Reading Response #2: Pandemonium

Reading Response #2: Pandemonium

Pandemonium

By Lauren Oliver

I’ve recently started the sequel to Delirium and it is everything I thought it would be and then some. (SPOILER ALERT IF YOU HAVEN’T READ THE FIRST BOOK AND PLAN ON IT, THEN DON’T READ THIS. IF NOT, CONTINUE.) At the end of Delirium Lena and Alex decide to sneak into the Wilds and leave their old life in the past. Why? Because Lena had finally got caught and raided and saw the true colors of what the government was really doing. So they escaped last minute, with gunshots and car races, cop cars everywhere. Lena made it into the Wilds, but Alex didn’t. She believes he is dead. In this installment of the Delirium trilogy it goes back and forth from Now and Then. Stating her life in the wild and what she has to do now to continue her life acting as if she’s cured. When she entered the Wilds she was half dead, and was saved by her new found “friends” and became a new person, “New Lena” as she calls herself. What keeps Lena going even though she’s miles away from home, is just the thought of Alex still being alive. Even though it seems as if everyone including herself doesn’t believe it. It’s killing me to know if Alex is alive. Or if Hannah did indeed get cured. So many questions unanswered, I have to continue reading. This is definitely becoming one of my favorite trilogies, besides Fifty Shades of Grey of course.

“Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever.”
― Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium