Per­haps the biggest improve­ment was Lena her­self. No more whiny, annoy­ing, inse­cure lit­tle girl. This Lena has been through the fire, got burnt and is fight­ing to sur­vive. What I love is that Lena has grown, become capa­ble, assertive, intel­li­gent and shrewd. There were parts of this book in which I was phys­i­cally cheer­ing her on. What I liked best about the first book is completely gone from this one. First, I really thought the chapter headings being reading from The Book of SHHH and others added a lot of understanding and entertainment to the first book. None of that is in this one.

In Delirium I had an issue with many descriptions that were pointless, this book still went strong on those, but they were masked a bit more successfully under tension and action, so although there was some eye-rolling on my part, it wasn't as consistent as before. If there’s one thing that I learned from Pandemonium, it was that pain is not the end but the beginning, and in the darkest of nights, you’ll find the stars brightest. Maybe you’re thinking “But Alex is so much better than Julian.” Hold your tongue my friend. Let me explain to you why Julian is loveable as well. First, his character wasn’t flat like Alex’s in Delirium. Alex was a whole being, and Julian was just starting to find pieces of himself. I saw how he was changing throughout the book. I delight in how he was towards Lena, how he was distant at first, but at the same time obviously curious. He had a lot to learn and I liked that, through him, Lena was able to share with him her knowledge. It was now Lena’s turn to save someone from her old world. I saw a bigger and better Lena at times that Julian had to rely on her. My feminist side is very glad with the idea that Julian is the one in need of rescuing. With him, Lena was almost invincible, not because of Julian, but because she just was.

Underground, there is also this group of deformed people. They live in hiding to protect themselves from the Zombies, the cured. Most of them were considered as Deliria babies. It was believed that children produced out of love are infected, some of them having abnormal features. Aboveground, they could be executed immediately after birth to prevent the spread of the disease. That’s an interesting word to use. Very interesting. Perhaps you find suffering beautiful? Perhaps you enjoy violence?” The original concept of this book was at first compelling and interesting. The idea that love is a disease that has, in the near future, been cured. The fact that love has been classified as "the most deadly of deadly things" and that the government is sanctioning and actually requiring all citizens to undergo a lobotomy at the age of 18. After which they will be assigned a mate. The original concept is a bit incredible, but I am actually ok with “incredible” as long as it is portrayed in a believable way. And for the most part, it was. As the book progressed however, I kept finding undeniable parallels to Matched and Uglies. The most flagrant one was the time left until Lena's cure which skips all around. When it's down to just seventeen days, her aunt says it's several weeks away. Seventeen days is two and a half weeks, not several. Small things, I know, but it interrupted the flow of a story which was already dragging and not flowing well.

Este libro retoma la historia de Lena Haloway, una joven que vive en un futuro distópico en el que el amor es considerado una enfermedad mortal. Better than book 1, I'll give it that. I was more interested in the plot in this book, I enjoyed the new characters from the Wilds and watching Lena overcome her demons and generally become much stronger. Alright, so maybe my head is still is fine condition. But that was a pretty good representation of what I felt. This book was amazing. If you loved Delirium, you are going to want to eat this one. (Apparently "eat" is above "love" on my emotional scale. I don't see anything wrong with that.) In this sequel, readers will also meet new groups of people. First, the Resistance, the group that Lena now belonged to, which was organized, cunning, and established with a purpose: to take down the government and fight those that promote the cure. They live through strategies, a family scattered in different corners. The resistance is ivy, slowly taking root and spreading. Normally, this would have been a good point. However, even though I was excited to see Li Ping, I wasn’t excited for the two girls to see me naked. Or to even learn that I was naked.

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Lena asks like ONCE the people she ends up with if they heard what happened to Alex. She barely pushes them. She doesn't even mention his name. The girl even heard about it!!! It was so big everyone was talking about it but Lena didn't investigate?!! She doesn't CONTINUE asking other people in the wilds if they heard anything! She doesn't look into it at all! Alex wants to show Lena that her mother is actually alive. He brings her to the Crypts, where people who do not obey the rules stay, to show her that her mother is still alive. When they find her mother's room, they find it empty, with a life-size hole in the wall where the letter 'O' is in the word LOVE. Although Delirium is a dystopian novel, it is first and foremost a love story; it doesn’t pretend to be anything else. At eighteen years old, citizens of the USA legally must undergo a procedure – a “cure” – that will result in the them being unable to love anyone ever again, whether it may be a partner, friend or family. When Alex enters her life, Lena must fight for the right to love whomever she wishes.

