Delirium - Lauren Oliver While aimlessly wandering around the local bookstore waiting for a friend to arrive I happened to pick up this book and I read the first couple of pages. From that moment onwards I was hooked and I just couldn't seem to put the book down until I had finished it. Predominantly, I read mostly adult fiction, but I have been astounded at how much great young adult fiction is available and accessible even to people well out of their teens. In my opinion, this is definitely a book that isn't limited to only the young adult market. Unusually for me, I read the first sentence before I had even read the synopsis on the ...  Read the complete review

Leno Holloway is looking forward to one day only, the day she'll be cured forever from Amor Deleria Nervosa...or love. Having identified 'Love' as a sickness many years ago and a procedure against the disease now mandatory at age Eighteen by order of the government, it's not like she'll have a choice. She yearns to be normal and banish the tarnished reputation left on her by her Mother, who eventually succumbed to the Deleria. After all, a life without love is a life without pain, it's safe and predictable. But just weeks before the procedure Lena's world is turned upside down. She falls in love. Lauren Oliver's Delirium was top of my highly anticipated reads ...  Read the complete review