Requiem (Delirium Trilogy, 3)

Read this and other reviews at [...] *Disclaimer: this is NOT my best review, not even close.* I find it hard to review books/series that are this amazing. The story speaks for itself and no words I say will serve any real justice to the story. Just know, the words, the characters and the storyline, they moved me. This is a fantastic series. {{This is the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you.}} This was one of my most highly anticipated releases for 2013, and it did not disappoint. That being said, it wasn't the best in the series, but it was amazing, nonetheless. Lauren Oliver's ability to craft words never ceases to amaze me. She's really almost in a league of her own, when it comes to the lyrical nature of her writing. It's insane how well she can weave a story and suck you in. Even though Requiem wasn't my favorite book in the Delirium series, it still blows most other books out of the water. {{Direction, like time, is a general thing, deprived of boundaries and borders. It is an endless process of interpretation and reinterpretation, doubling back and adjusting.}} Requiem picks up basically where Pandemonium ends, which if you've read Pandemonium, you know there was quite the revelation at the end. Very shocking. And exciting. But left a lot of questions. I am going to be incredibly brief on the overall plot, because well, I hate spoilers, as you already know, and really, I think this, as the others in the series, should be read blindly. I didn't read teasers, excerpts, or any other reviews or quotes before going into this. I wanted it all fresh in my brain. {{"You know you can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes, right?"}} There were so many changes taking place in The Wilds. The Resistance refused to be stomped out, but The Cureds weren't going down without a fight either. {{We wanted the freedom to love. We wanted the freedom to choose. Now we have to fight for it.}} This book, unlike the others, is told from dual POVs. Half of the story is from Lena, and the other half is from Hana. I thought this was great because it gave us a chance to experience life on both sides of the fence/wall. We saw what was happening in The Wilds because of Lena, but we also got the chance to see life from a Cured point of view. {{I like seeing the Wilds this way: skinny, naked, not yet clothed in spring. But reaching, too, grasping and growing, full of want and a thirst for sun that gets slaked a little bit more every day. Soon the Wilds will explode, drunk and vibrant.}} While there weren't necessarily many unexpected plot twists in the story, there were lots of heart-stopping moments. A lot of them I can't touch on without giving away vital parts of the story, so unfortunately, I have to be super vague. I think most readers' issue with this story was the realism to it. For that, I applaud Ms. Oliver. I think she wrote what truly should have happened, even though, at times, it wasn't easy to read. {{"And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me."}} When I read the end, I cried. I had goose bumps, and tears were streaming down my face. It's not that the ending was necessarily sad. I guess, for me, it was sad knowing it was the end of an amazing series, but more than that, I cried because it was just so awesome. I will say, in retrospect, I do think the end felt a touch rushed, but even so, while there was enough resolution, there's still plenty left to your imagination. There was nothing overly tidy about the ending. It just was. And it worked. And was so beautiful. {{He who jumps may fall, but he may also fly. It's time to jump.}} I am looking forward to reading the rest of the short stories in this series; so far, I've only read Hana, which totally threw me for a loop. I also cannot wait to see what Lauren writes next. She's up there as one of my favorite authors, and I will, no doubt, be waiting on pins and needles for her next release. I cannot recommend this series enough. I wasn't ever into dystopian fiction before, but this is so, so much more than that. THIS QUOTE RIGHT HERE! Among the others I included, just shows how AMAZING Lauren is with words. If this doesn't perfectly sum up life, I don't know what does. This gives me the chills when I read it, but it also gives me this sense of hope. I need to read it every single day. {{But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to all along.}}

