Her novels have been translated into more than thirty-five languages, and sold more than 3.5 million copies worldwide. Her other YA novels include the Delirium trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, and Requiem, Vanishing Girls, Broken Things, and the Replica duology. It debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 2017, garnering a wide release from Open Road Films that year. Oliver's first bestselling novel, Before I Fall, was acquired by Awesomeness Films and adapted into a major motion picture starring Zoey Deutch. Glasstown Entertainment has a first-look deal with Amazon Studios where they are currently in development on projects like I Hope You Get This Message by Farah Rishi and Havenfall by Sara Holland, being adapted by Evan Daughtery and co-producing with Weed Road Pictures. I would recommend it to anyone who likes a good young adult dystopian romance.Lauren Oliver is a multi- New York Times bestselling author, the executive producer, creator and sole writer for the first season of Amazon Studio's one-hour drama series, Panic (premiering May 28), based on her bestselling novel of the same name, and co-founder of Glasstown Entertainment, where she also serves as the president of production. I thoroughly enjoyed this novel it kept me enthralled and the epic cliff-hanger made me dive directly into Pandemonium. You get the feeling that the characters are friends of yours and you’re reading their story rather than reading the story of a stranger. Oliver’s writing style was descriptive and flowing she definitely understands the audience she’s writing for. With certain events and incidents in the novel, she grows from them, developing her understanding of the world and her mind as a character, not only finding herself, but secrets kept hidden. I think the most remarkable character development is Lena herself and it’s not a complete 360 in ten seconds flat and she’s not a whiney female lead. The character development in the novel is astounding, with characters actually growing and changing as the story progresses. Lauren Oliver has a way with words that just sucks you into Lena’s world, you sort of wish you were part of it and at the same time you wish you were safely tucked in your own world reading words on a page. In a dystopian society how is she meant to not only let her love blossom but hide it from her family, a family who is bent on keeping Lena safe, secure and happy, all without the Deliria. With ninety-five days until her cure, it happens, Lena falls in love. It’s then that Lena sees Alex Sheathes, a man she mistakes as an Invalid and in a world where Love is unthinkable, it happens. But with the stress of the evaluation, she makes a huge mistake just before a stampede of cows runs through the facility, ruining her evaluation. With Lena’s cure looming, she has her evaluation, an evaluation that will place her with the most suitable partner. But the Government with its Handbook (The Safety, Health and Happiness Handbook), The Book of Shhh as Lena calls it, have found a cure for the disease, a cure for love. Seventeen-year-old Lena Haloway has been brought up, in the fenced off city of Portland, Maine, to believe that Love is indeed a disease, Amor Deliria Nervosa. In Lauren Oliver’s Delirium, the first novel in the Delirium trilogy, that world is a reality. Now imagine that world to be fenced off cities in the United States. Imagine a world where Love was a disease. Delirium trilogy #1 A review by Elizabeth Manthos
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