Setting of Delirium

    The new book that I recently started reading is Delirium. If you have never heard of it, Delirium is another book, like Divergent, that is based off of a dystopian society. In this society, over years of research, scientists have concluded that love is a deadly disease that needs to be cured. Love can only be cured by an operation that you recieve when you turn 18. Lena, the main character, is almost 18 and is only months away from never having to worry about suffering from love, when she does the unthinkable and falls in love with an Invalid (a person over 18 who has not taken the Cure and lives in the Wilds) named Alex.

   The story is set in Portland, Maine, in an alternate present. Civilization is concentrated in those cities which escaped the severe bombings of decades past. Travel between cities is highly restricted. Electric fences separate the city from the Wilds—unregulated territory which was presumably mostly destroyed by bombs. The Wilds are considered extremely dangerous and deathly, but could these just be rumors to keep the people in? Alex has lived in the Wilds for a long time now, and he just may be convincing enough to get Lena to rebel and move there too.

    If you are interested in reading some quotes from Delirium to see if you may be interested, Click Here.