Title: Delirium
Author: Lauren Oliver
Website: http://www.laurenoliverbooks.com/delirium.php
Synopsis: (from www.laurenoliverbooks.com) 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 government 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.
Why it seems cool: It’s Brave New World, Gattaca & Children of Men rolled into one.
My favorite Nook “free preview” quote: The character imagines her future husband’s “hands are cool and dry, and my heart is beating steadily in my chest—and in my dream I know it will always beat out that same rhythm, not skip or jump or swirl or go faster, just womp, womp, womp, until I’m dead. Safe, and free from pain.”
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