It was released to largely positive reviews, including starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews and the School Library Journal. Reception ĭelirium was a New York Times bestseller. The pilot episode was picked up by Hulu and was available to stream for a limited time beginning on June 20, 2014. On March 1, 2013, Jeanine Mason was cast as Hana Tate. Karyn Usher penned the pilot, with Peter Chernin and Katherine Pope as executive producers. On FebruDaren Kagasoff was cast as Alex Sheathes, the male lead and Lena's love interest. In February 2013, Gregg Sulkin was cast as the role of Julian Fineman, one of Lena's love interests, but was changed to be the love interest of her best friend Hana Tate for the show. According to The Hollywood Reporter actress Emma Roberts was cast as Lena Haloway in the main role. Alex, also between the first and second books, was released with the first edition of the final book in the trilogy, Requiem.įox ordered a television pilot based on Delirium. The intermediate books were compiled into one book, Delirium Stories subtitled Hana, Annabel, and Raven, released the same date. Another book, set between the second and third books of the trilogy, Raven, was also released March 5, 2013. The third and final book in the trilogy, Requiem, was released on March 5, 2013. 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. Delirium is a dystopian young adult novel written by Lauren Oliver, published on January 1, 2011, by HarperCollins (HarperTeen).
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