The writ­ing in this book matched more to the cal­iber I expect of Oliver. It felt a appro­pri­ate and smooth. In the second timeline, which is set approximately a year after the events of "Delirium," it is revealed that Lena has been captured and is in New York. In this new life, she adopts a false identity and joins a group of Invalids, those who live outside of government control and fight for their freedom. Lena is assigned to carry out a dangerous mission: to assassinate the leader of Deliria-Free America, an anti-deliria organization that promotes compliance with government rules and the eradication of emotions. As you expect, Lena meets a boy and suddenly everything she has ever believed or been made to believe is thrown into disarray. Maybe Love isn't such a bad thing, maybe the powers that be have been lying to them all this time. When Summer and I reached Dolphin Adventure, we found Olivia on duty, feeding the dolphins a breakfast of raw squid and herring. She was wearing her standard Dolphin Adventure bathing suit and her hair was wet, indicating that she’d already been in the tank. Olivia didn’t even bother asking if we wanted to swim. She simply said, “Hop on in, kids! The water’s fine!” However, all three novels are fantastic in their own way and Delirium offers yet another unique look at how a dystopian society could be. It made me want to read even more dystopian literature and I did not feel like I was reading recycled material. I definitely recommend this to people who are already fans of young-adult dystopian literature. And if you haven’t read it before? Do it. You’ll become addicted and emotionally involved in this wonderfully exciting but terrifying genre.I want to discuss the new characters in this book and there are a lot of them, so I just chose the two very important ones. La historia se desarrolla en dos líneas de tiempo paralelas. La primera línea sigue a Lena inmediatamente después de su escape de la comunidad regulada por el gobierno, donde conoció a Alex y descubrió la verdad sobre el amor. En su intento por sobrevivir en el mundo exterior, conocido como el Salvaje (The Wilds), Lena se une a un grupo de resistentes que luchan contra el gobierno opresivo que busca erradicar las emociones humanas.

Lena's characterization, although less than stellar at times, does have its perks. Above all, Lena treasures her family and friends. She is terrified at the thought of losing her best friend, Hana, after her procedure. Lena, like the rest of society, was convinced that love was dangerous and potentially life threatening. After experiencing the effects of the disease firsthand, she comes to the startling realization that love is harmless. Lena was determined to discover the truth, no matter how heartbreaking the truth may be.Okay, Pan­de­mo­nium was a HUGE improve­ment over Delir­ium for me. First of all, the world seemed A LOT more con­sis­tent. The world build­ing was an improve­ment as well. I cannot wait to read Pandemonium (the second novel in the series/trilogy). I’m just sad that I have to wait until 2012! Personally, the most dreadful moment that made me conceive the author’s massage wholly, was the parents’ behaviour towards their children. To put it differently, they were cold and apathetic like robots or even worse. This moment send chills through all my body for the frightful and unbearable thought, that maybe the world that Oliver describes, is not as imaginary as it may seem. You would see two very different Lenas in the book. In the Then chapters, Lena was like a new-born in the Wilds, learning everything from scratch. To her, she was reborn in pain and agony, having nothing but herself. Alex was not able to cross the fence with her, and now all that’s left of their love were her dreams of him. He was but a phantom haunting her every turn. There were times that Lena wished she never met Alex and that they never attempted to escape, but she knew very well that this was what Alex wanted for her: the freedom to live and to love, to have a choice. Lena and her new group, her new family, have gone through so much. It took great energy and perseverance for them to relocate when needed, and receiving supplies from the other side was risky. Lena’s new life was never easy. Now Olivia grew suspicious too. Thankfully, from where she was standing on the catwalk, she couldn’t see too well below the surface of the water, so she hadn’t noticed my nakedness yet either. “You’re not going to see the panda?” she asked.