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Delirium (Delirium, #1)
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The premise of Delirium seems very forced, as if author Lauren Oliver was trying so hard, so very hard, to write a unique dystopian novel. This was published hot on the heels of The Hunger Games's massive success, like so many young-adult dystopians. Numerous authors began publishing in this sub-genre obviously desperate to capture the same lightning in a bottle Collins did.
Like The Hunger Games, Delirium's premise is unique. In this world, love is a disease against which citizens are inoculated when they reach age 18. In an interview, Oliver said she conceived of the premise while exercising at the gym. She should have left it behind with the sweaty gym equipment and tried again, because she just isn’t a talented writer. In addition to a nonsense premise, her characters are one-dimensional, with two teens involved in a sickly sweet romance that's too emotionally mature to ring true.
This gets two stars only because it’s a page-turner. I wanted to see how, exactly, Oliver managed to make such a forced, silly concept work. Unfortunately, she didn't.
The premise of Delirium seems very forced, as if author Lauren Oliver was trying so hard, so very hard, to write a unique dystopian novel. This was published hot on the heels of The Hunger Games's massive success, like so many young-adult dystopians. Numerous authors began publishing in this sub-genre obviously desperate to capture the same lightning in a bottle Collins did.
Like The Hunger Games, Delirium's premise is unique. In this world, love is a disease against which citizens are inoculated when they reach age 18. In an interview, Oliver said she conceived of the premise while exercising at the gym. She should have left it behind with the sweaty gym equipment and tried again, because she just isn’t a talented writer. In addition to a nonsense premise, her characters are one-dimensional, with two teens involved in a sickly sweet romance that's too emotionally mature to ring true.
This gets two stars only because it’s a page-turner. I wanted to see how, exactly, Oliver managed to make such a forced, silly concept work. Unfortunately, she didn't.
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Reading Progress
March 17, 2011
– Shelved
August 11, 2012
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Started Reading
August 12, 2012
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11.34%
"Much to my surprise, so far I am finding this book annoying. Oliver's dystopian society is not as interesting or makes as much sense as, say, Suzanne Collins's does in The Hunger Games trilogy, and Oliver's writing is weak, with cliched descriptions ("bright gray eyes") and simplistic sentence construction. Young adult novels can be more sophisticated than this."
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50
August 19, 2012
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Finished Reading
November 24, 2014
– Shelved as:
she-wrote-it
February 24, 2017
– Shelved as:
dystopian
February 24, 2017
– Shelved as:
ho-hum
