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I just love Lena. She's a fighter, she adapts, she's resourceful, yet she's still human. I love how Ms. Oliver makes her characters human. :)
Well, this book had my heart racing for another guy. I loved it. Delirium became one of my favorite series.
I am not going to lie, I didn’t think I was going to read this book because I was so upset over how Delirium ended. I cried because I couldn’t believe what had happened and I didn’t see how the other could fix things on the sequel, so I didn’t something that I shouldn’t have done – I read about the sequel online! I know, I know! I spoiled it for myself but if you’ve read Delirium you know how disappointing the ending was. I did end up buying the book and the way the chapters were set up was a little weird, they were titled “Then” and “Now” so all through the book you’re switching back and forth between the present and the past. The past being what happened after she left her home and the present being her new life in New York. At first this whole “Then” and “Now” thing was really annoying but towards the end it got better. In any event, I was not happy with this book. I am glad I read it, and it wasn’t a book that I didn’t enjoy reading, but I wasn’t happy with the way the story turned out. They introduced a new love interest for Lena and because I was still very upset with what happened to Alex, I refused to give into Julian, the new love interest.
(Spoiler Alert)
Finally, after I decided that even though I didn’t like Julian as much as Alex, I started to give into him. I mean, it’s not his fault Alex died and if I should be mad at anyone its Lena! I mean, how she could possibly move on!? At the end when Lena finally gives into Julian and promises that she will always be with him, Alex walks in! He wasn’t dead! He survived and was being held prisoner! Here she is with another guy that gave up his livelihood to be her and the guy who practically died for her returns! Now, no matter what happens in the third book (Requiem) someone is going to end up hurt! I don’t dislike Julian but it’s not fair to him if Lena goes with Alex but at the same time, it’s Alex! How can she not go back to him! He gave up his life for her so that she could be free and practically died for her and here she is with another guy. If I had to guess what’s going to happen in the third book, I would guess that she’s going to end up with Alex, because if she doesn’t I am going to be super devastated. I think that Julian is going to die, but only because he’s been sick since he was young and now that he’s part of the resistance he won’t have medical access anyone. I don’t know what’s going to happen but whatever does, I hope I will be okay with it because I had to put this book down several times because I was so mad throughout the book. I just hate the way things turned out.
kind of predictable, but still good. i liked the first one a bit more, though.
Holy Mother in Heaven.
I don't typically write reviews, but after finishing this book I pretty much sat in my seat stunned for twenty minutes. I enjoyed Delirium quite a bit (although at that time I had just finished Divergent which I found a bit more interesting than Delirium), but this book completely blew Delirium, Divergent, and perhaps even The Hunger Games out of the water in terms of the writing.
The then/now format of the novel works terrifically; it starts you off with tons of questions as you wonder what in the world is happening. A few chapters into the novel, however, I was caught right in the middle of all of the action as Lauren Oliver threw cliffhanger after cliffhanger at me. You certainly won't be able to stop reading. If that wasn't enough, wait for the uber mega cliffhanger that is the end of the novel. AUGHHHHH WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO ME.
I CAN'T WAIT A YEAR FOR THE NEXT NOVEL.
The imagery in the novel is phenomenal and Oliver is amazing with her use of words. The language is beautiful. Lena is a stronger character than ever, and as Julian's story unfolds I found myself completely enthralled over his character (bitter resentment would be an accurate way of how I felt about him when he was first introduced, but oh boy did things change.)
While there are a few minor oddities in the plot (e.g. the way Lena managed to find the code into the house) and although I was hoping the book would tie up the chronological connection between the "then" plot with the "now" plot at the end of the story, these can be easily overlooked by the overall awesomeness of the book. By the time you finish your jaw will also drop as you spend the next hour (or more) pondering about what on earth will happen will afterwards. Waiting for Requiem is going to be torturous.
I don't typically write reviews, but after finishing this book I pretty much sat in my seat stunned for twenty minutes. I enjoyed Delirium quite a bit (although at that time I had just finished Divergent which I found a bit more interesting than Delirium), but this book completely blew Delirium, Divergent, and perhaps even The Hunger Games out of the water in terms of the writing.
