I like to think of him as an alternate version of Kent from Before I Fall. I loved the latter so so much, but there wasn't enough of him in BIF, so I liked pretending Alex was actually Kent in spirit.
I'm deluded, I know. And like I felt with Lena, I didn't geniunely like Alex. He's great as far as heroes go, but a little too perfect. I would have continued like that for the rest of the series, I believe, had the ending not happened the way it did. But since it did happen that way, it made me view the guy as more than just some tasty fictional candy.
I know in my head that view spoiler [he can't actually be dead hide spoiler ] but my heart still cries over the possibility. Off to read Pandemonium now. Here's praying there won't be a love triangle and that view spoiler [Alex is alive! Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever.
They cannot take it. View all 3 comments. I had heard a lot of wonderful early buzz about Delirium. I also heard about the buckets of tears that resulted from reading said book. I manned up a little before marking this one as "reading now" on my Nook. I thought I was prepared, you guys. Delirium is one of those books that makes your eyes second guess what they're reading, because how can anyone write such beautiful, beautiful things?
It is chock full of phrases that you want to memorize and save for one of those momen I had heard a lot of wonderful early buzz about Delirium.
It is chock full of phrases that you want to memorize and save for one of those moments when a loved one is going through a hard time, then lay it on them and take full credit for it. I'd never do that, but it's tempting! This storyline was unsettling and tragic, with the aversion to love and the treatment of it as if it's a disease--amor deliria nervosa. I couldn't imagine a life without love, nor would I want to. But reading about it makes for an exhilarating experience.
Oliver's creation of this world where the United States will basically lay the smackdown on anyone who is in love. The word "despair" is prominent in my mind when thinking about the tone of Delirium. It was very, very sad. It took awhile for Lena to grow on me. I get it, she's just doing what she knows she's supposed to. She's following the rules and staying on the straight and narrow path to the final destination of having that lovin' feeling sucked out of her brain, thanks to The Cure "Love Song" may or may not have played in my head every time I read those words.
I fell in love with her voice once she started to see things for what they really were. And then there's Alex. Oh man. Alex reminded me a lot of Ewan McGregor's character in Moulin Rouge, going on about freedom, beauty, truth, and love in his dreamy fashion.
I was in quite a pickle once I met Alex. It was a constant struggle between savoring every single word that Oliver penned and flipping ahead to ANY page where Alex's name was present and devouring the deliciousness. I loved his strength and his outlook, and I loved Alex and Lena together. The dynamic of their relationship made my heart explode. I can't think of a situation where the lovers are MORE star-crossed than this.
See, I'd tell you to prepare yourself for this massive cliffhanger ending, but it's just not possible. This ending ruined me. I felt like sometime gave me a swift punch to the gut when I turned that last page. Lauren Oliver, you hurt my feelings. View all 24 comments. Oct 05, The Burning Rose Jess rated it it was amazing Shelves: dystopia , romance , young-adult. And Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare. Very interesting. Perhaps you find suffering beautiful?
Perhaps you enjoy violence? It was I never read a book by Lauren Oliver before. I absolutely had to. First of all, I must say- Lauren Oliver and I have the same mind.
Even if the book was boring to death, I guess I was enjoying it because Lauren's characters has the same perspective on the world just like me.
So I don't know if I'm biased or not, but I really enjoyed this book. I read many reviews about this book before I picked it up, and almost in all of them, were written things that are not so pleasant about Lena. So let's say that I started the book, expecting not to like her.
She was so She was insecure. She believed, like everyone else, to the lies they tell to the people about the "deliria". She loved herself, but she hated herself. She didn't always behaved properly. She didn't always managed to keep her mouth shut.
She was whiny but brave. She was weak but able to stand on her own. She knew how to love, but she also knew hate. It may sound superficial to you, but once he said his name was Alex, he almost took a little place in my heart. I didn't like him right away, of course. I never came across the name Alex in a book at the past, except once, and he was a shitty person.
