Pandemonium. Lauren Oliver (Delirium Trilogy 2)
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Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Hardcover
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Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Hardcover
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.
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