The then/now format of the novel works terrifically; it starts you off with tons of questions as you wonder what in the world is happening. A few chapters into the novel, however, I was caught right in the middle of all of the action as Lauren Oliver threw cliffhanger after cliffhanger at me. You certainly won't be able to stop reading. If that wasn't enough, wait for the uber mega cliffhanger that is the end of the novel. AUGHHHHH WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO ME.
I CAN'T WAIT A YEAR FOR THE NEXT NOVEL.
The imagery in the novel is phenomenal and Oliver is amazing with her use of words. The language is beautiful. Lena is a stronger character than ever, and as Julian's story unfolds I found myself completely enthralled over his character (bitter resentment would be an accurate way of how I felt about him when he was first introduced, but oh boy did things change.)
While there are a few minor oddities in the plot (e.g. the way Lena managed to find the code into the house) and although I was hoping the book would tie up the chronological connection between the "then" plot with the "now" plot at the end of the story, these can be easily overlooked by the overall awesomeness of the book. By the time you finish your jaw will also drop as you spend the next hour (or more) pondering about what on earth will happen will afterwards. Waiting for Requiem is going to be torturous.
SPOILERS!!!!
Okey... that ending was kind of expected but after a couple minutes i started to ask questions about how did alex managed to escape????Did he get the cure??? Why was he so mean to Lena????
Then we have Julian, what can i say??? Team.... i dont konw im really confused!!!!!!
Lauren Oliver does such a good job making us fall in love with Julian as much as we loved Alex. We fall in love with them at the same time as Lena.
I think i kind of like Julian the best because we get to really kow him and i fell like Alex was always the same idk...
What else.. oh yes The "Then" chapters where sooooo god i loved how it is written and how it makes you really fell how hard it is to live in the wilds...
Loved this book, awesome writting, Lauren Oliver is the king of surprising-last-page endings.
Okey... that ending was kind of expected but after a couple minutes i started to ask questions about how did alex managed to escape????Did he get the cure??? Why was he so mean to Lena????
Then we have Julian, what can i say??? Team.... i dont konw im really confused!!!!!!
Lauren Oliver does such a good job making us fall in love with Julian as much as we loved Alex. We fall in love with them at the same time as Lena.
I think i kind of like Julian the best because we get to really kow him and i fell like Alex was always the same idk...
What else.. oh yes The "Then" chapters where sooooo god i loved how it is written and how it makes you really fell how hard it is to live in the wilds...
Loved this book, awesome writting, Lauren Oliver is the king of surprising-last-page endings.
I really enjoyed this book and found myself enjoying reading about Lena as she trys to move on in the Wilds assuming that Alex is dead. The story has two different threads, moving back and forward through time.
'Then' being when Lena first began in the Wilds, recovered from her escape and began to learn to hunt and survive. 'Now' is then set months later when Lena is on a mission for the resistance and has infiltrated the DFA (an organisation called Deliria-Free America who are campaigning for the cure to be administered on people who are under 18). It is her job to find out their plans, report them to the resistance and monitor Julian, the leaders son. In doing this she ends up being kidnapped with Julian and has to find a way to escape. Finding out more about herself and making her learn more about the resistance and her friends. Julian I found did grow on me though I didn't really feel the connection between them like when she was with Alex.
I really enjoyed following each story and discovering more about life in the Wilds and the resistance movement. The book had me hooked and I didn't want to put it down for a minute until I reached the end. The end then left me on a complete cliff hanger though one I was hoping for. Cannot wait to find out what happens next with the three main characters and with the resistance. Definitely a book I would recommend.
'Then' being when Lena first began in the Wilds, recovered from her escape and began to learn to hunt and survive. 'Now' is then set months later when Lena is on a mission for the resistance and has infiltrated the DFA (an organisation called Deliria-Free America who are campaigning for the cure to be administered on people who are under 18). It is her job to find out their plans, report them to the resistance and monitor Julian, the leaders son. In doing this she ends up being kidnapped with Julian and has to find a way to escape. Finding out more about herself and making her learn more about the resistance and her friends. Julian I found did grow on me though I didn't really feel the connection between them like when she was with Alex.
