I think I enjoyed it more for the world it created than the actual plot (though it definitely picked up at the end of the book).

It hit all the requirements for an enjoyable read despite my lack of love for Lena. I think Hana’s character was a lot more interesting to me and I would have liked to have read more about her at the start (eventually we get more about her later).ĭelirium, book 1, was a good book. She was alright in the first book and I liked the character development in the second ( Pandemonium) but it was a chore to read about her in book 3, Requiem. I found that as each book went on, I lost some of my love for them (no pun intended). What really killed this series for me was the characters. There is definite logic to everything and I really appreciate that. I like that she transforms Bible passages and other notable works of literature to support the story. I think that Lauren Oliver excels at creating the setting as a world without love. The whole idea that love was a disease that needed to be eradicated seemed very refreshing to me (most dystopian novels I had read all focused on political or personality types as a way to segregate society) so I was definitely interested in. I love dystopian fiction and at the time that the first novel, Delirium, had come out, dystopian fiction was just starting to get big. This was one of those series I had a lot of hope for but didn’t quite meet the bar. There are also eBook novellas, for the complete reading order of the series click here # of Books: 3 (Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem)

Delirium trilogy