

"Before starting, readers should turn off their cellphones and wipe their schedules clean, because once they open the book, they won’t be able to stop. Requiem is told from both Lena and Hana's points of view. Regulators infiltrate the borderlands to stamp out the rebels.Īs Lena navigates the increasingly dangerous terrain of the Wilds, her best friend, Hana, lives a safe, loveless life in Portland as the fiancée of the young mayor. Pockets of rebellion have opened throughout the country, and the government cannot deny the existence of Invalids. But the Wilds are no longer a safe haven. With lyrical writing, Lauren Oliver seamlessly interweaves the peril that Lena faces with the inner tumult she experiences after the reappearance of her first love, Alex, the boy she thought was dead. They live side by side in a world that divides them until, at last, their stories converge. This is what they warned me about for all those years: the heavy weight in my chest, the nightmare-fragments that follow me even in the waking life.Īfter rescuing Julian from a death sentence, Lena and her friends fled to the Wilds. Requiem is told from both Lena and Hana's points of view. It bubbles up through the cracks when I'm not paying attention, and pulls me with its greedy fingers. The third and final book in Lauren Oliver’s powerful New York Times bestselling trilogy about forbidden love, revolution, and the power to choose. Read it: please.Since Alex reappeared, resurrected but also changed, twisted, like a monster from one of the ghost stories we used to tell as kids, the past has been finding its way in. Delirium is more than just a book, it is an electrifying collection of surprises, emotions, and imperative thoughts that will change your perspective on a lot more than Lauren Oliver's writing. It drifted easily into every crevice and corner of my mind. This is probably the most beautiful book I have ever read. This reckless, romantic, and heart-breaking finale leaves Lena and the reader side by side in discovery of what love (amor deliria nervosa) is capable of: "It will kill you and save you, both". But who can survive if they care about nothing? What is there to live for? Everyone and everything that she loves is being taken from her – and the only way she knows to save herself is to become fearless, and to distance herself from the people she loves. The third and final book in Lauren Olivers remarkable New York Times bestselling trilogy about forbidden love, revolution. In the electrifying conclusion to the Delirium trilogy, Lena is encasing herself in a fort of stone.

Requiem by Lauren Oliver will suck you into its magnetic grasp and return you with a racing heart and an exploding mind.
