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Beware, it’s talking about ending!
Reading the description of this book, I thought that the whole can be really fascinating and I bought the entire trilogy to my collection, and after reading the first volume, I must admit that I was disappointed. I rate to weak seven stars, only because of the interesting idea for creation of the world.
And vision of the future in this book is really thrilling. A world where people think that love and feelings are terrible disease, that destroys humans and is the cause of all evil, a world where people voluntarily do procedure 'cure' of feelings and become blunt machines which go through life planned way, with partner chosen by the government and are "happy". All cases of non-compliance with the prevailing rules are eliminated, treated against their will, or closed in the crypts. But there is also a group of rebels who live outside the fence of safe cities, and in the city, pretending to be a member of ‘without feelings’ society.
And here, I think, ends up that I liked this book, because the whole story set in this exciting world was quite childish and I cann’t help feeling that everything was so... obvious. Any event that could shake me or surprise me, it was suggested earlier by the author, which was really annoying. It was obvious that the main character falls in love before surgery, it was obvious that Alex comes from the Wild, it was obvious they want to escape together, with more or less complications, it was obvious that Lena’s mother lives... a whole string of smaller and larger obviousness turned into rather barren history. Even same ending that Alex sacrificed for Lena, the author suggested, and when it’s said that the fence is electrified and Alex insisted that Lena didn’t look back... it was already known that will not a happy ending in this part. I'm glad after all of this turn of events, I have something to think about before reading the next part, at least for now, because through whole 'Delirium' wasn’t really something to think about, because everything was served on a tray.
On the plus side this book I can mention a lot of pertinent observations about love, loved the fragments of various books at the beginning of each chapter, everything was mature and thoughtful, and... absolutely don’t fit into the main character, as if she had some split personality, on the one hand immature child, on the other - woman with experience.
The big downside for me was the character of Lena, both for the reasons mentioned above, as well as the creation of the main character: a young, innocent, polite, a small brunette, not beautiful, but not ugly, just an ordinary, average, with artificially low self-esteem... yeah I puking probably figures like this in the literature. I know that many teenager personifies precisely with main characters of this type, they get their own self, but while reading it’s so damn boring!
I reach for the next parts, I have them on my shelf, but so far there's no sign of the fact that this will be one of my favorite dystopia story and that I will recommend it to my friends.
“I know that life isn't life if you just float through it. I know that the whole point- the only point- is to find the things that matter and hold onto them and fight for them and refuse to let them go.”
7/10
