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As in Ally Condie's Matched (see above), teens in Lena's world are paired by all-knowing authorities with their appropriate future spouses. Here the enemy is not free choice but love: "It has been sixty-four years since the president and the Consortium identified love as a disease, and forty-three since the scientists perfected a cure." On th...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Gr 8 Up—In this gripping dystopian novel set in a future Portland, ME, everyone is safe, unhappiness can be cured, and the freedoms we take for granted have been relinquished in the name of "security" and "the common good." There is no risk and no pain, or at least there won't be for 17-year-old Lena Haloway and her outspoken friend, Hana, once they turn 18. They will then be eligible, in fact forced, to undergo the procedure that will render them impervious to delirium—the disease that was formerly known as love. You can see, of course, right where this is he...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

In a near-future United States whose borders are closed to the rest of the world, the government has created a cure for the "deadly" disease amor deliria nervosa—a.k.a. love. Following a long line of literary dystopias, Oliver depicts a controlled society in which the sanctioned way of life is bland and predictable, while human emotion is considered a dangerous element. High school senior Lena Haloway counts the d...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

In a near-future United States, the government has created a cure for the "deadly" disease <i>amor deliria nervosa</i>--a.k.a....Log In or Sign Up to Read More