With a movie trilogy in the pipeline too, you'd better get reading! - Cosmopolitan on REQUIEM Lena Haloway's journey will have readers breathlessly turning the pages. We loved the first two books, and spring sees the publication of the final instalment. Independent on Sunday on PANDEMONIUM The new Hunger Games. Bella on PANDEMONIUM In the same mode as Suzanne Collins in her Hunger Games trilogy, Oliver, too, posits a feisty, physically able heroine, giving as good as she gets, in a fast-paced YA thriller: this trend is a welcome one. Now we just have to wait for the final episode in the trilogy. With echoes of Brave New World, we catch up with young heroine Lena as she attempts to survive in the dangerous Wilds. Stylist Amazing, unputdownable! Grazia We're big fans of Lauren Oliver and this is the emotionally charged follow-up to last year's futuristic love story DELIRIUM. PANDEMONIUM by Lauren Oliver HarperTeen Follow In this electrifying follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Delirium, hearts break, tempers flare, and a simmering resistance effort explodes into a full-blown revolution. Heat A dystopian Romeo and Juliet story that deserves to be as massive as Twilight. Devour it, then go and give all your friends a big hug. A thoughtful, exciting and moving story that reminds us just how important love is. I would recommend it to anyone who likes a good young adult dystopian romance.Fast paced and consistently poignant, this tale quickly becomes hypnotically addictive. I thoroughly enjoyed this novel it kept me enthralled and the epic cliff-hanger made me dive directly into Pandemonium. You get the feeling that the characters are friends of yours and you’re reading their story rather than reading the story of a stranger. Oliver’s writing style was descriptive and flowing she definitely understands the audience she’s writing for. With certain events and incidents in the novel, she grows from them, developing her understanding of the world and her mind as a character, not only finding herself, but secrets kept hidden. I think the most remarkable character development is Lena herself and it’s not a complete 360 in ten seconds flat and she’s not a whiney female lead. The character development in the novel is astounding, with characters actually growing and changing as the story progresses. Lauren Oliver has a way with words that just sucks you into Lena’s world, you sort of wish you were part of it and at the same time you wish you were safely tucked in your own world reading words on a page. In a dystopian society how is she meant to not only let her love blossom but hide it from her family, a family who is bent on keeping Lena safe, secure and happy, all without the Deliria. With ninety-five days until her cure, it happens, Lena falls in love. It’s then that Lena sees Alex Sheathes, a man she mistakes as an Invalid and in a world where Love is unthinkable, it happens. But with the stress of the evaluation, she makes a huge mistake just before a stampede of cows runs through the facility, ruining her evaluation. With Lena’s cure looming, she has her evaluation, an evaluation that will place her with the most suitable partner. But the Government with its Handbook (The Safety, Health and Happiness Handbook), The Book of Shhh as Lena calls it, have found a cure for the disease, a cure for love. Seventeen-year-old Lena Haloway has been brought up, in the fenced off city of Portland, Maine, to believe that Love is indeed a disease, Amor Deliria Nervosa. In Lauren Oliver’s Delirium, the first novel in the Delirium trilogy, that world is a reality. Now imagine that world to be fenced off cities in the United States. Imagine a world where Love was a disease. Delirium trilogy #1 A review by Elizabeth Manthos
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