But wouldn’t you know it, Lena meets a boy, and as she starts showing signs of love, Lena realizes she might not accept that love is a disease after all, and she worries the supposed cure may ruin her completely.Īs the disease of love was described in the first chapter of the book I thought, “Huh, they’re actually kind of right.” While I don’t think love is a disease, I definitely agree that love makes people do some crazy bidness. Lena can’t wait, since she worries she’ll catch this disease just like her mother, and all she’s ever wanted is to escape this ailment that could run in her blood. Love has been classified as a disease, one that causes people to act rashly and experience dangerous levels of emotions ranging from unstoppable despair to delusional euphoria. The present she’ll receive is an operation that cures the brain and body from ever feeling love.

“Delirium” follows Lena as she heads into the months just before her eighteenth birthday. So I was curious to see how people actually could get along without these things. Not just strongly like, but capital L-O-V-E, LOVE! So when I dove into Lauren Oliver’s “Delirium,” about a dystopian world where love has been scientifically cured, I was already heartbroken that nobody could have a love for the trivial yet amazing things in life you just can’t live without.

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