I would even go so far as to say I didn’t understand Delirium correctly the first time I read it. Or perhaps I should say, after reading a gazillion other dystopias in the interim, I appreciated it much better. Since Pandemonium (book two) is a sequel to Delirium (book one), I reread the latter before starting on Pandemonium, and I have to say, I liked it much better the second time. I still have the smallest bit of hope of everything ending the way I expected from the beginning of my reading this trilogy.Įnter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.Note: There are necessarily spoilers for Delirium in this review, but no significant disclosures for Pandemonium I am still looking forward to the final book as there was a rather unexpected event at the end that I cannot wait to see unravel. I must admit, though, that I was a little disappointed when things didn’t turn out the way I had hoped they might. Verdict: I enjoyed reading this book more than my reread of Delirium as it was full of twists and turns. Both when you have it…and when you don’t. Quote: Love, the deadliest of all deadly things. Some instances I was still rather unforgiving of Raven even as Lena accepted how things are. However, there are times when Raven makes a decision that Lena doesn’t agree with and, as we are reading through Lena’s perspective, the feelings transfer to us. I like her because she gets things done and helped Lena when she needed it most. I hoped through the entire novel that Lena and Julian would just end up as friends, and that some miracle would take place to allow Alex to enter back into Lena’s lifeĬharacter: Raven is a girl from the wilds, leader of the pack. She tries to never think of Alex, which helps her move on, but I cannot say I like Julian as much as I do Alex. Her feelings start to grow for him as Lena has accepted that Alex is no longer in her life. Relationship: Lena is thrown together with a new boy, Julian. By the end of the book, Lena has changed again and again, before finally discovering not so much who she is but who she wants to be. She first grieves for Alex, then starts learning the ways of the Wilds, and finally becomes part of the resistance. It certainly wasn’t quite as I expected it to be while reading the first book, but by keeping the reader guessing we keep reading.Ĭharacter Development: Lena changes a lot in this book. Plot: The story line allows us to find out what Lena does after her daring escape, and how she manages to survive in the Wilds without Alex while also letting the reader see how Lena’s life has moved on –both from Portland and the Wilds. I will admit choosing to reveal things in this fashion keeps things interesting, suspenseful, and skipping past time in a way that a chronological telling could not as easily do. I likely would have preferred the story to be told chronologically, but this does keep you guessing and anticipating. Writing Style: This novel flips between “Now” where Lena is living in a city under a different name with forged papers and “Then” when she had first escaped into the Wilds, picking up shortly after the end of Delirium. She spends some of her time at the “homestead” near Rochester, New Hampshire, and part of it in New York state. Setting: Still in the United States, but Lena has now been invalidated. This riveting, brilliant novel crackles with the fire of fierce defiance, forbidden romance, and the sparks of a revolution about to ignite. In this electrifying follow-up, Lena on a dangerous course that hurtles through the unregulated Wilds and into the heart of a growing resistance movement. I left her beyond a fence, behind a wall of smoke and flame.
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