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Delirium series by
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Information On The BooksGeneral SeriesSummaryIn a futuristic world where love is scientifically categorized as a disease, Lena is forced to choose between the life she has always known she would live, as a Cured, or discover a deeper part of herself, the Invalid part of herself, that wants nothing more than to be infected and fight for what she's always known as the ultimate disease. "It kills you both when you have it and when you don't."
Genres Teen, Young Adult, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Romance, Fantasy, Love, Adventure
Book #1
SummaryBefore scientists found the cure, people thought love was a good thing.
They didn’t understand that once love -- the
deliria -- blooms in your blood, there is no escaping its hold. Things are different now. Scientists are able to eradicate love, and the government demands that all citizens receive the cure upon turning eighteen. Lena Holoway has always looked forward to the day when she’ll be cured. A life without love is a life without pain: safe, measured, predictable, and happy.
But with ninety-five days left until her treatment, Lena does the unthinkable: She falls in love.
PublishedJanuary 1, 2011
AwardsNew York Times bestseller
New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association bestseller
#2 Spring Indie Children’s Pick
Amazon’s Best Teen Book of the Month for February 2011
YAReads.com Book of the Month for March 2011
Nominee for Best Fiction for Young Adults discussion by the ALA BFYA
Amazon’s 2011 Summer Reading List
Amazon’s Best YA Novel of 2011 so far
Nominee for YALSA’s Best Fiction for Young Adults 2012
Book #2
Summary"So what was your name before?" I say, and she freezes, her back to me. "Before you came to the
Wilds, I mean."
For a moment she stands there.
Then she turns around.
"You might as well get used to it now," she says with quite intensity.
"Everything you were, the life you had, the people you knew... dust."
She shakes her head and says, a little more firmly, "There is no before. There is only now, and what comes next."
After falling in love, Lena and Alex flee their oppressive society where love is outlawed and everyone must receive the "cure" - an operation that makes them immune to the delirium of love - but Lena alone manages to find her way to a community of resistance fighters. Although she is bereft without the boy she loves, her struggles seem to be leading her toward a new love.
PublishedFebruary 28, 2012
Book #3
SummaryNow an active member of the resistance, Lena has been transformed. The nascent rebellion that was under way in
Pandemonium has ignited into an all-out revolution in
Requiem, and Lena is at the center of the fight.
After rescuing Julian from a death sentence, Lena and her friends fled to the Wilds. But the Wilds are no longer a safe haven—pockets of rebellion have opened throughout the country, and the government cannot deny the existence of Invalids. Regulators now infiltrate the borderlands to stamp out the rebels, and as Lena navigates the increasingly dangerous terrain, her best friend, Hana, lives a safe, loveless life in Portland as the fiancée of the young mayor. Requiem is told from both Lena’s and Hana’s points of view. The two girls live side by side in a world that divides them until, at last, their stories converge
Publish DateMarch 5th, 2013
Book #0.5
SummaryLena's mother, Annabel, has always been a mystery—a ghost in Lena's past. Until now.
Discover her secrets in Lauren Oliver's brilliant original digital story set in the world of
New York Times bestsellers
Delirium and
Pandemonium.Lena Halloway's mother, Annabel, supposedly committed suicide when Lena was only six years old. That's the lie that Lena grew up believing, but the truth is very different. As a rebellious teenager, Annabel ran away from home and straight into the man she knew she was destined to marry. The world was different then—the regulations not as stringent, the cure only a decade old. Fast forward to the present, and Annabel is consigned to a dirty prison cell, where she nurtures her hope of escape and scratches one word over and over into the walls: Love.
But Annabel, like Lena, is a fighter. Through chapters that alternate between her past and present, Annabel reveals the story behind her failed cures, her marriage, the births of her children, her imprisonment, and, ultimately, her daring escape.
Book #1.5
SummaryLauren Oliver's riveting, original digital story set in the world of her
New York Times bestseller
Delirium.
The summer before they're supposed to be cured of the ability to love, best friends Lena and Hana begin to drift apart. While Lena shies away from underground music and parties with boys, Hana jumps at her last chance to experience the forbidden. For her, the summer is full of wild music, dancing—and even her first kiss.
But on the surface, Hana must be a model of perfect behavior. She meets her approved match, Fred Hargrove, and glimpses the safe, comfortable life she’ll have with him once they marry. As the date for her cure draws ever closer, Hana desperately misses Lena, wonders how it feels to truly be in love, and is simultaneously terrified of rebelling and of falling into line.
In this digital story that will appeal to fans of
Delirium and welcome new admirers to its world, readers will come to understand scenes from
Delirium through Hana's perspective.
Hana is a touching and revealing look at a life-changing and tumultuous summer.
Books #2.5
SummaryThis captivating 50-page digital-original story set in the world of Lauren Oliver’s
New York Times bestselling
Delirium series focuses on Raven, the fiery leader of a rebel group in the Wilds.
As a teenager, Raven made the split-second decision to flee across the border to the Wilds, compelled to save an abandoned newborn—a baby girl left for dead and already blue from the cold. When she and the baby are taken in by a band of rebels, Raven finds herself an outsider within a tight-knit group. The only other newcomer is an untrustworthy boy known as the Thief until he finally earns himself a new name: Tack.
Now she and Tack are inseparable, committed to each other, the fledgling rebellion, and a future together. But as they both take center stage in the fight, Raven must decide whether the dangers of the revolution are worth risking her dreams of a peaceful life with Tack.
As her story hurtles back and forth between past and present, Raven transforms from a scared girl newly arrived in the Wilds to the tough leader who helps Lena save former Deliria-Free poster boy Julian Fineman from a death sentence. Whatever the original mission may have been, Raven abides by a conviction that she believes to her core: You always return for the people you love.
By turns surprising, revelatory, and poignant, Raven’s story enriches the
Delirium world and resonates with a voice that is as vulnerable as it is strong
Publish DateAll three novella's will be available in one paper-back novel on March 5, 2013
Other Information
January 23, 2013
Confirmation that Fox will be releasing a television show based on these books!
February 7, 2013
Emma Roberts is announced to star as Lena in the Fox TV show!
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