Victoria T. (justicepirate) reviewed Pandemonium. Lauren Oliver (Delirium Trilogy 2) on + 350 more book reviews
I didn't care too much for the first book. This one was much better, though at times predictable. Also, I don't understand how a young girl would be able to survive so many of the things that happen in this book, but I guess that is why it is a fiction book.
The story continues from when Lena enters the Wilds after her devastating ending from Delirium, the first book. She constantly reflects on a year and a half of time going between "Then" and "Now" for chapters in this book. It is pretty cool because it builds up and makes sense for how they connect the two together. In this story we see that Lena is weak and meets new people. She wants to get to know them, one is a girl named "Raven" who seems to be in charge of a group of people in the Wilds. Everyone has jobs that they do. Lena has now undertaken a task of watching a guy named Julian. Julian is a bit of a spokesperson for teenagers and "the cure". He has a list of surgeries that he's dealt with, and getting the cure could be dangerous for him.
While reading this book I already guessed what would happen in the end of it, and when I was right, I was so not surprised! Now I am hoping the third book is better because I am finally getting more into the story.
If you are a parent and are concerned with the content in this book, there is nudity, some lust, a few words of bad words (mainly the s word). There is no sex in it.
The story continues from when Lena enters the Wilds after her devastating ending from Delirium, the first book. She constantly reflects on a year and a half of time going between "Then" and "Now" for chapters in this book. It is pretty cool because it builds up and makes sense for how they connect the two together. In this story we see that Lena is weak and meets new people. She wants to get to know them, one is a girl named "Raven" who seems to be in charge of a group of people in the Wilds. Everyone has jobs that they do. Lena has now undertaken a task of watching a guy named Julian. Julian is a bit of a spokesperson for teenagers and "the cure". He has a list of surgeries that he's dealt with, and getting the cure could be dangerous for him.
While reading this book I already guessed what would happen in the end of it, and when I was right, I was so not surprised! Now I am hoping the third book is better because I am finally getting more into the story.
If you are a parent and are concerned with the content in this book, there is nudity, some lust, a few words of bad words (mainly the s word). There is no sex in it.
Mari D. (luv2cnewthings) reviewed Pandemonium. Lauren Oliver (Delirium Trilogy 2) on + 55 more book reviews
For the entirety of the novel the reader flips from now to then. Chapter 1 is now the present Lena Holoway is now Lena Morgan Jones and she daydreams about her one and only love Alex. Oops, love is still illegal here and the now Lena claims to have buried the then Lena.
Onto Chapter 2 thenthe then Lena recalls her solo trek into the Wilds and how Raven found her mostly dead and brought her back to life in a community where Lena learns to grow.
Back to the now Lena, who is living on the right side of the fence in New York City and is now part of the resistance where her only mission is to watch the DFA an organization known as Deliria Free America whose campaign is to push the cure for the Deliria onto younger kids despite negative side effects. We will learn later on that her mission is actually to tail Julian Fineman, a major figurehead for the DFA, as well as the son of its founder.
Unfortunately, that in a nutshell, is Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver. We, the reader, watch the then Lena strengthen herself (because of Raven and certain events) into the now Lena. While spending time with Julian Fineman, the now Lena begins to have feelings for him.
Yet another teen romance with a tiny twist at the end that might make you want to pick up the next book. In spite of this there are small pieces of character development that help propel the novel, like when Lena further thinks on the evils of the DFA: The dangerous are not just the uncured: They are also the different, the deformed, the abnormal. They must also be eradicated. I wonder if Julian realizes this, or whether hes known it all along. (241) Or perhaps what the series is supposed to mean all along: For the first time it occurs to me that this, really, might have been the point of the walls and border, the procedure and the lies: a first squeezing tighter and tighter. It is a beautiful world for the people who get to play the fist. (297) The usual story of power and/or the usual story of the haves and have nots.
Onto Chapter 2 thenthe then Lena recalls her solo trek into the Wilds and how Raven found her mostly dead and brought her back to life in a community where Lena learns to grow.
Back to the now Lena, who is living on the right side of the fence in New York City and is now part of the resistance where her only mission is to watch the DFA an organization known as Deliria Free America whose campaign is to push the cure for the Deliria onto younger kids despite negative side effects. We will learn later on that her mission is actually to tail Julian Fineman, a major figurehead for the DFA, as well as the son of its founder.
Unfortunately, that in a nutshell, is Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver. We, the reader, watch the then Lena strengthen herself (because of Raven and certain events) into the now Lena. While spending time with Julian Fineman, the now Lena begins to have feelings for him.
Yet another teen romance with a tiny twist at the end that might make you want to pick up the next book. In spite of this there are small pieces of character development that help propel the novel, like when Lena further thinks on the evils of the DFA: The dangerous are not just the uncured: They are also the different, the deformed, the abnormal. They must also be eradicated. I wonder if Julian realizes this, or whether hes known it all along. (241) Or perhaps what the series is supposed to mean all along: For the first time it occurs to me that this, really, might have been the point of the walls and border, the procedure and the lies: a first squeezing tighter and tighter. It is a beautiful world for the people who get to play the fist. (297) The usual story of power and/or the usual story of the haves and have nots.
Crystal J. (dorolerium) reviewed Pandemonium. Lauren Oliver (Delirium Trilogy 2) on + 212 more book reviews
I was a huge fan of Delirium, so I ordered Pandemonium pretty much as soon as it was available for preorder. I wasnt sure what to expect from this book, other than the knowledge that Lauren Oliver is a fantastic author and I doubted she could let me down. Of all the YA dystopia out there right now, this is by far my favorite series and this sequel did not let me down.
At the end of Delirium, we werent sure what was happening to Lena, we just knew that she had escaped from the borders of Portland and was wandering around the Wilds, lost and not knowing where she was going. I was reminded of the whole reason Lena was escaping, to be with Alex, and without Alex there she isnt quite sure what to do. Shes lost without him, without someone to help her navigate and remind her what shes fighting for simply by being out there.
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At the end of Delirium, we werent sure what was happening to Lena, we just knew that she had escaped from the borders of Portland and was wandering around the Wilds, lost and not knowing where she was going. I was reminded of the whole reason Lena was escaping, to be with Alex, and without Alex there she isnt quite sure what to do. Shes lost without him, without someone to help her navigate and remind her what shes fighting for simply by being out there.
To read the rest of my review, please visit my blog.
