Reviews
I'm still stunned over the ending. If you have read Before I fall you already know about Lauren Oliver's brilliancy, if you have not then you should read it immediately. From the start I knew Delirium would be just as good or better than Before I fall. It turned out better. Imagine a world without love, a world were even the slightest filial show of affection is frown upon. Thats' where Lena lives, a world full of cold people who see Love, or Amor Deliria Nervosa, as a disease. And even if it seems unbelievable for such a place, Lauren Oliver pulls it off. You truly believe people don't love, that they see it as a disease. At first, I saw Lena a little cowardly, but then as the story goes by we understand, she is terrified of the disease for it was the death of her mom who never stopped loving Lena's father. I loved Lena, she is the kind of character you sympathize from the start and you just like her more and more as the book goes by and who by the end you just adore. Delirium is full of sentiments, good ones and bad ones, but as the book itself portrays we can't enjoy the good stuff if you don't bear the bad stuff. Overall, I suffered a strong case of Amor Deliria Nervosa toward this book and EVERYONE should read it because as sweet and amazing as it is, it can also teach you a lot, like don't trust regulators! Anyway, can someone give me the sequel? I need to read it pronto.
Delirium is so wonderfully and beautiful written. I love this sort of dark feeling that creeps up on me when I read it. I’m put into a very depressing atmosphere once I start reading. Though I don’t mind, I even like it, I enjoy the feeling. It’s not a feeling you get from a lot of books. It’s beautifully dark, and haunting and it feels like you’re reading someone else secrets. Like it’s forbidden to know, but you just have to keep reading. A certain darkness, the clandestine weaved into the words, like it should only be read in whispers. If you don’t feel this feeling, this slight wickedness, then the book is yet another book waiting to be stored away and never to be read again, just another story book. However, if you do feel it, then it’s wonderful, because you’re reading it to it’s fullest, to the best it can be. I recommend this to all book lovers, especially to those that enjoy dystopia stories.
★★★★★ // a very interesting dystopia, and a promising start to a trilogy.
** spoiler alert ** At first i didn't want to read this book because i'm not very into sc-fi books. About a third way into the book i started to like it. It's about a girl named Lena who lives in the future United States of America. In this US you get cured of love at 18. They think love is the reason you get sick. So love, books, music, and people under 18 of different sexes hanging out are banned. At first Lena is like any other 17 almost 18 year old, counting down the days until she gets cured. But then she mets Alex. She sees him first at her evaluations. At the evaluation you get asked questions about yourself. About midway through hers cows dressed as people stampede into the room. When she looks up at the observation deck she sees Alex laughing. Later on she sees him again but she finds out he works as a guard. After they hang out a bit she finds out he's really an invalid. Invalids are the people who still believe in love and are against the cure(of course there are still people who believe in it). These people live in the wilds. All the places there aren't cities or walls. About two weeks before Lena's procedure is scheduled Alex and Lena plan to ran away together and live in the wilds(like a few people have done.) Of course it doesn't work out as planned. They get caught at their meeting place. Alex gets away but Lena gets captured and her procedure gets planned for the next day(risky but what they do when the think you have contracted delia-love.) Alex rescues her but once they get to the border separating Portland and the wilds(a tall fence charged with electricity.) They run their motorcycle into it to short it out long enough to climb it. Alex tells Lena he'll be right behind her. But once Lena is over she looks back and sees Alex mouthing "run" before he gets tackled but a bunch of guards and police. That's where the book ends. I'm pretty sure she's making another. I liked the book. Yeah that's about it.
OMG!!! I LOVED THIS BOOK SO MUCH AND I CANNOT EXPRESS HOW IN LOVE I AM WITH ALEX!! (FOR THOSE OF YOU WHOM I PERSONALLY KNOW, I THOUGHT I WOULD CLAIM HIM OFFICIALLY RIGHT NOW SO NOBODY PULLS A HUNGER GAMES AND TRIES TO STEAL HIM FROM ME!! Don't deny it, you all tried to steal Peeta. Well guess what, you can have him, BUT ALEX. IS. MINE. I TOTALLY recommend this book to fans of the Hunger Games and Divergent. I could honestly say, this book has made my Top 5! It takes a lot for that, so you all know, if I rave about it like this it's worth reading. Again, just so we're clear: I LOVE ALEX FIRST SO HE'S MINE!!!! Forget my rating at the top, five stars isn't enough!
Eine dystopische Romanze, mehr ist Band 1 einfach nicht. Es gibt zwar eine Beschreibung der aktuellen Gesellschaft, aber keine Hintergründe, warum man Liebe zur Krankheit erklärt hat, warum es eine Grenze um die Stadt herum gibt,... es fehlen zu viele Hintergrundinformationen.
** spoiler alert ** Dejé una reseña en mi blog, en español: http://natified.com/2015/01/21/libros... This is long and a bit angry, and a bit spoilery. A bit. Delirium is a YA novel, set in the future. The government has decided that love is a disease, so every citizen must get a cure by the time they turn 18. After that, they are assigned a partner they marry and have children with and are happy forever because cured, without love, there is no jealousy or fights or divorces or envy. The story follows Lena, a girl about to turn 18. We see through her eyes how this world works but only in the surface because the plot is centered in Lena and she doesn't really see much, she knows of things, she hears things, she is told things. My Nº1 problem with this book is the protagonist. Lena is almost 18 but she acts 13. I tried to justify her behaviour by thinking it's the environment, she's grown up so protected with no one to hold her; but she is so insecure, she questions everything she says/thinks/does and it's just too teen spirit for me. At one point I rolled my eyes so hard... at this point really: "I wish it would stop. I want it to go on forever”. Kill me. And there's a lot of that. She sees things that are forbidden, treats everybody of being irresponsible, she gets mad, then scared, something inside her says "mmm, but this is not such a bad thing after all", sneaks out of her house and does the thing anyway. She's very quick to misjudge other people and, at the same time, is so insecure, she's always worried people will think she's the worst person ever just by saying hello to someone on the street. It sounded like a fun premise to read but I got bored of following this girl around. She made me wonder why people would want to be her friend or fall for her? I just wanted to punch her.
