How It All Goes Down
- Right away, we're dumped into a world where love is a sickness and a crime: "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" (1.1).
- Our narrator will be having "the procedure" (1.2) on her eighteenth birthday, which is ninety-five days away: September 3. That puts us near the end of May.
- The narrator isn't afraid of the cure. She's looking forward to never being able to love. After all, it's "the deadliest of all deadly things" (1.12). We always though the Deadliest Catch was a ten-foot King Crab.