawback to keeping the best friend in the loop. And yes, I am looking at Hana. (hide spoiler)] Also, the writing in this book was positively LOVELY. So descriptive and beautiful, In a different way then the writing in the Chemical Garden series is lovely, but also better than the writing from Chemical Garden, because in this case, the writing ENHANCES the story rather than being the only tolerable thing about it. **Old Review** LOVED this book. It was absolutely AWESOME. The premise of the story is not only interesting and compelling, but the characters are amazing and the plot... okay, the plot is slightly predictable, considering the premise of the story, but still! At least there's only one guy, not two!(Twilight, Hunger Games, gag) Suffice to say, one of the BEST the books I've read so far this year.

** spoiler alert ** It was beautiful. It reminded me of The Giver by Lois Lowry. The whole perfect community and not being able to choose for yourself and not being allowed to feel and experience real love. I'm a sucker for these kinds of books/stories/novels. I was kind of disappointed though that it didn't have a happy ending. That's why I couldn't wait to get my hands on Pandemonium. I really hope that Lena will still be able to find Alex. I'm really excited to read it and I'm hoping that it will be as good as or even better than Delirium.

As soon as I picked up this book, I couldn't wait to throw myself into it! (Ha, that sounds funny.) It was on my TBR pile for a while though because I had so many awesome books to read, but when I finally got around to it, I dove right in. And kind of just...stayed there. This book took me an embarrassingly long amount of time to finish. I just COULDN'T get into it, for the life of me. And that made me so sad! It had SUCH a cool idea! And I didn't mind the characters! I thought Lena was quite likable, and I looooooved Alex (the love interest. Give me a good love interest, and I'm sold). I just didn't find it that intriguing, I guess. I still want to read the second book, for sure, but I was just a tad disappointed. I think I just felt there was too much un-needed depth, and I got bored. In the end, I really liked this book. It just didn't live up to it's high expectations.

the unbreakable bond between woman and her favorite book in middle school

jeez. this book entirely absorbed me! i loved lena & alex, but hana was defo my fav! this book was one hell of a ride, i felt so involved with the plot, that towards the second half of the book i couldn’t seem to put it down. the first half was a lot about lena & family, friendship with hana etc, it really helped with understanding the characters, and made the character development so much more exciting, however it definitely wasn’t as gripping as the second half of the book! i couldn’t put it down! the end thooo ahhhh 🫣

Awesome book about the future, the USA govt. is completely totalitarian, history rewritten, information censored, education and indoctrination. All the cities walled off with electric barbed wire fences, guards and patrols everywhere. Its all for one thing: Love. or amor deliria nervosa. When you turn 18, you get the procedure done that cures you. The govt. pairs you up with someone and tells you how many children to have, what job to have. And the rest of life goes by in a fog. Lena believes it all, the whole system. But then something happens the summer before her 18th birthday that changes her mind completely. Awesome read, loved this book! <3

saw this as a dystopian. love, indeed, does have some symptoms similar to sickness

4.5/5. i miss dystopian movies so much. i think i’d be okay with this one being made into one. at first, lena was getting on my nerves but around half way, she grew on me. and alex, ahhh <3. i swear everything better work itself out in the next book.

It got a lot better near the end. In a few words, it's a very cliché book, full of cliché lines. It has a good idea, but, in my opinion, it was not properly explored. I really like that for a change you can have love between the main couple and love between two best friends. Love comes in a lot of forms, in our family, friends and boyfriend (in this case), and it bothers me so much how a lot of YA books chooses to focus on only one of these. Still, I think Alex is a lame character. We actually know nothing about him. I couldn't fall in love with him the way Lena did. Is he a funny guy or a serious one? Is he the overprotective type? Actually, is he even romantic? I think he is because of that scene with poetry, but apart from that he doesn't say much. Their scenes together never had a lot of talk, it was mostly Lena describing what happened. Anyway, I'm not even sure if I truly liked this book, to be honest.

** spoiler alert ** I love this book so much. If you know me at all, then you know how obsessed I am with the dystopian genre by and large. First off the concept of this dystopian is basically love is illegal and any "hysterical" feelings/ any feelings really. And this idea fascinates me. This first book did everything it could to suck me in and it achieved it big time. It's one of those books capable of making you feel everything the main character is feeling. In the beginning I felt nothing but cold and stoic. As I turned the last page I could feel my own heart wanting to burst out of my chest with the injustice of it all. I can't wait to get started on part 2!!

