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A dystopia wherein the US has classified love as a disease and gives everyone a kind of lobotomy ('the cure') after graduation to remove it and protect the population from its dangerous and sometimes violent impulsivity and promote social stability. There is one brief mention of the procedure also eliminating 'unnaturalness' (homosexuality) and causing some to find the idea of parenthood distasteful since romance and sexuality aren't the only kinds of love 'cured', but that's not really expanded on in this volume. The protagonist, Lila, and her best friend are in their final few months before they get their procedure and choose a future spouse (from a list of approved matches), when her friend starts acting strangely and Lila slowly starts to discover that maybe the way their society works isn't as neat and tidy (and truthful) as she always assumed. Lila herself is more nervous than most in this society where anyone can be reported by anyone for exhibiting suspicious behaviour, because of the skeletons in her family closet (her mother's suicide due to a failure of her cure) that put her under closer scrutiny than the average person since childhood. She herself always looked forward to being cured so she could finally be like everyone else and stop feeling this fear.
Parental guidance report: there is some kissing, but no sex or heavy makeout scenes; this is not a case of 'teens discover glorious rebellion in a storm of passionate coitus', so you can relax about that.
It was a decent dystopian story, but I think it could have been stronger if the 'cure' was less heavily focused on love alone and gave more weight to other 'risks' like crime and violence (which is mentioned here and there, but usually attributed to infection by love). It would have been more realistic to me if the cure was promoted more heavily as a cure for violence and criminality (like many political groups emphasize tough-on-crime measures), with love as more of a side concern rather than the front and center main issue (more like 'love is this messy nuisance that happens to be a good indicator of the kind of emotional volatility that leads to crime and violence which is why we watch out for it, plus by the way isn't it nice you don't have to deal with the hassle of romance anymore thanks to our lovely sorta-eugenics-y matching system?'). Instead it was the other way around, only mentioning in passing that 'oh yeah, also crime is down'.
Parental guidance report: there is some kissing, but no sex or heavy makeout scenes; this is not a case of 'teens discover glorious rebellion in a storm of passionate coitus', so you can relax about that.
It was a decent dystopian story, but I think it could have been stronger if the 'cure' was less heavily focused on love alone and gave more weight to other 'risks' like crime and violence (which is mentioned here and there, but usually attributed to infection by love). It would have been more realistic to me if the cure was promoted more heavily as a cure for violence and criminality (like many political groups emphasize tough-on-crime measures), with love as more of a side concern rather than the front and center main issue (more like 'love is this messy nuisance that happens to be a good indicator of the kind of emotional volatility that leads to crime and violence which is why we watch out for it, plus by the way isn't it nice you don't have to deal with the hassle of romance anymore thanks to our lovely sorta-eugenics-y matching system?'). Instead it was the other way around, only mentioning in passing that 'oh yeah, also crime is down'.