Well, let's say that you would want a boyfriend like Alex. Anything else I want to say about him will be considered as a spoiler. I can continue to write about how much this book is amazing and about the genuine idea of it, but in any case I don't have too much time and I really want to move to the second book. I also decided to read the novellas, so Oh, and if you read the book, we can conclude that the end of the book blew your mind, right?
View all 14 comments. But he may also fly. Set in a dystopian Portland, Maine, the novel tells the story of Lena, 17, just before she receives a life-altering operation, that will forever take her feelings away. I know I'm late. Like, really late. So many people have already read this and given an overall very good rating.
While I love the idea and creativity behing the story, I had some issues reading this. At first, I had a very slow start. A seemingly naive and kind of boring main character, too many words and thoughts, not enough plot.
I would've been perfectly happy if the book was pages shorter. The characters weren't exceptional either, but luckily Lena had a huge character developement. She uncovered secrets, developed an opinion, discovered her courage. I also hope to see more of some side characters Anabel, Hana, Grace. Luckily, the plot picked up as well.
To sum it up, a very average novel. It did not leave me in awe, but I enjoyed it nevertheless. Find more of my books on Instagram It was written in , when dystopian books were at the height of popularity, and I guarantee if I had read this when I was a young teen, I would have devoured it. However, I am now a cynical 25 year old, and books like this don't affect me. YA has come a long way since this was released, and I just noticed a lot of flaws for me anyway.
Lena li "Love, the deadliest of all deadly things: it kills you both when you have it and when you don't. Lena lives in Portland, where a wall has been built around their borders, and Love is believed to be a disease. This deliria can be cured by a vaccine that every citizen receives when they are 18 years old. As you expect, Lena meets a boy and suddenly everything she has ever believed or been made to believe is thrown into disarray. Maybe Love isn't such a bad thing, maybe the powers that be have been lying to them all this time.
I loved the concept. It was different, and interesting. However, Lena is supposed to be 17 - almost 18 and she comes across like a 14 year old. I know this may have something to do with her naivety and the way she was brought up, but I still found it difficult to accept. Also her relationship with Alex is THE definition of insta-love.
Look it up in the dictionary and they will be there. There is no legitimate way that they could have fallen so quickly again just in my view at least. I noticed a lot of similarities with The Declaration but I preferred that book so much more. I probably will still read book 2 as I want to see where the storyline goes and how everything pans out.
But overall, nothing mind blowing. So this is my chosen book that has been on my TBR since View 2 comments. Shelves: young-adult-fiction , swapped-or-given-away , unfinished , unfinished , scb-challenge , love-story-romance , scifi-dystopian-apocalyptic , high-expectations.
A review - or better a hopefully short explanation - after reading pages, which in the case of "Delirium" means, I am still in the middle of the introductory chapters before the "real story" starts. I do not know what I had expected storywise, when I pre-ordered the book. There were two factors, that made me do it, though: I had been very impressed by the author's courageous debut Before I Fall and the emotions reading it exposed me to.
And - like almost every YA book lover out here - I Okay. And - like almost every YA book lover out here - I am on the lookout for great dystopian fiction. Since I have consumed several representatives of that species which simply weren't worth the time I concluded that one by an author whose earlier work I admired should be a safe choice.
Yes, although I did not have fixed expectations concerning the story or the setting, I did have certain anticipations concerning the havoc Ms Oliver would wreak in my mind. After turning a quarter of the pages I am still waiting for my heart to contract, for my mind to reel, for my conscience to have difficulties in taking sides. Research shows that the exaggerated, fond conversation parents have with their babies — all that positive grimacing and cooing and constant contact-keeping - is so very crucial.
Magdalena is one of the rare kids who was cuddled, comforted and loved in secret by her mom. Therefore, in my opinion, she should have more urges to have emotional outbursts than to painfully follow the rules.