Delirium has been an interesting series for me. The first book was "meh" for me, the second one amazing, and the last one quite enjoyable. Of course, in the second book. Ms. Oliver left us with a cliffhanger. I'm sure most of us wanted the book to pick up exactly where Pandemonium left off, but that's not what happens. Requiem begins with Lena and her friends trekking through the Wilds, looking for a safe place after escaping with Julian from the Regulators. I still liked how much Lena had grown up since book one. She's now strong, capable, and independent. However, I didn't like how she treated Julian. I felt that she used Julian as a substitute for Alex. For a book that's about love, Requiem's focus wasn't so much on the love aspect. Though usually I hate love triangles, I really looked forward to this one, because this is actually a love triangle that made sense. But Ms. Oliver didn't really deliver on this aspect of the book. Not enough time was focused on Lena, Julian, and Alex. While we see how Lena felt throughout the book, I wish there were more scenes of Julian and Alex. What Requiem really delivered on was the action. From beginning to end, it never really slowed down. Lena and her group keeps running into one obstacle after another that kept me flipping the pages. Even the Hana chapters, which are my least favorite, had enough suspense to keep me going. I say Hana's chapters are my least favorite because I'd rather have read more about Lena, Alex, and Julian, than about Hana. Reading about Hana reminds me too much of Delirium, which was not my favorite book. Anyway, it's impossible to talk about Requiem without talking about the ending. Personally, I liked how it ended. I can see how to some that it just seemed too abrupt and would feel unfinished, but I thought it suited the tone of the book very well. While it's extremely open-ended, it's about the rising of the revolution. The revolution hasn't ended. Lena's fight is still going, so it's only natural that there wasn't a set ending. Yet, I did feel like the ending was a bit preachy for me. It was almost too philosophical, but it was still enjoyable. Requiem, while it isn't perfect, is a satisfying conclusion to the series. Lauren Oliver's writing, as always, is beautiful. I still think that the concept is flawed, just because I can't envision a future where people would voluntarily give up love, but the delivery of the story is amazing. I would recommend this series, but I think it would be better if you'd just stop after Pandemonium and let your own imagination fill the rest of the story, as Requiem fell quite short in the romance department.

Title: Requiem Author: Lauren Oliver Rating: 5 Stars My Review - This has SPOILERS! It's book three in a trilogy, peeps... For me, this was the perfect ending. What's funny is at first I was like, "I called it. This is really about Hana and her mother more than it is about boys." *pats self on back*. But no, as always, Oliver is more layered than that. Somehow she took an essentially fantasy story (Dystopian, I know. But still fantastical) and injected it with a huge dose of real. It was real that Alex tried to let Lena move on, and that she tried as well, and that Julian will suffer in the end because they couldn't. Messy? Yes. But real. Real people do these sorts of things: lie to themselves, take what they can get, hide... On the surface people might call this a love triangle, but I find that to be an over-used term, applied to any situation in which there might be more than one love interest for a major character. In this case, Lena really only loved Alex. She took comfort in Julian's love for her, but her love for Alex never wavered. Another dose of real? The fact that Lena and her mother, now "Bee," didn't just fall into each other's arms and make up. After so long and so many scars, how could they? The same thing is true with Hana. Oliver really twists your heart with the knowledge that Halena is gone forever. That pretty moment of love, the innocent, share everything including gum, lie on your back and watch the clouds, "I promise we'll be best friends forever kind of love," is gone. How often are the Halenas lost forever? How many of us set aside our childish things in favor of what is expected, acceptable, and predictable. How much do we "cure" ourselves, stripping away the things we love until there is nothing left but data: your favorite color, favorite meal, hobbies... In this story there is real love, the kind that slips and slides and refuses to just sit down and stay put where we want it. It was critical that Oliver show you real love in this story, seeing as its extremes (the agony and the ecstasy, if you will) make up the critical commentary. Is one worth the other? Does one give the other *more* value than it would otherwise have? "You know you can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes, right?" THAT is the core of this story, the heartbeat, and it's a question we ask ourselves every day. And so I am struck, finally, by the dragnet of this story...not the surface of dystopia and cures and subterfuge, but the deeper hooks, the ones that dig into you and drag, bleeding your answers from the wounds. No. I don't believe you can ever truly be happy if you're never unhappy. Is that such a strange concept? I think we all agree on this, and yet, and yet, we seek heaven on Earth at every turn and curse our ill fortunes rather than feeling the balance of it all. That's the way of it, I guess. I rail at the injustices along with everyone else. I can understand wanting a cure... She's got me thinking, as usual. Back to the story... I LOVE Alex. That doesn't mean that I don't love Julian. Julian is lovely and delightful and one day