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3.85 AVERAGE
3.85 AVERAGE
HOLY CRAP.
This was amazing! Though, the end made me made. I threw a tantrum and cried. Thankfully I was alone.
This was amazing! Though, the end made me made. I threw a tantrum and cried. Thankfully I was alone.
I think I liked the first book better, although it was too long ago for me to remember it all. The way this book is laid out is a bit confusing at first, then and now, and the then wasn't as interesting to me as the now. But wow, what a cliffhanger and am interested to read the last book for sure.
I enjoyed this book just not as much as the first one, Delirium. It got better the more I read, but it took almost 100 pages to get sucked in. It ended on an amazing note and I'm ready to finish up the series!!
Pandemonium is a lush, brilliant sequel to Delirium, picking up where that awful cliffhanger left off. Told in chapters that alternate from the present to the past, the story follows Lena, from her time in the Wilds to her work for the Resistance. I loved Lena's character in here--she was strong, courageous, and most of all, determined. Oliver's writing style is incredible, effectively bringing Lena's journey to life; the prose really suits the desperation of a crumbling society and Lena's own realization that she can fall in love again. As for the ending... wow. I did not see that coming--.
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Alex is alive?
Pandemonium is the second book of Delirium trilogy. I loved the first book, I really did and I was dying to read this book, so when it came out, I just had to get it. I started reading it and I couldn’t stop. With its NOW and THEN it kept you glued to the book, incapable of doing anything else!
I started this book in denial, saying: No, Alex is not dead. No, no, no! No, Lena, don’t fall for Julian, no! Alex is somewhere, I know it, I feel it!! I didn’t want to fall for Julian either, but I couldn’t help it. This boy gets under your skin, he takes over your heart and you’re lost! So I can’t blame Lena, it was impossible not to love him.
I love Lauren Oliver, I really do, she’s amazing, but she had me crying the whole book, yelling for Alex, hoping he was alive. When I’m finally accepting that he died, BOM! he appears and he seems so changed. My heart just broke with that cliffhanger and now I have to wait a YEAR for that book. I’ll die, I know that.
The book is brilliant, Lena’s evolution is even better than in Delirium, how she discovers more and more things about the people surrounding her, oh, that is just great. I love her more than before and I have so many theories for the next book and at the same time I’m so scared. I don’t know what is going to happen, I just know I’ll have a heart attack.
I started this book in denial, saying: No, Alex is not dead. No, no, no! No, Lena, don’t fall for Julian, no! Alex is somewhere, I know it, I feel it!! I didn’t want to fall for Julian either, but I couldn’t help it. This boy gets under your skin, he takes over your heart and you’re lost! So I can’t blame Lena, it was impossible not to love him.
I love Lauren Oliver, I really do, she’s amazing, but she had me crying the whole book, yelling for Alex, hoping he was alive. When I’m finally accepting that he died, BOM! he appears and he seems so changed. My heart just broke with that cliffhanger and now I have to wait a YEAR for that book. I’ll die, I know that.
The book is brilliant, Lena’s evolution is even better than in Delirium, how she discovers more and more things about the people surrounding her, oh, that is just great. I love her more than before and I have so many theories for the next book and at the same time I’m so scared. I don’t know what is going to happen, I just know I’ll have a heart attack.
ARGHHH!!!!!
Knowing that Alex was going to turn up right at the last minute, it was painful to read the last scene!
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Knowing that Alex was going to turn up right at the last minute, it was painful to read the last scene!
Ended up being 5 stars for me, mostly for to the last few pages. Totally didn't see that ending coming. Lena forgot Alex a little too easily for my taste. Still a solid read and I do enjoy this author's style. 2013 is long time to wait for the next installment!
This Book proved yet again, just like Suzzane Collin's Catching Fire, that a second book can be better than the first. I could not put this book down and the ending was brilliant! I was suspecting the ending at the end of the first book, but the way she went about in the book really fooled me into thinking he was gone! I'm in love with this series. The over description of things wasn't as prevalent in this book as Delirium, which is probably why this book was so much better. I have to get the third book!
