Delirium--Lauren Oliver

Welcome to a country where love is a disease. You cannot talk, be seen with or, even touch an uncured person of the opposite gender. Well, how would you get married? Date? You don't. You get tested 1-10 in high school;the better score, the better match(husband) you'll get. They pick three people for you to choose from and you choose one of those people. And college? Well if you don't get into a college, you get married immediately out of high school, after undergoing a surgery that will make sure you don't get the disease. But there's something about this surgery.

You change.

And for Lena, she's all for getting a great match and settling down. She even counts the days! But then she falls for someone--someone who is over 18 who didn't get cured and ran off to the Wilds...

And Invalid.

But the days count down to her surgery and the closer she gets to Alex--the Invalid. Somehow she needs to cross the border to the Wilds so she and Alex can finally not have to look over their shoulders when they
touch, kiss, talk. Even smile at each other. They have it all planned out. 


Lena doesn't figure she'll be leaving anything besides her young, mute, cousin Grace and her best friend Hana. Her father died of cancer when she was young and her mother commited suicide, after trying to be cured three--almost four--times. They plan the day they'll leave, when, and how. They're so happy about the plan.

Until things start going wrong.

Author: Lauren Oliver
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A great read and I'd recommend it to anyone who can stand intense language occasionally. Alex, Lena, Hana, and all of the characters are very great. In my opinion, it was kind of a knockoff of the Uglies series. Also, it took a while for me to really get into it. Around fifty to one hundred pages is how long it took. But don't worry! You'll totally love it.

It's a total, make-you-cry-more-than-once and laugh-out-loud kind of book. I hope you will read this and also read her other books:
Pandemonium
Before I Fall
and eventually:
Requiem.

Thank guys and enjoy your summer!