

The third book of this series shows two points of view: one from Lena's and one from Lena's best friend, Hana, who has undergone the procedure and remained in the gated community of Portland. In the second book, she joins the resistance in the wilds and falls in love with/convinces the son of the founder of the disease-eliminating surgery, Julian, to understand why love is so important and to run away with her into the wilds.Ĭlick here to see the rest of this review

In the first book of the series, Lena falls in love with Alex and escapes from the gated community of Portland surgery-free ("uncured") but believes Alex was killed during the escape.

When young people reach a certain age, they undergo surgery to eliminate "love" from their brain - becoming "cured". In this dystopian story, Love is considered a disease that causes instability, irrationality and chaos. Lena is a member of a resistance group living in the wilds outside of the protected, gated communities she used to live in. The uncureds living in the wilds are amassing in numbers and strength and plan to overthrow the gated communities of cureds to free the people from the discrimination and oppression against love.
