Lena later remembered that she wished her aunt would hold her hand and reassure her as she walked to school that everything would be all right, but she knew that would never happen. Life with the Tiddles was not unpleasant but certainly loveless. Rachel and Lena-now technically orphans-went to go live with their Aunt Carol Tiddle and her family. They cannot take it.'Īnnabel subsequently disappeared, and for many years Lena was told, and believed, that her mother had committed suicide. That night, as Annabel tucked Lena into bed, she whispered the words that would forever haunt Lena. At this point, Annabel had three procedures for the cure, and many of her relatives believed that the regulators would drag her to a fourth one. Regulators got called in as Annabel continued to show far too much emotion. These good times were not to last long, however. Lena would later be much conflicted about these events as society viewed such behavior as bad while she could not help but think of them as good. Her mother had never been properly cured of the deliria and thus loved her children deeply-playing games and laughing with them long into the night. However, her earliest memories were happy ones. Sadly, Lena would never get to know her father, as he died of a brain tumor shortly after she was born. Purportedly Lena was named after Mary Magdalene from The Book of Shhh, the first woman ever to be cured of the dreaded amor deliria nervosa. On September 3rd, eighteen years before the events of Delirium, Magdalena 'Lena' Ella Haloway was born in Portland, Maine to Conrad Haloway and Annabel Haloway, with a sister, Rachel Haloway, already nine years old.

1.4 Requiem (WARNING: Book spoilers are below!)īiography (WARNING: Book spoilers are below!) Early Life.

1.3 Pandemonium (WARNING: Book spoilers are below!).

1.2 Delirium (WARNING: Book spoilers are below!).

1 Biography (WARNING: Book spoilers are below!).

Lena's story follows that of her normal life until she eventually confronts the lies and propaganda of her society, doing the worst thing imaginable as she falls in love. The cure was invented to prevent wars, stabilize citizens' emotions, and save them from heartbreak. Most people get cured at 18, and as a result of the cure, people become more withdrawn and cut off from their emotions. People can choose from a list of the evaluation results whom they marry. All citizens get evaluated on their personalities and matched with a few different people. In Lena's society, love is considered deadly and a disease. She is the main character in Delirium, Pandemonium, and Requiem and has supporting roles in numerous short stories. Magdalena Ella Haloway, best known as Lena, is a normal girl from Portland, Maine.

I am five feet two inches tall and I am in-between in every way.

Pandemonium delirium trilogy