But I am not sure. Maybe her story is realistic the way it is depicted. What is is not : Riveting or shocking or frightening like, for instance, the film Equilibrium , which really shows a controlled and altered society, the consequences of the cropped ability to feel.
I think even without the visuals Equilibrium as a book would have sent me into a turmoil a hundred times stronger than Delirium. It is also not as well explained, as skillfully multi-layered, and as intricately shown from an inside-angle as The Giver by Lois Lowry, although the latter has a lot less pages to make the situation stomach-wrenchingly uncomfortable and eerie to the reader.
That was the explanation for my taking the next exit and grabbing the next book on my pile. I advise the still undecided to read either The Giver , the Uglies or both and to watch Equilibrium. It is one of my best-loved dystopia series since I first read it.
All the feelings that overwhelmed me before came rushing back, enveloping me in an embrace that reminds me of the beauty of a night sky, captivating with the speckling of stars.
Lena Haloway grew up looking forward to the day that she will be cured. But everything changed when a ruckus, involving cows in wigs and dresses, occurred during her evaluation. She lifted her eyes and met his. Nothing was ever the same for Lena ever since. When I started rereading this, I was surprised by the fact that there was so much I have forgotten about its story.
It was as if my brain blotted out all the exciting details so I could fully enjoy it again. The truth is I have enjoyed it more this time. The world that Lauren Oliver built was a thought-provoking one. It made me appreciate more what we have now: love. She was able to write down a possible future if people started to be swallowed up by their own fears of pain and instability. It showed their nation the terrible effects of love and the nightmares that could happen if they ever indulged to it.
I honestly think that this system could happen to us. If people keep feeling disappointed, if others keep making them see themselves as failures, someone might just make this our new reality. My emotions became more intense as I understood more each of the characters and saw how each of them was fighting their own battles. I want to talk about the three that stood out the most for me due to their choices and perspective on the matters they were dealing with. Let me start with Lena. Lena, our protagonist exquisitely changed from who she was at the beginning of the book.
Her eyes and her heart opened up to the things she never saw before. She realized all the lies of her world that the government had founded on fear. I love that at first she was very hesitant to believe what the Invalids, resisters, and sympathizers were fighting for. She was very stubborn and would fight for what she knew in herself was right, for the things that the laws have instilled in them.
In the end, I found that she became a very strong character, which reminds me that I should add her to my list of female protagonists. It was one of the aspects of the story that gripped my heart the tightest. It was heartbreaking every time she reminisced their memories together when she was younger, most especially those when Rachel, her older sister, was still uncured.
There was a huge difference between her life then and the one she had after the tragedy that destroyed her family. His eyes are blazing with light, more light than all the lights in every city in the whole world, more light than we could ever invent if we had ten thousand billion years.
I admire him for being patient with Lena and for being very careful when it comes to their plans for the two of them. Both of their lives could be compromised, but Alex was never afraid as long as he could give Lena the love that he thinks she deserved.
For him, it was the only thing that mattered and nothing else. She was adventurous and rebellious, the popular girl who had everything, but still acted like she had nothing to lose. Lena cared so much for her. They were drifting apart at some points of the story, and then turning back to each other after a while. As Hana was coming closer to her deadline, counting down the days until their procedures, Lena was starting to feel boundless.
It felt like Hana, who was free at the beginning was slowly walking towards a cage while Lena was on her way out. The ending was very pleasing and there is no better way of executing it. It was action-packed and extremely dangerous.
Lena shed her old self and was reborn when she took that slim chance, paying the price for a new and better life. Her words are easily-flowing like stream or rushing water down the falls.
I could decorate my room with the beauty of her words. But I noticed in this installment the overuse of the words suck, sucking, sucked, and all the other forms of that word.
Even though she could have replaced them with other words, I still highly delighted in her work, for she painted the most stunning images in my mind, letting me see them in full color and detail. It was carefully done like she was metal tested through fire and turned to a sharp-edged sword.
