I just finished Lauren Oliver's Delerium, and I loved it! I stayed up way too late reading, but what can you do? I really do need to cut it out, though. I’m staying up later and waking up later, and that’s no good for my schedule. I think the husband’s going to stage an intervention soon. Anyway, Lauren Oliver writes beautifully. The story involves a future America where love is seen as a disease and everyone submits to a procedure when they turn 18 that makes all fuzzy-type feelings go away forever. I was very glad to hear that this will be a trilogy, because I can’t imagine a book ending the way this one did and leaving it at that.
Favorite passage:
“Love, the deadliest of all deadly things: It kills you both when you have it and when you don’t.
But that isn’t it exactly.
The condemner and the condemned. The executioner; the blade; the last-minute reprieve; the gasping breath and the rolling sky above you and the thank you, thank you, thank you, God.
Love: It will kill you and save you, both.”
Good news: She has also written a book for middle school-aged children, titled Liesl and Po! AND you can enter a contest on her blog to win a ARC! Check it out: http://laurenoliverbooks.blogspot.com/2011/04/introducingliesl-po.html?showComment=1308858672705#c2027724031602115904