I really enjoyed following each story and discovering more about life in the Wilds and the resistance movement. The book had me hooked and I didn't want to put it down for a minute until I reached the end. The end then left me on a complete cliff hanger though one I was hoping for. Cannot wait to find out what happens next with the three main characters and with the resistance. Definitely a book I would recommend.
The ending wasn't that OMG ! but overall awesome book. Beginning was a bit slow and so was the ending but in between was good
Julian says, “I don’t think—I’m not sure I can go back.” His eyes are full of watery depth. I want to look away, but I can’t.
In Pandemonium, Lena reinvents herself for her to be ready to face a whole new world that’s very foreign to her. She did it so that she can survive. And she did it without her only true beloved beside her. Alex is gone, and Lena needs to move on with her life. How she did that, this book is ready to tell you.
As usual, Lauren Oliver narrates a story with a whisk of poetry. But I must say that I find the first book more beautifully written than this one. This book was, at first, hollow, just like Lena. And then, that void was filled with anger, angst and something like the desire to avenge. This did not have many beautiful scenes, but that doesn’t mean that her writing style wavered. She used powerful words to relay to the reader with maximum intensity the things that happened to Lena. And they weren’t pretty. That’s why I’m saying that Pandemonium’s not as beautiful as Delirium, without referring to the author’s talent.
I like how the story turned out. It was totally unexpected. And I love how it managed to surprise me.
I do think that Lauren Oliver loves contrasts. I don’t like the fact that she made a then and now part, because I didn’t like the then parts. But I know that those are essential to the story, especially to character building, so I’m not really complaining about it much. And the contrast in that is beautiful. I also love the contrast in .
I think that this novel is about love, hope and reconciliation. Just like the first book, it has a very nice theme and I love it. The love that I found in this book is different from the one in Delirium. It’s more mature and harsher. Now that I compare the two, the one in Delirium is gentle, free and simple. This one in Pandemonium is a lot more complicated, probably because of how it sprung. And because Lena has changed, the love she can give has changed, too. It has become more desperate but more courageous. It’s also about hope because I really thought that. But it turns out she has only learned to love more carefully, but when she lets herself, her passion for her loved one becomes stronger. There’s still hope for her. And there’s hope for her country, too. The Resistance is growing. It now has more potential to overthrow their current government and fight for their beliefs. I’m not sure with the reconciliation part, but here’s my take: as I’ve been saying, Lena became harder and stronger. She has learned to protect herself, from physical and emotional pain. But for that to happen, she threw away the part of herself that cared too deeply for other people. She became colder. But when , she finally reconciled her new hard self to the old one who knows what it means to love truly.
Some of the things that happened in Pandemonium are too convenient, though. They didn’t feel very realistic. They just didn’t have the air of coincidence. But that’s fine with me. I still like the story.
Now, the ending. It was totally heartstopping! Again, the ending broke my heart! For a second, I briefly thought that they might all just as well die so that the problem will be resolved. They’re just too painfully tangled—the strands of life in Lena’s world.
I thought Alex not remembering Lena was painful enough [I predicted that this would be the scenario in Pandemonium]. But this is tremendously more painful:.
Big change in Lena though. In the then part, she was still weak, and very depressed, so as I said, I didn’t like those parts. But then in the now part, I love her! She has become strong. She was hardened by the believers and the Wilds. She has become brave and risky. She now understands so many things that she didn’t know—when she was still oblivious, when she was almost cured—especially when it comes to hurt and pain.
I also love the newly introduced character, Julian.
This is only the second book written by Lauren Oliver that I’ve read, but I think it’s right to conclude that all her books have a very climactic, electrifying and very shocking ending. Blimey, the things that happened in the ending were so fast-paced I was reeling when I finished the book! Oliver’s endings are like sucker punches, actually. But I still love this book, despite the tremendous heartache it caused me. I don’t know why I keep being drawn to painfully sad love stories. Anyway, I can’t wait for the release of [b:Requiem|9593913|Requiem (Delirium, #3)|Lauren Oliver|http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg|14480925]!
