Delirium
Before scientists found the cure, people thought love was a good thing. They didn't understand that once love - the deliria - blooms in your blood, there is no escaping its hold. Things are different now. Scientists are able to eradicate love, and the government demands that all citizens receive the cure upon turning eighteen. Lena Holoway has always looked forward to the day when she'll be cured. A life without love is a life without pain: safe, measured, predictable, and happy.
But with ninety-five days left until her treatment, Lena does the unthinkable: She falls in love.
Kirkus Reviews Best Teen Books of the Year (2011)
About the Delirium Series
Books in series order
- 1.Delirium(2011)
- 2.Pandemonium(2012)
- 3.Requiem(2013)
- +Annabel(2012)
- +Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel and Raven(2013)
- +Hana(2012)
- +Raven(2013)
Reading age: 13+ years
This series should be read in order.
Lena lives in a world where love is considered a disease - the deliria - the source of all unhappiness and negative emotions, including anger, pain, jealously and hate. Scientists have found a cure for love, and the controlling government seeks to eradicate the deliria by forcing all citizens to be cured at age 18. But even those fully indoctrinated with the government's propaganda are in danger of catching the disease before they are cured, and Lena does the unthinkable and falls in love.
Seeing the society she's always believed in through new eyes, Lena is set on a dangerous course, both for her heart and her life.