Lena has grown up waiting for the day she would turn eighteen and get her “procedure” – a cure to the devastating disease amor deliria nervosa (more commonly known as love). She has grown up fearing the disease and its consequences – it drove her mother to suicide after all, didn’t it? But as her birthday draws closer, Lena begins to see the world as she knows it in a different way. This character and setting driven novel will appeal to fans of other dystopian fiction like Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies series and the cliff hanger ending will leave readers breathlessly awaiting the sequel, Pandemonium. –Erin J.