![]() I read this book in a mere day - I just couldn’t put it down. Words can’t suffice how much better Pandemonium was compared to its predecessor Delirium. I think this is for any age group and anyone who appreciates their freedom of speech and thought, which ultimately this is about. This is such a brilliant book, and as an older person I was surprised how much I enjoyed it. Both story lines are as exciting: following Lena desperately fighting to survive with her fellow resistors as they travel from northern New York state to the south to find warmer climes for the winter and in the alternate timeline where Lena is kidnapped a long with a antideliria advocate and it is their relationship that fascinates here. In the next chapter we are taken back to the moment Lena crossed the border fence and where she had presumed her boyfriend Alex had died. The novel opens with Lena living in New York attending a school there, however it is soon explained that she is part of an undercover group of uncured people who are now forming a resistance. The lead character Lena has really grown, we see her morphing from being a fairly confused girl into a young woman with a purpose, and someone who knows what she believes in. I guess that's the key here, this is a real thriller as well as being YA fantasy/romance novel. I liked Delirium, I loved this.Īgain I don't usually like books which use the alternating chapters of now and then, but here it really worked and I literally galloped through the story as both time lines were equally thrilling. I can’t wait.Īs a sequel it is unusual to surpass a first in a series novel, but for me this did. I am guessing that the author felt that book two of a trilogy didn’t have to stand as a one-off (if you’ve read two out of the three then you will probably complete the trilogy) so she gives us a shock of such magnitude that it makes the reading of book three a must. It was so well written and got me living in Lena’s head so efficiently that I decided to go for book two, Pandemonium. Delirium I could have accepted as a one-off novel. The other thing that struck me was that I had read both books as adventure stories with a love interest, whereas, many had read them as love stories with an adventure interest. ![]() Hopefully, reviewers had assumed that potential readers would not read their reviews of Pandemonium until after reading Delirium. The answer seemed to be lots of spoilers to book one. Wondering how others had reviewed the book without spoilers, I took a sneak peak. Phew, I think I got through that without any spoilers. There is also more action and adventure in this second part.Īnother well written part to the trilogy that I enjoyed. The reader is tasked with wondering what happened in the ‘then’ story to start the ‘now’ story. The main difference in Pandemonium is the double time lines of ‘then’ and ‘now’ which are alternating chapter headings. If you enjoyed the descriptive flow from the author of Lena’s sight, smell, touch, inner feelings, then yet again you will not be disappointed and you will easily live the story through Lena’s eyes, her feelings and her emotions. If you enjoyed, in Delirium, the first-person present tense, with everything seen through Lena, the lead protagonist’s eyes, then Pandemonium will not disappoint. The style of Pandemonium is similar but not exactly the same as in Delirium. So, how do you review book-two of a trilogy without giving away spoilers to book one?Ĭarefully is the answer. ![]() ![]() Entre las series de televisión que sigue, están House, The Wire, Ley y Orden, The Office o Gossip Girl. Sus gustos musicales son igual de variopintos y lo mismo escucha música country como a Kings of Leon. Entre sus autores preferidos se encuentran Henry James, Edith Wharton, Gabriel García Márquez, C. Se considera curiosa por naturaleza y disfruta probando cosas nuevas. Además de escribir constantemente, le gusta leer, dibujar, cocinar, viajar, bailar y cantar sus canciones favoritas. Luego trabajó como asistente editorial en la ciudad de los rascacielos, donde continúa viviendo en el barrio de Brooklyn.Sus aficiones son muy variadas. Estudió Literatura y Filosofía en la Universidad de Chicago y completó sus estudios con un master en Bellas Artes en la Universidad de Nueva York. Empezó a escribir siendo una niña y afirma que cuando terminaba una historia le apremiaba el deseo de iniciar una secuela para no desprenderse de los personajes que había creado su imaginación. Lauren Oliver proviene de una familia de escritores en la que pasarse horas delante del ordenador es algo habitual.
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