Daily Archives: August 2, 2015


Delirium (Lauren Oliver)

Delirium Lauren Oliver   I picked up this book based on what I’d read of Raven; one of the novellas in the Delirium universe. I was sucked in by the writing and decided to start at the beginning. Unfortunately, that proved to be somewhat of a slog, because Delirium has the traditional slow ramp-up of YA dystopia. I’d write that off as a occupational hazard (so to speak) of the genre, but counterexamples such as Susan Ee’s Angelfall come to mind.   Angelfall came to mind as a comparison often while reading Delirium, actually, perhaps due to the prominence of […]