We give up our privacy every day on Facebook, like when we post about hitting up every donut shop in a five-mile radius on National Donut Day. (Maybe that's why we didn't get the job at the fitness center.) We give up certain rights when we travel as well. In the name of safety, we let airport scanners and Transportation Security Administration agents scrutinize us to make sure the only heat we're packing is the bicep muscle kind. To boot, the U.S. National Security Agency is monitoring what we do on the interwebz.

Whether you agree with these safety measures or not, they are totally the kind of thing great writers like George Orwell worried about. So what will we give up next?

What if we gave up the right to love? If this idea sounds sensational, it is. But it's also the perfect concept for a young-adult novel with a seventeen year-old heroine living in a grim future society.

In this society, the government labels love a fatal disease, and develops a cure for it. And they dictate pretty much every other aspect of people's lives while they're at it, all while claiming these extreme measures are necessary for the good of the public. So, take two parts melodrama, one part teen hormones, and a dash of dystopia, and you have the recipe for Delirium.

Published in 2011, Lauren Oliver's Delirium portrays a world where love is against the law. But after meeting the cutest boy in town, our narrator Lena is determined to evade the authorities and live her life as she chooses. Stop in the name of love, indeed.

Delirium is the first book in a trilogy, which continues with Pandemonium, and concludes with Requiem. There are also three novellas that take place between the big doorstopper books, including a prequel. We think the story is really more of a makeout-ology than a trilogy, but the word "makeout-ology" would probably be banned in Lena's world.

Oh, and Delirium was set to be a TV show with Lena played by Emma Roberts, who is famous for the Nickelodeon show Unfabulous and for being Julia Roberts's niece. But Fox rejected the pilot, so maybe the first steps to ban love are already being taken.

Or maybe the show just wasn't that good. The book is almost always better, so now that there won't be a TV show, you have no choice but to read the book. Okay, you do have a choice. We don't live in Lena's dystopian society… yet.

Ah, the blossoming feelings of first love. The racing heart. The nervous sweats. The mood swings. The jealousy. The carving of your boyfriend or girlfriend's name into your desk and hiding it so you don't get in trouble.

The feeling that you're just going to die if the relationship doesn't work out. Yikes.

Yes, love has its pros and its cons. Sometimes, you might think: Is it even worth it? Wouldn't life be easier if we didn't have all these hormones coursing through our veins? Well, those are exactly the questions Delirium tries to answer.

And, rather wisely in our opinion, author Lauren Oliver has her characters explore these personal questions about the value of love in a totalitarian society—a world where the government is all up in everyone's business. So, it's not just your opinion on love Oliver wants you to consider in this book, Shmoopers.

Oliver wants you think about whether or not the government should have the right to tell you what you should and shouldn't value. Because even if you're not super into love, there might be someone else who is.