It turns out that there are rebels against the cure, and Lena gets caught up in a rebellion when she tries to escape the cure. The protagonist, Lena Haloway, is looking forward to a life without love because it is 'safe,' but then she meets a boy named Alex Sheathes who changes her entire life.

Living under a totalitarian regime that forbids. At the gym she was watching a news report about an epidemic, and the two ideas combined in her head to form the central concept of the Delirium trilogy. Delirium is a series of YA dystopian fantasy/romance novels and stories by American author Lauren Oliver. She had recently read a Gabriel Garcia Márquez essay where he said that all books were about either love or death. Delirium is the first novel in a trilogy. Lauren Oliver says that the inspiration for Delirium came to her one day at the gym. The story focuses on a young woman, Lena Haloway, who falls in love in a society where love is seen as a disease. Everyone is supposed to get the cure when they turn eighteen and then they are matched with a partner through an evaluation. So when offered a chance to explore the world past Want to Read Rate it: Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, 1) by Maggie Stiefvater 3.77 avg. It is set in a dystopian world where love is considered a disease called Amor Deliria Nervosa, but scientists have invented a cure for it. The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered - fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. The Delirium Trilogy is a YA fiction series by Lauren Oliver.

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