The second novel in the trilogy, Pandemonium, was released on February 28, 2012. Two books set between the first and second books, Hana and Annabel, were released on February 28 and Decemrespectively. Sequels ĭelirium is the first installment in the Delirium trilogy. At the gym, she was watching a news report about a pandemic, and the two ideas combined in her head to form the central concept of the Delirium books. Since her first book, Before I Fall, was about death, she wanted to write a book about love. She had recently read a Gabriel Garcia Márquez essay that stated all books were about either love or death. Lauren Oliver has said that the inspiration for Delirium came to her one day at the gym. She keeps running into the Wilds, where she joins the resistance, leaving Alex to presumably die. Alex tells Lena to not look back and that he will be right there with her, but then she does and realizes that he never moved. While Lena and Alex try to escape to the Wilds, the government finds them. Lena now believes that her entire childhood was a lie and wants to leave the city and go to the Wilds. When they find her mother's room, they find it empty, with a life-size hole in the wall where the letter 'O' is in the word LOVE. He brings her to the Crypts, where people who do not obey the rules stay, to show her that her mother is still alive. When she mentions her "dead" mother and how she always wore a specific necklace, he knew who she is.Īlex wants to show Lena that her mother is actually alive. While trying to gain Lena's trust and love, Alex finds out about her past life and family. He offers Lena the means of escape from the procedure that will destroy her ability to love. He was born in the Wilds outside the city and pretends to be cured to live undetected in the city and to partake in the resistance. However, only months before her scheduled procedure, Lena falls in love with an Invalid (a person who has not taken the Cure and lives in the Wilds), Alex. Conversely, Hana is rebellious, goes to underground parties after curfew, and listens to music that is banned by the DFA. Lena is obedient, stays home after curfew, and listens to music that is approved by the DFA. Lena's best friend, Hana, is prettier, more popular, and richer than Lena. Lena has a sister, who is "cured" of deliria and married. Lena, an orphan, lives with her aunt, uncle, and two cousins. The totalitarian government teaches that love is a disease, Amor deliria Nervosa, commonly referred to as "the deliria." A surgical cure for deliria has been developed and is mandatory for citizens of at least 18 years old. Electric fences separate the city from the Wilds, unregulated territory that was presumably destroyed by bombs. Travel between these cities is highly restricted. Civilization is concentrated in the cities that escaped the severe bombings decades earlier.
The story is set in Portland, Maine, in the year 2091. Delirium is the first novel in a trilogy, followed by Pandemonium, and Requiem. The story focuses on a young woman, Lena Haloway, who falls in love in a society where love is seen as a disease. Sophisticated and wide-ranging, Requiem brings the Delirium trilogy to a thrilling conclusion.Delirium is a dystopian young adult novel written by Lauren Oliver, published on January 1, 2011, by HarperCollins (HarperTeen). With lyrical writing, Lauren Oliver seamlessly interweaves the peril that Lena faces with the inner tumult she experiences after the reappearance of her first love, Alex, the boy she thought was dead. They live side by side in a world that divides them until, at last, their stories converge. Requiem is told from both Lena and Hana's points of view. Regulators infiltrate the borderlands to stamp out the rebels.Īs Lena navigates the increasingly dangerous terrain of the Wilds, her best friend, Hana, lives a safe, loveless life in Portland as the fiancée of the young mayor. Pockets of rebellion have opened throughout the country, and the government cannot deny the existence of Invalids. But the Wilds are no longer a safe haven. The nascent rebellion that was underway in Pandemonium has ignited into an all-out revolution in Requiem, and Lena is at the center of the fight.Īfter rescuing Julian from a death sentence, Lena and her friends fled to the Wilds. Now an active member of the resistance, Lena has transformed. This exciting finale to Lauren Oliver's New York Times bestselling Delirium trilogy is a riveting blend of nonstop action and forbidden romance in a dystopian United States.
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