While reading Pandemonium you may experience lots of crying, shocks and stress. With an action-filled ending and an enormous cliffhanger, Lauren Oliver shows us once again that if love is not a disease, then her book most certainly are. Lena begins to heal and Julian begins to realise that love is not a disease, and if it is, maybe it's a disease worth having. And during their time together they learn many disturbing things about the DFA and the Resistance but they also learn to love. During a DFA's rally both Lena and Julian are kidnapped. Lena is given the task of keep watch on the head of the movement's son, Julian. But in short Lena, Tack and Raven are in New York on a mission for the Resistance and for that they must observe the actions of the DFA (Deliria-Free America). I don't want to say much about the plot because I don't want to take a lot of its impact away.
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At first I didn't want to like him (similar situation as Lena) but with time it just isn't possible to deny it anymore, he is great! (Sorry, Alex!) Julian, the new love interest, is sweet and swoon-worthy. The lenghts that the Resistance is willing to go to take charge are also a great theme in this book. Raven, the one in charge, appears much more often and we learn a lot about her but I wasn't that a big of fan until the last few pages. We didn't find out a lot about them which didn't bothered me that much. The new characters like Tack, Sarah and the others who live in the Wilds weren't that fascinating to me. Furthermore her mourning is so real, Oliver describes it really well, also the transition to a new lover and new beginning is so subtle, which only makes the character the even more realistic. She changes and matures in Pandemonium, the chance is almost tangible. Another advantage of the then and now strategy is that Lena's growth is even more noticeable. We are introduced to a lot of new characters. Furthermore Oliver's writing is one of the best there is! It flows so that you can read hundreds of page without even realising it. The alternation between the then and now only made this book the more interesting and enthralling.
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It felt like a marathon to get to the last word (and what a last word indeed!). The book doesn't waste any time in making you wonder: what the hell? So it's no wonder that after reading the first few pages, it seems you can't finish this book fast enough. The book begins in the present time, a few months after the escape and Lena finds herself sleeping during a school lesson. The book is divided in two parts: now and then. Is it even possible for Lauren Oliver to write a bad book? It's really hard for me to write an objectively review for Pandemonium, since Lauren Oliver is one of my favorite authors, ever! Even though Before I Fall and Delirium were ,to say the least, perfect Pandemonium surprisingly surpasses both of them.