Title: Requiem (Delirium #3)
Author: Lauren Oliver
Genre/s: Young Adult, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Romance
Synopsis:They have tried to squeeze us out, to stamp us into the past.But we are still here.And there are more of us every day.Now an active member of the resistance, Lena has been transformed. The nascent rebellion that was under way in Pandemonium has ignited into an all-out revolution in Requiem, and Lena is at the center of the fight.After rescuing Julian from a death sentence, Lena and her friends fled to the Wilds. But the Wilds are no longer a safe haven—pockets of rebellion have opened throughout the country, and the government cannot deny the existence of Invalids. Regulators now infiltrate the borderlands to stamp out the rebels, and as Lena navigates the increasingly dangerous terrain, her best friend, Hana, lives a safe, loveless life in Portland as the fiancée of the young mayor.Maybe we are driven crazy by our feelings.Maybe love is a disease, and we would be better off without it.But we have chosen a different road.And in the end, that is the point of escaping the cure: We are free to choose.We are even free to choose the wrong thing.Requiem is told from both Lena’s and Hana’s points of view. The two girls live side by side in a world that divides them until, at last, their stories converge.
My Thoughts:
In this highly anticipated novel of 2013, Lena
will take you again into the Wilds among with some of our favorite members of
the Resistance in their last fight for freedom and for their rights to live in
a world where love exists. This is the emotional finale that will conclude the
Delirium Trilogy.
With alternating POV, Lena and Hana will show you what is
currently happening in their life. After rescuing Julian in Pandemonium, Lena,
among with the other members of the Resistance, set on a journey away from New
York City. Things are getting dangerous, they’re not safe in the Wilds anymore
especially now that the Cured are now sending army troops to hunt and kill
them. But you know what they say when people’s lives are being threatened, they
will learn how to fight and that’s what they did.
Meanwhile, Hana is planning her wedding with Fred Hargrover,
the Mayor’s son and soon-to-be Mayor of Portland. But something happened that
made her question if the cure had work on her and if she was really making the
right decision to marry Fred. So she conducted her own investigation and that’s
how she found out about the anomaly regarding Fred’s first wife, the Incident
in the Crypts, the death of the Mayor and the true nature of Fred Hargrover.
Will she still have enough time to cancel the wedding or will she suffer the
consequences of being inquisitive for life?
On the first few parts of Lena’s story, I felt disconnected
to her because she was a bit confused and distracted with all the Julian and
Alex stuff. I mean, I understand how she felt, when your past and your present
collides, confusion and uncertainty is inevitable but she needed to pull
herself together in order for her to fight and I’ll always prefer the strong
Lena over the emotional Lena in this story.
There are a lot of death here, a lot of reunion, betrayals
and secrets that are finally revealed. The end of this book was not what I
expected and it might not be the closure that I needed but the last few
paragraphs was so brilliant that I’m still pondering about it until now. If Lauren
Oliver’s purpose for that is to make me think then she did an awesome job with
it.
Overall, Requiem is an awesome read to everyone who acquired the amor deliria nervosa and are not afraid to show it. And to everyone who haven’t read this book yet, “take down the walls” of doubt and read this series now.
My Rating
