A review by bex_montgomery
Delirium by Lauren Oliver

5.0

The Short of It:

Lauren Oliver’s second novel is stunning. A high-concept dystopia, but through the lens of her quiet pacing and luscious prose, somehow less dark, but just as profound and disturbing. It’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, but entwined with and eclipsed by Sleeping Beauty and Romeo and Juliet. Oliver gives us remarkably true characters, a languid, feel-it-on-your-skin final summer of innocence wrapped in a bewitchingly uncomplicated plot. More than that, she gives us every inch the experience of falling in love. This is the book you won’t want to put down, but it’s also the one you’ll find yourself slowing and stalling to try to draw the experience out and avoid the inevitable “The End”.

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