Delirium- Review

     I took a small break from Pride and Prejudice, and I started reading a fictional book Delirium by the talented author Lauren Oliver. Delirium talks about a city where love is considered a disease!

      Citizens of Portland are expected to have procedures by the age of eighteen to cure them from the disease. The procedure prevents the disease from reaching your soul, but with the disease goes your empathy. Nevertheless of the consequences the city's government put for those who 'catch' the disease, a girl called Lena, who previously counts the days till her procedure, falls in love with Alex and decides to runaway with him to the 'Wilds'.

     The pace of events in Delirium is a smooth one with little action; it's just the ending of the book that contains enough dosage of events to keep you interested in reading the second book of the trilogy.

        I, personally, could hardly relate to Lena, and have failed to sense any kind of emotional connection between me and any of the characters in the book. I did not envision the characters in the book as more than puppets; each character seemed emotionally detached from Lena, and even though the story is told from Lena's point of view, it seemed that she was creating emotion rather than telling the reader about her actual mundane thoughts.

     Lauren Oliver does have a unique writing style, but that was not good enough to keep me interested in reading the remaining two books.