Hana
Note: To avoid story 'spoilers', this novella should not be read before Delirium.
The summer before they're supposed to be cured of the ability to love, best friends Lena and Hana begin to drift apart. While Lena shies away from underground music and parties with boys, Hana jumps at her last chance to experience the forbidden. For her, the summer is full of wild music, dancing - and even her first kiss.
But on the surface, Hana must be a model of perfect behavior. She meets her approved match, Fred Hargrove, and glimpses the safe, comfortable life she'll have with him once they marry. As the date for her cure draws ever closer, Hana desperately misses Lena, wonders how it feels to truly be in love, and is simultaneously terrified of rebelling and of falling into line.
In this digital-format novella, readers will come to understand scenes from Delirium through Hana's perspective. Hana is a touching and revealing look at a life-changing and tumultuous summer.
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.