In Pandemonium, Lena reinvents herself for her to be ready to face a whole new world that’s very foreign to her. She did it so that she can survive. And she did it without her only true beloved beside her. Alex is gone, and Lena needs to move on with her life. How she did that, this book is ready to tell you.
As usual, Lauren Oliver narrates a story with a whisk of poetry. But I must say that I find the first book more beautifully written than this one. This book was, at first, hollow, just like Lena. And then, that void was filled with anger, angst and something like the desire to avenge. This did not have many beautiful scenes, but that doesn’t mean that her writing style wavered. She used powerful words to relay to the reader with maximum intensity the things that happened to Lena. And they weren’t pretty. That’s why I’m saying that Pandemonium’s not as beautiful as Delirium, without referring to the author’s talent.
I like how the story turned out. It was totally unexpected.
Spoiler
Well, the part where Lena became a member of the Resistance is apparent, but I so did not see the part where Julian comes along.Spoiler
I really thought that Lena would be too hardened for her to fall in love again, especially with the then part.I do think that Lauren Oliver loves contrasts. I don’t like the fact that she made a then and now part, because I didn’t like the then parts. But I know that those are essential to the story, especially to character building, so I’m not really complaining about it much. And the contrast in that is beautiful.
Spoiler
I love how Lena seemed so helpless and hopeless in the then parts, which made me admire her more when I read in the now parts that she was able to pick up the pieces of herself that were left and put them back again enough that she is now a member of the Resistance.Spoiler
the love that bloomed between Lena and Julian. They were in very dire circumstances—even direr than when Alex and Lena fell in love with each other—but they found something that’s burning bright in the middle of all that darknessI think that this novel is about love, hope and reconciliation. Just like the first book, it has a very nice theme and I love it. The love that I found in this book is different from the one in Delirium. It’s more mature and harsher. Now that I compare the two, the one in Delirium is gentle, free and simple. This one in Pandemonium is a lot more complicated, probably because of how it sprung. And because Lena has changed, the love she can give has changed, too. It has become more desperate but more courageous. It’s also about hope because I really thought that
Spoiler
Lena will never love the way that she loved Alex againSpoiler
she met JulianSome of the things that happened in Pandemonium are too convenient, though. They didn’t feel very realistic. They just didn’t have the air of coincidence. But that’s fine with me. I still like the story.
Now, the ending. It was totally heartstopping! Again, the ending broke my heart!
Spoiler
I don’t know whom I prefer for Lena to end up with!I thought Alex not remembering Lena was painful enough [I predicted that this would be the scenario in Pandemonium]. But this is tremendously more painful:
Spoiler
for Lena to fall in love with Julian, to finally find happiness again, and then everything shatters—fragments to little pieces. Because Alex is alive. I didn’t know that I would be sad to find that Alex is aliveBig change in Lena though. In the then part, she was still weak, and very depressed, so as I said, I didn’t like those parts. But then in the now part, I love her! She has become strong. She was hardened by the believers and the Wilds. She has become brave and risky. She now understands so many things that she didn’t know—when she was still oblivious, when she was almost cured—especially when it comes to hurt and pain.
I also love the newly introduced character, Julian.
Spoiler
He didn’t take long to be convinced that the cure does no good to anyone. He easily fell in love with Lena, and he didn’t try very hard to stop those feelings, because probably, somewhere inside him, he knows that it’s right to feel that way. I like how he changed Lena for the better. I don’t know why, but I cried harder for him than for Alex. Maybe that means that I prefer him over Alex, but I’m not very sure. His love for Lena felt more heart-wrenching that the one Alex had for her.This is only the second book written by Lauren Oliver that I’ve read, but I think it’s right to conclude that all her books have a very climactic, electrifying and very shocking ending. Blimey, the things that happened in the ending were so fast-paced I was reeling when I finished the book! Oliver’s endings are like sucker punches, actually. But I still love this book, despite the tremendous heartache it caused me. I don’t know why I keep being drawn to painfully sad love stories. Anyway, I can’t wait for the release of [b:Requiem|9593913|Requiem (Delirium, #3)|Lauren Oliver|http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg|14480925]!