kattisch 's review for:

Delirium by Lauren Oliver
5.0

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It reminded me a lot of one of my favorite stories, "The Giver" by Lois Lowry, but with a forbidden romance added in to spice things up a bit. I enjoy novels that tackle the big questions like "why are we here?", or in this case "what would the world be like without love?". In this seemingly Utopian society, love is a disease (amor deliria nervosa) that needs to be cured. Oliver's use of uncommon similes and metaphors is refreshing. She shows a curiosity for the English language and for the small details in life, and does an exceptional job of translating it into poetry and prose.