Review: Delirium by Lauren Oliver

From Goodreads: 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.

When love has a mandatory cure and is known to lead people to death when left uncured, there is nothing Lena wants more than to lead a normal life. Living in the US, surrounded by borders to protect it's inhabitants from the Invalids and Sympathizers that live in the Wilds, she is safe and can live a life of happiness after the cure with the husband chosen for her and the career she is appointed to. She has always followed the rules and trusted her elders that the cure is the only way to avoid the deliria because she was told that it had made her mother commit suicide. Lean is counting the days until she will be safe from the sickness that took her mother away--until the day she falls in love herself. Lena goes through significant changes throughout the novel and is as strong a heroine as I've ever seen. Once she falls victim to the deliria, she stands up against what she feels is wrong, even when it means breaking all the rules. Even when she knows that she is sick, she doesn't care because love is worth the worst kind of sickness. Lena discovers that she can finally see through the fog that everyone living within the borders lives with.

This dystopian story is beautifully written and will make you keep turning pages. Oliver is descriptive and makes you fall in love with Lena and cast, makes you hate the government and the cure, and makes you swoon over and over. I wanted to cry for Lena, I wanted her to take chances for love because she was finally happy. I will be very impatiently awaiting the next novel in this trilogy and would recommend it to anyone and everyone. This is definitely one of my favorite books EVER! Lauren Oliver has worked her way onto my list of favorite authors.