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Hana [Kindle Edition]

Lauren Oliver
3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (96 customer reviews)

Kindle Price: $2.99 includes free wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet
Sold by: HarperCollins Publishers


Book Description

Lauren Oliver's riveting, original digital story set in the world of her New York Times bestseller Delirium.

The summer before they're supposed to be cured of the ability to love, best friends Lena and Hana begin to drift apart. While Lena shies away from underground music and parties with boys, Hana jumps at her last chance to experience the forbidden. For her, the summer is full of wild music, dancing—and even her first kiss.

But on the surface, Hana must be a model of perfect behavior. She meets her approved match, Fred Hargrove, and glimpses the safe, comfortable life she’ll have with him once they marry. As the date for her cure draws ever closer, Hana desperately misses Lena, wonders how it feels to truly be in love, and is simultaneously terrified of rebelling and of falling into line.

In this digital story that will appeal to fans of Delirium and welcome new admirers to its world, readers will come to understand scenes from Delirium through Hana's perspective. Hana is a touching and revealing look at a life-changing and tumultuous summer.


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'A dystopian Romeo and Juliet . . . Lauren Oliver's futuristic vision, set in an alternate but recognisable America, is chillingly realised.'


Product Details

  • File Size: 439 KB
  • Print Length: 62 pages
  • Publisher: HarperCollins (February 28, 2012)
  • Sold by: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B005MMNZYE
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • X-Ray: Enabled
  • Lending: Not Enabled
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,248 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars It's a poison. And I like it. March 2, 2012
Format:Kindle Edition
Who is Hana? In Lauren Oliver's "Delirium," she's the best friend of the protagonist Lena, in a dystopian world where love is "cured."

And while the short story "Hana" is not quite as gripping as "Delirium," it is a riveting little look inside the mind of a teenage girl who embraces amor deliria nervosa... and discovers that pain and heartbreak can come from love as well. And it fleshes out the character of Hana considerably, letting us see why she does what she does.

Hana is a wild girl. She's scheduled for the procedure in the fall, and has been matched to the mayor's handsome son, but she has a secret life her parents haven't even dreamed of. She's madly in love with a boy from her school, and she loves to sneak away and immerse herself in wild underground parties filled with dancing, music and passion.

But soon Hana's wild hidden world starts to fall apart. Her life becomes consumed with fear of being caught and forced through the procedure, and she discovers that the boy she's been crushing on doesn't share her feelings. And when she finally goes to see her old friend Lena, she makes a devastating discovery that will change everything.

It's not strictly necessary to read "Delirium" before reading "Hana" -- you get a pretty good idea of how this world works right from the beginning. However, it's probably best to read Lauren Oliver's full-length books along with this, because it ends on a major cliffhanger that promises to disrupt everything in Hana and Lena's lives.

And the story really fleshes out Hana, who merely seemed like a rebellious rich kid who's scared to really risk it all in "Delirium." Here we see that she was truly beginning to rebel against the strictures of her society, only to have heartbreak and jealousy smash her back.

Lauren Oliver's writing is sumptuous and infused with emotion, giving great significance to the importance of real love ("They speak in a language of whispers and giggles and secrets; their words are like a fairy-tale tangle of thorns, which place a wall between us"). And she gives a real feeling of fearful tension to Hana's secret life.

"Hana" is a bittersweet little story that really enhances the story of "Delirium." Give this short story a quick look before reading "Pandemonium."
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars a bit disappointing March 6, 2012
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
I think Hana's voice is too much like Lena's voice. This short story covers a time period that has already been covered by Lena in Delirium, the first novel in the trilogy. It was sort of interesting to get Hana's perspective, but not much happens. It's definitely not crucial to your understanding of the trilogy, so if you don't have a Kindle and are bummed out that you can't read it, you really aren't missing anything important.
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
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This book is by my current favorite YA author, Lauren Oliver. Her book Before I fall and her Delirium series (particularly the recently released Pandemonium) rank among my favorite books of all time. I think because of this, I have the highest expectations of her work.

This installment is in the Delirium-verse and is in the viewpoint of one of Delirium's most interesting characters, Hana. We get to see the story of Delirium from her eyes and her experiences when she is not in Lena's company.

Lauren Oliver's prose is still beautiful. She has a way with words that makes me catch my breath after each paragraph. However, this story left me very disappointed. I think it is because to me, this is not the story that I was most interested in hearing. I did not really care to hear about Hana's perspective of the events in Delirium-- there were no surprises... Lena has pretty much deduced most of these events. There is a surprise ending and while it was a shocker, it just raised more questions.

How did Hana get to this place? We aren't guided there, there is just two pages of reflection at the end that don't lead up to this event. And what I'm interested in, is what takes place after this twist. How does this change Hana? Does she ever get the operation? What is her life like after Lena leaves? That's the story I wanted.

That said, I am incredibly excited to see the final installment of this trilogy.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
3.0 out of 5 stars Good Insight Into Hana's Character
I enjoyed reading this installment and hearing the events from Hana's point of view. It was interesting that there was a sort of role reversal between she and Lena. Read more
Published 8 hours ago by Woodstock68
3.0 out of 5 stars Not my favorite "short," but still worth the read.
I've read this story twice now (once when it was available to read for free, and then again more recently when I bought the Delirium Stories collection), and I think I liked it... Read more
Published 5 days ago by AshleyF
1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing & Unnecessary
This is unnecessary to read in order to continue with the Delirium Trilogy. I did not feel like it furthered the story or helped with understanding or even enhanced it that much. Read more
Published 5 days ago by GO
4.0 out of 5 stars Hana
Interesting to see Hana's point of view before she's "cured"-I'm not sure if it's because it's been awhile since I've read the first book, but the end surprised me-hope to... Read more
Published 26 days ago by booklover
3.0 out of 5 stars Not my favorite of the "short" in the series, but good.
I liked Hanna. I LOVED Annabelle and Raven. Like the others I really really want the author to finish these stories! There is more story to be told!
Published 1 month ago by Jennifer Glynn
3.0 out of 5 stars A bit of a waste of time!
I've always been a fan of Lauren Oliver's books whether they be contemporary or dystopian. However, Hana really let me down. Read more
Published 1 month ago by K. Butler
5.0 out of 5 stars It's Delirium, but from Hana's POV!
After Lena and Hana have their evaluations and get matched, they start to grow apart and their relationship starts to deteriorate. Read more
Published 2 months ago by The Bumble Girl
3.0 out of 5 stars Meh.
It was okay. Not sure what I expected, but it didn't do much for me. I guess it's interesting what Hana was up to, but the ending is just kind of... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Hannah Danielle
4.0 out of 5 stars Hana
Hana tells about Lena's best friend. We get to see her attitude towards her match and her rebellion of sneaking out with a boy from school. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Rachael
4.0 out of 5 stars Nice short story
It was nice to hear Hana I would have liked more in her POV & was shocked & pissed that she's the one !! But it's a book & I didn't write it I enjoy reading it all on to requiem
Published 2 months ago by marie79
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Lauren Oliver captivated readers with her first novel, the New York Times bestseller Before I Fall, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year. She followed that up with Delirium and Pandemonium, the first two books in her bestselling trilogy, which concludes with Requiem. Delirium has been optioned for film by Fox 2000 Pictures. Oliver is also the author of two luminous novels for middle-grade readers, The Spindlers and Liesl & Po, which was named a Kirkus Best Book of the Year. A graduate of the University of Chicago and NYU's MFA program, Lauren Oliver lives in Brooklyn, New York. You can visit her online at www.laurenoliverbooks.com.
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I agree! I'd also like to see this book as an actual physical copy.
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