![]() ![]() ![]() When she was very young, her mother committed suicide because she was too infected by amor deliria nervosa to be cured. Unlike Hana, however, Lena can’t wait for the procedure. Cliches aside, if you remove all violent emotion, you’ll have to remove the good with the bad. Hana, the best friend of protagonist Lena, tells her early on, “You know you can’t be happy unless you’re unhappy sometimes, right?” And it’s true. ![]() You will no longer feel depressed, but you will also never enjoy your hobbies with as much fervour as before. You will never been heartbroken, but you will also view your friends and children with cold logic (you’ll give your baby milk because he’s hungry and needs food to live, not because you can’t stand to see him cry). My sister, who also read this book, called it practically a lobotomy, and that’s what it is: the doctors surgically remove every last bit of passion. No more Eponine-style romances for me! Thing is, the procedure doesn’t just kill off romantic love. When I first heard the premise, my cynical brain immediately thought it was brilliant. In Lauren Oliver’s Delirium, love has been diagnosed as a disease, and everyone is required to undergo the cure when they turn eighteen. ![]()
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