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This was a sort of unique take on the dsytopian society. I was intrigued by the idea of love as the driving force of chaos and world problems, but ultimately the concept sort of fell flat for me. I still read through the book quickly and the ending wasn't predictable (which I appreciated). But I don't feel any burning desire to read the next book in the trilogy immediately. I had already checked it out from the library thinking I'd want to continue through the series right away, but as it is I'm
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Another winner by Lauren Oliver! A familiar trope---society has figured out how to perfect people, this time scientifically, and how to keep people from contracting the contagion which ruined the previous ages: Delirium. At age 18, young people have a procedure that will cure them and they are promised a lifetime of happiness and safety from the dreaded disease they have heard about in their childhood storybooks, their classrooms and their churches.
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Even though they're YA fiction, and (at least by my age) I'm an adult, I read them anyway: the Giver, Hunger Games, Divergent, and Maze Runner series. I enjoyed them, so I thought I'd try this one. The concept is interesting - a society in which 18-year-olds undergo a "procedure" to protect them against falling in love - but I didn't like the storytelling as well as the others. Still, I might move on to the second book in the series to see what happens.
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To my mind a weaker take on Hillary Jordan's When She Woke, in which love is "cured".
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