** PLOT SPOILER IF YOU HAVEN'T READ DELIRIUM!
Alex and I are lying together on a blanket in the backyard of 37 Brooks. The trees look larger and darker than usual. The leaves are almost black, knitted so tightly together they blot out the sky.
With Alex's help, Lena escaped Portland, Maine; Alex did not. Lena found herself 60 miles southwest of Portland, near Rochester, New Hampshire. She's half-dead, fevered, bruised and broken.
Lena is saved by a group living in a free zone. Raven, now 21 years old, came to live in the Wilds when she was 15.
"Everything you were, the life you had, the people you knew...dust...There is no before. There is only now, and what comes next."
Lena finds herself lost without Alex.
Love, the deadliest of all deadly things.
Love, it kills you.
Alex.
Both when you have it...
Alex.
And when you don't.
Alex.
Overcome with grief, she struggles to figure out how to live in this new life without Alex.
Alex was the one who understood things here. He could have built up this collapsed street for me, turned it into a place of sense and order. He was going to lead me through the wilderness. With him, I would have been okay.
Lena soon finds herself in Brooklyn, New York. She is now Lena Morgan Jones. Her mission: watch and blend in with the Deliria-Free America (DFA). She is told to keep a close eye on Julian Fineman, son of DFA founder Thomas Fineman. At the March 23 rally, Lena receives strict orders to watch Julian.
"Don't take your eyes off him, no matter what...
No matter what, okay?"
Lena is captured by Scavengers, people who don't stand for anything, people who want to destroy everything. They also capture Julian. Lena and Julian are forced to work together to survive. Secrets are revealed.
You. Must. Escape.
Pandemonium is even more exciting than Delirium! In the end, Lena is faced with a shocking revelation. Unfortunately, readers will have to wait until Lauren Oliver finishes the third book.
Rating: 10 out of 10 stars
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