Overall, I highly recommend this. You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist. And there are many of us out there, more than you think. People who refuse to stop believing.
People who refuse to come to earth. People who love in a world without walls, people who love into hate, into refusal, against hope, and without fear. View all 8 comments. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers.
To view it, click here. WOW balled my eyes out! I am so depressed! That was extremely intense and it didn't end at all like I expected. I need to get away from these depressing books for awhile. Love killed Lena's mom so she wants nothing to do with it. She can't wait to get the cure.
So of course right before her cure she falls in love. Alex was so sweet and amazing! I loved the time they spent together. The ending damn neared killed me! The idea that love is a disease was so unique. The way they describe it, had WOW balled my eyes out! The way they describe it, had you never felt it, you might truly believe it was something dangerous. People do crazy things when feelings are running high. Love can make you feel great and can also make you depressed.
The writing was so beautiful. I especially loved the way they explained without love you wouldn't even love your pets or children. That would be so sad. I think to feel the high you must feel the low. A book that will keep you thinking!
They cannot take it" "You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes" "Love: It will kill you and save you, both" "The most dangerous sicknesses are those that make us believe we are well" "It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come.
Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed. View all 18 comments. A highly skilled, kick-ass champion of a surgeon. Now, let's assume that Delirium is the patient. And if these statements are true, then the characters are the amoebas that are aggressively attacking the patient and the plot is the brain tumour that will bring it to its tragic end.
Because let's be honest, this book was a bad idea. It would be as if I woke up tomorrow and decided it was a terrific stroke of genius to wear my purple sombrero to the office. Yes I do have one I am willing to let this one slide, however. Because I'm a forgiving individual and I want Lauren Oliver to succeed and make embarrassing amounts of money.
I want this for her because I adored Before I Fall and I suspect she has a few more of the likes of those left in her back pocket before she generates any more of this garbage. Right Dr. Did it really have to end like that? Really good read but oh my I need a minute.
I really wanted to love this book. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't bad, but it just didn't add up to the hype I thought it would. Delirium is about a girl name Lena who lives in a future where love is considered a disease. At 18 everyone under goes surgery to remove the ability to love. However, a few months before her surgery and birthday, she meets Alex and falls in love.
Obviously, this complicates things. To be honest, it was difficult to place myself I really wanted to love this book. To be honest, it was difficult to place myself in Lena's world. It just seemed so If you are looking for something like The Hunger Games, this is is not it. Delirium focuses more on Lena and Alex's relationship than the actual world. Maybe that's why I felt it hard to believe. I don't know. I feel that the first half of the book was rather bland to me.
It didn't really start getting interesting until after the climax. And that is an awful lot of pages to keep me waiting. I really did enjoy the book tho. It was beautifully written, especially the prose in the beginning of each chapter. A life without love is a life without pain: safe, measured, predictable, and happy.
But then, with only ninety-five days left until her treatment, Lena does the unthinkable. Bethanay: I didn't understand why eradicating love was really necessary. There was no historical explanation as to why it had to be removed and as most emotions are linked to love it must have made most people who had love removed from the brain pretty boring! I really liked Grace Lena's little 'sister'. She may not have talked but she was quite interesting and had potential for character development.
Eventually I will probably read the trilogy, if only because I hate leaving things unfinished. Matthew: I couldn't finish this book. The whole idea of removing love from the brain I didn't 'get'! However I did like Lena as a character because she was scared of what was to come, which fuelled my imagination.
As the disease continues, it becomes critical, involving fantasies, pain in various body parts, violent thoughts and hallucinations, and finally in the last stage, the disease physically paralyzes and kills the victim. The realism of the story was phenomenal, and the fact that Lauren Oliver could transform this idea into a whole relevant riveting story was shocking. Oliver managed to write a phenomenal book that has grabbed many young readers from around the world and reeled them into an intense story line.
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