Pandemonium (Delirium #2)

On the brink of death, crawling through the dirt on her hands and knees, Lena has lost everything. Alex was dead, she saw them kill him, the red blooming over his shirt. Just as she is about to die, Raven, an Invalid, saves her. They nurse her back to health and teach her the ways of the Wild.She pushes the thought of Alex and the rest of her past life away, push, push, push. The old Lena is dead, the new Lena has just been born.

Pandemonium is written in two different times, then and now. Then as in the days just after Alex's death. Now as what she is now and her new self. The way this book is written is quite interesting as while she is living her life in New York she flashes back to the past where she was being reborn in to what she is now.

This book is way more exciting yet it feels lonely without Alex and Julian can't fill all of this space. This book is full of hardships, resisting, forgetting the past and living in the now. The past is dead, there is only now and the future.

Oh. My. God! This book is awesome!
1. The characters developed a lot. There were new characters, and old ones disappeared... Sometimes I missed them, it seemed like I wasn't reading Delirium #2 but Pandemonium #1... Still, the new characters were as good as the 'old' characters.
2. The story was great. It was told in Now-Then style. I had to get used to that, because you were reading 2 stories at once, but once I got used to it, it was easy to read, and it kept the stories interesting.
3. The writing style is great. In all of Oliver's books you can see that her writing style is great. It's easy to read, but it doesn't make you feel like you're reading a MG book. There weren't lots of mistakes and editing errors it in, which was super because they always keep on annoying me...
4. The ending is torture! I need to read Requiem NOW! This is the worst type of cliffhanger, the time I have to wait is so long. I might need to invent a time machine...
5. the cover is gorgeous! It represents the book very well. But I can't really explain it, because that'd be too spoilery
6. page was superb! It wasn't too quick so I did not have to re-read parts of the book, but it wasn't too slow either.


It's not easy to find a book you love as much as this one! A page-turner filled with romance, action, friendship and lots of problems.

I will stop reviewing this book right now, because I just can't really tell you about it without spoiling... *sigh*
Go read this book now. It's worth your time!!

I loved how different this book was from the first book in the series, Delirium! It was completely unexpected and completely opposite of the first book!

Lena is in the Wilds all by herself. Alex is gone and Lena has no idea what happened to him. Well, she may have an idea but she doesn't want to think about it. She is hurt and struggling in the cruel outside world until Raven finds her and takes her to the Homestead. There Lena gets well and meets other Invalids. There, Lena becomes part of the resistance.

Lena is much harder in this book. She is angry too. Angry at her mom, angry at Alex, angry at the Regulators. This makes her a much more interesting character. I really connected with her in this book instead of the weak and wimpy Lena of the last book.

Lena is told she must watch Julian Fineman, the son of the DFA leader, Thomas Fineman. Julian hasn't had the cure yet due to an illness but is going to do it at the upcoming rally. Lena is told to watch him during the rally no matter what and she does. However, this leads to her kidnapping.

Throughout the book we are with Lena and Julian as they are first held hostage by the Scavengers, then escape and flee through the tunnels and finally towards the end where I won't say anything else to avoid spoilers. Through the book, their relationship grows and while Lena doesn't forget Alex, she comes to have feelings for Julian.

I thought Pandemonium had a lot more action that Delirium. It was more on edge and suspensful. I read the last 200 pages in one day because I simply couldn't put it down. I loved the relationship between Lena and Raven and Lena and Julian. Their characters were all well-developed and I could connect to each one of them.

The book takes you back and forth from the present to "then" when Lena is with Raven and the group. "Then" consists of their time at the first homestead and then their trek to the next homestead. It leaves a lot left unanswered though like how do Lena, Raven and Tack get back into New York and infiltrate the Regulator's world. However, I am hoping maybe that the third (and last) book will go into this a little more. This is my only very small complaint!

The ending leaves you screaming for more! I won't divulge what happens but as soon as Book 3 is out, I am reading it to find out how Lena is going to get herself out of this mess!