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"Love, the deadliest of all deadly things: it kills you both when you have it and when you don't."

To be fair, I wasn't expecting much from this novel. It was written in 2011, when dystopian books were at the height of popularity, and I guarantee if I had read this when I was a young teen, I would have devoured it.
However, I am now a cynical 25 year old, and books like this don't affect me. YA has come a long way since this was released, and I just noticed a lot of flaws (for me anyway).

Lena lives in Portland, where a wall has been built around their borders, and Love is believed to be a disease. This deliria can be cured by a vaccine that every citizen receives when they are 18 years old.

As you expect, Lena meets a boy and suddenly everything she has ever believed or been made to believe is thrown into disarray. Maybe Love isn't such a bad thing, maybe the powers that be have been lying to them all this time.

I loved the concept. It was different, and interesting. However, Lena is supposed to be 17 - almost 18 and she comes across like a 14 year old. I know this may have something to do with her naivety and the way she was brought up, but I still found it difficult to accept. Also her relationship with Alex is THE definition of insta-love. Look it up in the dictionary and they will be there. There is no legitimate way that they could have fallen so quickly (again just in my view at least).

I noticed a lot of similarities with The Declaration but I preferred that book so much more. I probably will still read book 2 as I want to see where the storyline goes and how everything pans out. But overall, nothing mind blowing.

"Love, it will kill you and save you, both."


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This is my new plan with ordering library books - order 1 new release and then order 1 that has been on my TBR for years. So this is my chosen book that has been on my TBR since 2016 :)