It was all about biding time until we can wrap things up in book three. Ultimately, Pandemonium felt very much like that second-book-in-a-trilogy filler book. Although I am really curious to see how the story progresses, I was missing that big *BANG* of an ending because I wasn't shocked or shaken. Where did that come from? Pandemonium does end on a huge cliffhanger, but it didn't totally wow me for the sole reason that I saw it coming.
With Julian, I felt like Lena just shared two nights with him in a prison cell and one night in a bed and then suddenly they were head over heels for each other. They shared poetry, adventure, stories, memories. They had cute scenes where they fell in love. In Delirium, Lena and Alex had 'moments'. but there wasn't that sweet, passionate, slow-brewing romance that we had in Delirium. They had like 5 half-mumbled conversations throughout the whole book and suddenly they're in love? Okay, they saved each others' lives once.
I feel like there wasn't even a falling in love phase Lena just woke up one day and decided she loved Julian. If you ask me, she only "loves" him due to 1) a lack of options and 2) she so desperately misses Alex and wants that emotional closeness that she's clinging onto the first new guy her age that comes along. And honestly, I don't even know why Lena thinks she loves Julian. The author didn't make me fall in love with him. To be blunt: it was boring.And my next big problem is Julian. The first part of the book is just a bunch of travelling, waiting, meeting a few new people, more travelling, clawing through the Wilds, waiting in some sort of underground holding cell, more waiting, a bit of talking. My first problem is that I feel like nothing happens until the last 50 pages. It is interesting to be able to compare and contrast Lena from then and Lena now, and see how she grows and changes.I have two big problems with Pandemonium. At first I didn't really like all the jumping back and forth, but I quickly grew accustomed to it. Finally, about halfway through the book, things started to pick up, and at least become more interesting, but at the end of the day, I'm still not crazy about the book.The story switches between two different time periods: "then" (immediately after book two) and "now" (a few months later). It took me like two days to get through 150 pages. That would totally ruin it for me… Read moreīook Nook - Young Adult book reviews Pandemonium and I have a rocky relationship.
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I can only hope the sudden reappearance of Alex doesn’t make for a book full of love-triangle teen-angst whining.
In Requiem, I want to see Lena take charge. In this book, she was able and willing to work with the resistance to gradually destabilize and take the down the government–only problem was, she spent the entire novel being manipulated by the resistance and almost ended up costing Julian his life. In Delirium, she was a brainwashed fool who only slowly came around to realize the truth about her society. The action distracted me from the flaws.I’m hoping to see a completely independent Lena in the final book of this trilogy. I didn’t feel them as much because the book’s plot was more interesting. We get a better glimpse of the way the government controls the masses and what their plans are for the future.While this totalitarian US is still a bit unrealistic–I mean, how does the US seal its borders and become completely self-sufficient without any serious economic repercussions?–and the whole “love is a disease” thing remains far-fetched, the issues with the premise this time around were less tangible. The freaky, Nazi-reminiscent way the people rallied, brainwashed, behind false ideals made the society seem a lot more realistic than it was in Delirium. Lena was more active in this book, which made her a better protagonist. A lot of new characters were introduced, and all of them were fairly interesting. A lot more stuff happened in this novel than in its prequel, and for that, I was thankful.
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