Lena had her heroic moments but it was always with some help.
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To the shock of the Invalids they actually are venturing out from behind their massive walls and extracting their heads from the sand to push back against the encroaching Invalids.Īs Lena becomes more and more confused about her warring feelings for Julian and Alex, their lives become a series of strategic battles and all-out bloody wars. As their existence became known to the Cureds finally in Pandemonium the regulators start to take strides to eradicate all Invalids from existence. In Requiem we follow Lena and her pack of Invalids (including her two confusing and equally hot boy toys) across the country as they search for a place to call their own. The love story of Alex and Lena or Julian and Lena was there, of course, but it wasn’t the most important aspects of the book. In Requiem the focus was more on the building to a final stand between the Invalids and “Zombies”. The book did not really give much detail as to what happened in the last books except when it was pertinent so it wasn’t like other books that give a refresher course at the beginning of the each book so you can make sure to be caught up.
I was a little fuzzy when I finally got a copy from the library (it took FOREVER… seriously), but after a while I remembered what I had read in the first two books. I had read Delirium and Pandemonium some time ago. It was interesting and it made me read all the way to the end and that’s more than enough for me. Overall impression: I liked it quite a bit, actually. I could have done without the bottom half of that page. It felt like the author was talking directly to me and it shattered some of the atmosphere, certainly broke the spell of fiction. There are a couple of paragraphs at the very bottom of the last page written in a voice that didn’t feel like Lena’s. The ending: not the actual ending but the writing itself. I felt like she was being introduced back at a time when there were other more important things to worry about and that bugged me. Then exactly half of the third and final book is told from Hana’s perspective which I didn’t need. I had accepted that she’s just not part of the picture anymore. I felt like I had spent the entire second book wondering where Hana was and by the end of Pandemonium, I was sorta over her. That Hana was only now being mentioned. Hana eventually turned up SOMEWHERE in this story, which leads me to my main objection about this book:
I was really expecting Julian to end like a certain character in the Uglies books “Zane” and it was a pleasant surprise when it didn’t. I mentioned in my Delirium review that a huge chunk of these books seems to have been “inspired” by The Uglies trilogy by Scott Westerfeld and while that continues to be true I liked that she veered off from what I expected in a key point in the story. I don’t mean to say immature because I don’t think that, I just think she has a problem with overreacting and behaving childishly in some situations. Lena being called out on her mistakes and faults I think Lena’s worst quality is that she can be whiny and childish a lot of the time. As always, the defining quality of this book was how gripping it is.
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Lauren Oliver really redeemed herself in this book it was full of action for the most part and I felt like the story progressed really well. First things first: THE COVER CHANGE!! why do authors change the cover in the very last book of a series? WHY? It makes me not want to display the books on my shelves and that makes me feel guilty about the books feeling left out.
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