This weekend I've had a kind of emotional reboot. Yesterday, my best friend Helen kidnapped me from my imprisonment. Being unemployed and without a vehicle has seriously put a damper on my mood, and I was in much need of a day out.
Though the term "day out" may be a little misleading. She picked me up and we went to Beans and Brews for about 5 hours to write. Both of us at a booth just writing, researching, talking about characters. Since NaNoWriMo, I hadn't been to a coffee shop to write. I had forgotten how much loved writing in coffee shops. Especially Beans and Brews (they have the best chai tea I've ever had). It was a great reboot for my system.
Today I decided to continue the emotional reboot by doing nothing today but reading. I had been slowly working through reading Lauren Oliver's Delirium for the past few weeks, and had decided I was just going to sit down and finish it. My soul sisters Angel and Helen have sung praises about it and I wanted to give it a try.
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 governments 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.
Confession time: I generally don't like dystopian novels. I usually stay in my (relatively) happy contemporary YA fiction world because I have a really hard time getting into the dystopian theme and usually end up giving up half way through. They just don't appeal to me as much as other books do. That being said, I'm really glad I gave this one a chance.
I liked that the disease that everyone is afraid of being infected by is (basically) love. They break it down in a very clinical manner that makes the disease, "amor deliria nervosa," seem equally dangerous and thrilling.
Once Alex was introduced, his story with Lena was pretty predictable... that is, up until the ending. The ending, was pure brilliance. It surprised me to the point that I just stared at the last page for a good few minutes before closing the book.
Delirium is the first book in the trilogy, and I'm looking forward to see what the rest of this story has to offer.
Next up....
The Hourglass Door by Lisa Mangum
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