I’m pushing aside
the memory of my nightmare,
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.
Lauren Oliver delivers an electrifying follow-up to her acclaimed New York Times bestseller, Delirium. This riveting, brilliant novel crackles with the fire of fierce defiance, forbidden romance, and the sparks of a revolution about to ignite.
This book has to be by far the best second book of a series that I have ever read. Sure this is like the third or fourth book that is a second book in a trilogy that I have ever read but by far it has to be the best. I mean even Katniss from Catching Fire can't compare to Lena in Pandemonium.
The character development! Never have I ever seen a main character transform and blossom so much within one story. In Delirium I felt like she was finally discovering love, but in this book she was discovering her will to live. Maybe its just me, but I feel as though Julian's and Lena's love started out so much more like a burning candle than a spark like described in the book. Maybe its just me but I was completely in love with Julian, so much more than I was with Alex. To me however, Alex is dead and buried so I have absolutely no problem with Lena moving on with her life and I was rooting for her and Julian. But that ending broke me. If you wish to not be spoiled just skip my Goodreads review because I wrote it immediately after I finished the book and clearly I was not as calm as I am now.
** spoiler alert ** NOOOOOOOO!!!!!! No, no, no, no, no! How dare you! How can you do this to us? How can you break our heart in book one and then mend it all through book two, then in the ending just completely break it again. Oh come on! I don't want a love triangle! I want Julian and Lena's love story not Lena, Julian and Alex! How dare you give me a cliffhanger. Also fuck you Alex, you are supposed to be dead. Dead and gone, so Lena can recover and prosper. I cant wait to see how in the hell you survived. Like seriously!
So as anyone can tell I was clearly frustrated with the ending. And what disappoints me is I have been checking out reviews for the third and final instalment Requiem and most if not all say that it sucked as an ending. Apparently its so bad that people say they were cheated out of a final book. This makes me scared to read Requiem. I don't want to be disappointed from this trilogy. But, to be honest, I want to experience my own emotions with this book, whether or not those feelings will be rage or disappointment.
Pandemonium is my favorite so far with the trilogy and it was so much better than the first book. It has been a while since I read Delirium so I was a little confused with the chapter set up but after a couple chapters I got the hang of it. Lena truly became one of those kick ass heroines for me in this book and she was definitely developed a lot more. I am very thankful for Lauren giving her the strength that she needed for the book, because without Lena I don't think this book would have been as good as I describe it to be.
I hope that Requiem wont completely break my opinion of Lena. Fingers crossed.
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