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Pandemonium
by Lauren Oliver
So, while I was reading this I kept getting it confused with the other dystopian YA novels I've read in the last year, like Matched and Divergent. About three or four chapters in, I realized that I had actually enjoyed Delirium, unlike both Matched and Divergent, and had myself a decent time. Also, it helped that the novel got more exciting.
Um, I thought the romance with Julian was really well done and obviously Romeo-and-Juliet-like, especially since his dad is like LEADER OF THE CURED or whatever. But maybe I just totally buy into the trope of falling-in-love-with-your-fellow-hostage. Whatever the case was, I thoroughly enjoyed myself, and actually did not see the ending coming! I was too into the Julian-and-Lena plot, I think. But, um, wtf??? I'm of the general mind that characters who die should stay dead, and this seems like ALEX II: REVENGE OF THE ALEX. Clearly he is not the same Alex as before. I think I'm just going to call him Darth Alex from now on, since that is what he seems to be.
Baaaaaasically, I think Lena and Julian should get it on and Darth Alex should get stabbed for the cause or something, and I can't believe this turned into a freaking love triangle -- one of the characters should be DEAD for god's sake. I'M SO FUCKING SICK OF LOVE TRIANGLES IN THESE BOOKS. I guess the third book will be Lena trying to figure out who she loves more! The reanimated, apparently evil corpse of her ex-boyfriend or New Hot Boyfriend! I suppose I'll be reading it.
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I was SUPER not into the chapters where Lena was talking about "then", like what she did after she left Portland. I think it was okay at first, when she was describing her first month or so in the Wild, but then it got rapidly boring and dismal. I was way more into the "now" plot -- her living in New York, undercover, and getting kidnapped and that love affair with Julian, WHICH I AM TOTALLY INTO. HIT THAT, LENA. HE IS WAYYYY BETTER THAN ALEX.Um, I thought the romance with Julian was really well done and obviously Romeo-and-Juliet-like, especially since his dad is like LEADER OF THE CURED or whatever. But maybe I just totally buy into the trope of falling-in-love-with-your-fellow-hostage. Whatever the case was, I thoroughly enjoyed myself, and actually did not see the ending coming! I was too into the Julian-and-Lena plot, I think. But, um, wtf??? I'm of the general mind that characters who die should stay dead, and this seems like ALEX II: REVENGE OF THE ALEX. Clearly he is not the same Alex as before. I think I'm just going to call him Darth Alex from now on, since that is what he seems to be.
Baaaaaasically, I think Lena and Julian should get it on and Darth Alex should get stabbed for the cause or something, and I can't believe this turned into a freaking love triangle -- one of the characters should be DEAD for god's sake. I'M SO FUCKING SICK OF LOVE TRIANGLES IN THESE BOOKS. I guess the third book will be Lena trying to figure out who she loves more! The reanimated, apparently evil corpse of her ex-boyfriend or New Hot Boyfriend! I suppose I'll be reading it.