First line: "It has been sixty-four years since the president and the Consortium identified love as a disease, and forty-three since the scientists perfected a cure."

Being a reader that rarely continues into a series (there's just too many books out there!), I'll actually be reading the next one. This was a well written dystopian novel that leans heavily on a few characters and their relationships with each other and with their world. Kids that liked the fast pace plot of The Hunger Games and Divergent may not find it in Delirium, but they will leave this novel with a sense of connection to the characters and its world. It also has a pretty suspenseful ending.