Sinceramente, es entretenido y me lo terminé en casi una semana. Es rápido y ameno de leer. No obstante, la premisa del "amor imposible" y "el amor prohibido", yo siendo alguien de la comunidad LGBT pues... Como que no es algo nuevo y me suena como a fantasías de personas hetero que luego no han tenido en cuenta todas las opciones. Esto es solo un pequeño detalle, la verdad, y no descartaría el seguir leyendo la saga a pesar de que lo leí hace muchos años.

I have no words to describe how much I love this book. It is brilliantly written, with such lovely delicious moments I was jumping for joy and I couldn't stop grinning - but there were also such heartbreaking terrifying moments I felt like my whole world had come crashing down. Reading this novel was like riding a crazy emotional rollercoaster and I loved every second of it. I could read this a million times and never get bored! I would recommend this to ANYONE because it is perfect.

The book started okay and was really intresting but all the guey love talk got tiring.. I actually skipped to the last chapter..

4.5 stars. Full review to come!

DNF. I alawys make myself finish a book, it just bothers me if I don't know how it ends. I couldn't make myself finish this one. I don't know why I disliked it so much but it just didn't do it for me. The writing was fine, the story just wasn't for me. There was so much hype around this book that maybe I had my expectations set too high.

I read this book back in 2013 and loved it. I loved it for the solely reason that Lena found Love and happiness because i think she deserved it! After all, with so much control and loss in her life she needed happiness. & Now that this being my 2nd time reading this book in April 2022, all I got to say is that I loved it even more lol. I personally love romance but the unexpected kind (like where have you been my whole life?) and this one... It just has so much content: drama, suspension, heartbreak, loss, sadness, betrayal , and more importantly love! Just what my heart needs. I will have to say: this plot is interesting. In this book, love is a desease and i couldnt imagine living in Lenas world because I honestly think love is what makes the actual world move. & I know, Obviousely Its a dystopian genre where it's kind of like an alternative world of how we actually live and plus its fiction..but let me just say, I'm grateful for the liberty and freedom of choice i have! Not everybody has it the same. Anyways, While reading this book, i thought "wow this is kind of like how we live right now with covid". it has so many similarities. One, the way that so many people believe in this said virus and So many people dont. 2. having those gullible believers get scared so easily, so government has to push a cure and making the non believers the resisters toward the government. It's just interesting to think about this. But anyways , I give this book a 10 out of 10 stars! Simply because it kept me entertained the first time I read it and this time too.

Love the author's writing and the world but sometimes it feel like the book just dragged on which made me not want to continually read it like I had to periodically stop. Slow build.

Loved it! Lauren has great writing and doesnt make things go to fast.

Siempre creí que los sentimientos solo servían para complicar la vida de los seres humanos. Pero, parece que he estado equivocada todo el tiempo. Me ha gustado muchísimo la idea de la autora, me ha gustado su prosa, me ha gustado el hecho de que pude sentir lo que cada personaje estaba sintiendo. Es una historia que casi sin querer te deja reflexionar; sobre el amor, sobre la sociedad, sobre los paradigmas que tenemos arraigados. Sólo puedo decir dos cosas: 1- No sé por qué demoré tanto en darle una oportunidad. 2- Tengo que continuar ya mismo con el siguiente.

** spoiler alert ** He who leaps for the sky may fall, it’s true. But he may also fly. Forse non proprio quattro stelline piene, ma comunque un libro leggero e piacevole da leggere. Non è proprio come me lo ero aspettato, sinceramente mi aspettavo più azione e meno storia d'amore. Mi sarebbe anche sicuramente piaciuto di più se la scrittrice ci avesse mostrato di più di questo mondo in cui vivono Lena e Alex, ma invece si è focalizzata quasi interamente sulla loro storia d'amore. Posso sperare che nel seguito si saprà qualcosa di più, perché visto come finisce il libro un seguito ci sarà senza dubbio bisogna solo capire quando uscirà. But I have a secret. You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist. I love you. Remember. They cannot take it.

ازاي تقعد تقرأ في رواية ٤٠٠ صفحة عشان نهاية مقرفة زي ديه؟ يا جماعة لو مش قد النهايات العدلة متكتبوش روايات تاني. 😤

god the CHOKEHOLD this series had on me when I was 13.

So good..I really wish I could jump into the next book,because this is kinda a cliffchanger!!!D: and :D all at the same time!