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A review by mfjd
Delirium by Lauren Oliver
5.0
Wow. Where to start? So, I was a little apprehensive before reading this book. I was not quite sure about what to expect when I started reading Delirium, especially since it was the first dystopian novel I ever read.
I always have to get 'hooked' on a book before I get moved by a it. But did this book move me! When I read the description of this book on the back cover, I was a bit sceptical, I could not understand how anyone would ever believe that love was a disease. Not to mention to get 'cured' from it, but as soon as I opened up this book, I was amazed by the fact that I began considering whether it is possible that all misery in the world is caused by love.
Although the book is a bit predictable, I already knew how the book would finish before I started it, this did not bother me one bit. I was so curious to how Lauren Oliver would illustrate this world that I did not mind that the book was not perfect. Very few books are.
This book also frightend me a bit. The people who get cured are a nightmare, they have no 'deep' feelings for anyone. The fact that they meet their assigned partner before the procedure, might not even like them, and are not one bit bothered by sharing their entire lives with this person after the procedure, is scary. It just hurts considering that your parents do not love you, but only got you because it was in their life description.
And I think that that is one of the strong points of the book. Even months after reading the book, I still catch myself wondering how it would be to know that you will not feel the things you are feeling in that moment in a few weeks. To know that the person who stops your heart now will be nothing more than a vague acquaintance then.
Another thing I liked about the book were the little abstractions from the book of SHH, this gave me more insight in how people think and how the authorities get away with everything they do. It was funny to see how Lauren took little things of the real world and presented them in a way not very different from how we know things, but with a completely different, and contrary meaning.
However, it was nice to read that although people are frightened by love, it will still conquer all.
I was sad finishing this book, not only because I really wanted to know how the story continued, but also because it has been a while since I read a book that moved me to such great lengths and that haunts me even months later.
I absolutely cannot wait till the sequel comes out, and I am convinced (or actually, I really hope) it will be just as good, or even better than Delirium.
I always have to get 'hooked' on a book before I get moved by a it. But did this book move me! When I read the description of this book on the back cover, I was a bit sceptical, I could not understand how anyone would ever believe that love was a disease. Not to mention to get 'cured' from it, but as soon as I opened up this book, I was amazed by the fact that I began considering whether it is possible that all misery in the world is caused by love.
Although the book is a bit predictable, I already knew how the book would finish before I started it, this did not bother me one bit. I was so curious to how Lauren Oliver would illustrate this world that I did not mind that the book was not perfect. Very few books are.
This book also frightend me a bit. The people who get cured are a nightmare, they have no 'deep' feelings for anyone. The fact that they meet their assigned partner before the procedure, might not even like them, and are not one bit bothered by sharing their entire lives with this person after the procedure, is scary. It just hurts considering that your parents do not love you, but only got you because it was in their life description.
And I think that that is one of the strong points of the book. Even months after reading the book, I still catch myself wondering how it would be to know that you will not feel the things you are feeling in that moment in a few weeks. To know that the person who stops your heart now will be nothing more than a vague acquaintance then.
Another thing I liked about the book were the little abstractions from the book of SHH, this gave me more insight in how people think and how the authorities get away with everything they do. It was funny to see how Lauren took little things of the real world and presented them in a way not very different from how we know things, but with a completely different, and contrary meaning.
However, it was nice to read that although people are frightened by love, it will still conquer all.
I was sad finishing this book, not only because I really wanted to know how the story continued, but also because it has been a while since I read a book that moved me to such great lengths and that haunts me even months later.
I absolutely cannot wait till the sequel comes out, and I am convinced (or actually, I really hope) it will be just as good, or even better than Delirium.