Review - Delirium - Lauren Oliver

Review - Lauren Oliver - Delirium

Released : 1st February 2011
Started : 3rd January 2010
Finished : 6th January 2010
Plot : 5/5
Cover : 5/5
Page Turner : 4.5/5
Characters : 5/5
Ending : 5/5
Over-all Rating - 

The Blurb -

Before scientists found the cure, people thought love was a good thing. They didn’t understand that once love - the deliria - blooms in your blood, there is no escaping its hold. Things are different now. Scientists are able to eradicate love, and the governments demands that all citizens receive the cure upon turning eighteen. Lena Holoway has always looked forward to the day when she’ll be cured. A life without love is a life without pain: safe, measured, predictable, and happy.
But with ninety-five days left until her treatment, Lena does the unthinkable: She falls in love.

My Review -
I already know this is going to be in my top 10 reads of 2011. You know when you love a book, its a 5 star rating .. but there is always that list of extra special books which really made you stop and think 'Wow', immediately  make an impact on you and the way you think. You find yourself taking a few minutes to get back into the real world after putting the book down, thinking of the book randomly and starting to feel the things the characters are.. 
This book did all of that.
The concept behind this book is scary and very sad, after reading the blurb l wondered how it would be written and the personality of the characters. I did enjoy Lauren's 'Before l fall' but l have to say this book was on another level, the writing was so much better and everything was much more believable. 
Everything was perfect and written so well in a powerful way, the quotes are amazing and really make you think! Lena is such an innocent and angelic character l straight away loved her. I actually felt very lucky to see into her world and see how she grows and changes in this book, l felt like a proud best friend! Hana her best friend is also a great character in the book, l loved the friendship between them, how they have known each other for a very long time and how both girls just follow the path which the government set out for them. I feel this makes the book real, l mean if your born into that world you don't question it if you know the results if you do question society are things such as death? 
I don't really want to spoil it by saying who she does the 'unthinkable' with but l also really loved this character. They all bring something special to the book and their relationships. 
The ending was a shock to me and this is what totally made this book that bit more special than most other 5 star rating books. l found myself frustrated the book had ended (in a good way) it was a total shock how it ended and l have NO idea how its all going to turn out in the next book. I will be thinking about this book for weeks to come!
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Quotes (These will be added when reading off my kindle)
'You know you can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes, right?'
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'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 it curl back up in that moment before things changed.'
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'One of the strangest things about life is that it will chug on, blind and oblivious even as your private world - your little carved out sphere - is twisting and morphing, even breaking apart. One day you have parents; the next day you're an orphan. One day you have a place and a path. The next day you're lost in the a wilderness. And still the sun rises and clouds mass and drift and people shop for grocies and toilets flush and blinds go up and down. That's when you realise that most of it- life, the relentless mechanism of existing - isn't about you.'


Thank you Netgalley and HarperTeen
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Boy's Don't Cry - Malorie Blackman
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Thanks for all the comments on previous posts, its 12.30am in UK so l will answer you all tomorrow!