After reading and falling in love with Delirium, I thought that Pandemonium would never be able to top the first book. Lauren Oliver most certainly exceeded my expectations! Delirium had such a dramatic ending that got readers hanging on to each and every last word, so Pandemonium was full of action, drama, and suspense from the beginning to end. I personally think that the way Lauren Oliver writes is amazing. I love reading dystopian books because I'm always puzzled and simply in awe by how authors have the imagination and creativity to create another world with such dynamic characters that rebel against society and fight for what they believe in. Lauren Oliver is one of my favorite authors and I admire her because she brought Delirium and Pandemonium, two mind blowing books, to life. The whole "now" and "then" style was a great way to write the book because it gave readers information like clues, in pieces, that is part of a bigger picture. In Pandemonium, a lot of new characters are introduced and a fierce Lena who fights for what she believes in is born. The ending of Pandemonium was very shocking and suspenseful. I am eagerly awaiting Requiem, the third book in the Delirium trilogy, that is releasing in February 2013. I rate Pandemonium 5/5 stars because there's always new, exciting twists that you would would never see coming.
Summary
Lena is half-dead and stranded in the Wilds. It was always her dream to be in the Wilds, but a big part of her picture perfect dream is missing. Alex. She doesn't know whether he is dead or alive. Lena just does what Alex told her before he was shot...Run. She runs and runs, past the border and into the Wilds until she collapses. Nothing matters anymore, because Alex is nowhere to be found. Raven finds Lena passed out and generously takes her in at the homestead. Love makes life beautiful, but it also makes it painful. Life at the homestead with the Invalids is worlds apart from the perfect, neat life inside the borders. Everything is scarce and rationed here. There is barely any food- not nearly enough with the hard labor everyone does. After a week of resting and recovering, Lena starts learning the hard ways of the Wilds. She does the chores Raven tells her to do and tries to keep herself occupied, so she doesn't think about Alex. Lena forgets the life she had before and just focuses on surviving. After finally getting an assignment to watch the DFA (Deliria-Free America) for the Resistance from Raven and Tack, Lena goes undercover as Lena Morgan Jones and watches Julian Fineman, the youth president of the DFA. She does her job-watches, observes, and blends. One day at a DFA rally, Scavengers, uncureds who want the world to be destroyed, attack and capture Julian. Lena goes after Julian, so they capture her too. Now Julian and Lena are stuck together, but Lena's mission was to watch Julian under any circumstance. They fight together and try to escape. Along the way, Lena and Julian fall in love. But what if the whole thing was planned by people you trust? Read the book to find out!
-Sneha
I love the Book Summary at the back of Pandemonium, so I had to include it in my review because it goes so well with the story. :)
pushing aside thoughts of Alex,
pushing aside thoughts of Hana and my old school,
push,
push,
push,
like Raven taught me to do.
The old life is dead.
But the old Lena is dead too.
I buried her.
I left her beyond a fence, behind a wall of smoke and flame.
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