Lena lives in a world where love is considered a disease. A cure for amor delirium nervosa (the scientific name for the disease) has been formulated by scientists and is distributed to every person in the community around their eighteenth birthday. Lena, like many others her age is excited that soon she will be cured and will be completely safe from the disease that tore her family apart. Lena's mother was given the cure three separate times after she contracted the disease but it was never totally diminished. She disappeared when Lena was still a young child and left her with nothing but memories and an older sister. After the incident with the disease, Lena went to live with her aunt and uncle. The story starts a little before Lena is going to be evaluated to decide who she will be paired with for marriage. A few minutes before her evaluation starts, Hana (Lena's best friend), whispers something strange to her which Lena can't quite keep out of her mind, even during her evaluation. Just as she is about to make a horrible mistake, the alarm in the building goes off accompanied by a stampede set by the Invalids, people who don't agree with the idea that love is a disease. Lena is scheduled to have her evaluation a different day, but not before she catches a glimpse of a strange boy standing on the observation deck above her evaluation room. What Lena doesn't know, is that the boy she saw for only a few seconds during the stampede, was about to change her life so drastically that she wouldn't even recognize her old self.
Lena continues her journey in the two other books in this trilogy, Pandemonium and Requiem. This series had me hooked from page one! This is one of my favorite trilogies, however, there are several typos in the books and even if they don't take away from the story, they can be a little confusing at times.
I would give this trilogy a 4 out of 5 stars.
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