Harper, 2011
for: YA
441 pages
Really good/4
First line/s: "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."
Setting: Dystopian Portland, Maine - contemporary parallel
OSS: Just a few months before the mandated treatment that cures everyone at age 18 of any feelings of love, Lena falls in love.
This is a well-done dystopian adventure. Lena and her best friend, Hana, will both be cured in September, and they're ready. love is a disease that can kill you. Once you're cured, the only thing you have to worry about is government regulators and raids. Your mate is chosen for you as is your job, your home...and people find safety in that.
When Lena meets Alex, she learns more about the Resistance, and the "invalids" who live outside the city's electrified fence. She's reluctant at first to senak out after curfew, attend secret parties, and meet on the sly with Alex - but she can't help it.
Horrifying ending - you just can't wait to read the next segment.
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