he'll find love again; something that those of us that are older come to accept...even though that is a little tragic, too, in a way. But I LOVE LOVE Alex. He's exactly the right match for Lena, in the end. And it was inevitable that they would find their way back to one another, in the end. I was glad that Oliver gave us that. She had, had, had to give us that. The Crew. Raven and Tack, mostly, but also the others. I loved the little crew that Lena found and helped in the Resistance. It was all caprice that she was found by them in the first place in Pandemonium, but she was loyal and she stuck with them through the end. I liked some of the new characters they came across, like Pippa. When Oliver wrote the end of Raven's story, it had to have hurt. Because it hurt me to read it. She'd been so important to Lena, the missing mother that she needed. Even though Raven was tough, she always understood when Lena was at her limits and gave her room. Her loss was a deep blow. The Retribution. I LOVED when Fred Hargrove went BOOM! Also delightful. It was amazing the way Oliver deftly traded out psychotic villians in each tome, with the young Fred Hargrove being introduced in this one as the most nefarious of the lot. You get the idea that he's probably the kind of guy that has no problem hitting a woman *real* quick, but the extra layer of torturing animals and the Bluebeard story suggests full Dahmer-like sickness. You're very, very happy when Fred Hargrove goes BOOM. Hana. Given that her POV was half the story, you'd think I would have talked about her sooner. But it's easier to talk about Hana's loss than it is to talk about Hana herself. When I saw that Oliver chose to write from the POV of one of the cured, I was surprised. It was a great idea, but also so challenging. How do you write from the POV of someone with no feelings? I have to say it was extremely well done, and even though Hana's cure wasn't "perfect" because she still felt pangs and had dreams and memories, you could tell it was dulled. In fact, even though she is somewhat "released," her story makes it clear that the cured will never be free. They will always be dulled, cut off from the others and their feelings. It's tragic. The walls will come down and the uncured will go back to being the messy, unpredictable, hit-or-miss creatures that they are, but the zombies will never be the same. They will not care for their children, or spouses, or selves ever again. So was it a happy ending? Yesish. That will have to do. Was it satisfying? Extremely. Have I given up thumping Oliver for not making it more sci-fi detailed for me? Yes. I loved it. Go get it. One of the best dystopian trilogies, bar none. BTW - Oodles of people wanted more at the end. I understand that feeling. I did too. I wanted to see Lena and Alex happy together and have a big, pretty bow...but I didn't feel it. The ending works for me.

Requiem by Lauren Oliver is the third book in the Delirium trilogy. I gobble up all things YA and loved the first two books in the series, so was a happy camper when this book finally came out and downloaded onto my Kindle! Let me just say, Lauren Oliver is a great writer. There is a lot of YA fiction out there that is poorly written and none of Oliver's books fall into that category. Requiem is well-written and engaging. The dystopian United States that she paints is believable and the structures of this crumbled world stay the same throughout all three books. The first book, Delirium, totally sucks you in. The characters of Lena and Hana are the classic friend duo, breaking all the rules. When Alex comes into the picture, you root for him and Lena to get together and for the teens to break free of society's mandatory "cure." The cure that wipes away the ability to love and keeps everyone in control. The second book, Pandemonium, follows Lena out into the Wilds and Alex to a special hell of a prison. This is where things start to falter a bit. The main characters that you really care about are too split up. Alex is apart from Lena, Lena is apart from Hana and her cousin Grace, and you meet a whole new group of characters in the Wilds, some of whom are immediately killed off. And then enters Julian, the son of the total bad-guy-in-charge, as well as Lena's mother who has been assumed dead. What I, as the reader, wanted out of Requiem was answers and a good wrap up to the stories of all the main characters. The problem is that Oliver has too many threads going and she started a whole new point of view by rolling back to Hana from the first book. I felt like I had lost the character of Alex, he had been gone too long from the story, and so when there was the love triangle between Lena, Alex, and Julian, it felt forced. Especially with the introduction of Alex's new love interest in the Wilds. Then you meet Pippa, the counterpart to Raven, all the while circling back to the supposedly cured Hana, her impending wedding to the new evil mayor, and her connection to Grace, Lena's outcast cousin. Oh yeah, and the whole Lena and her distant mom drama. You sort of lose the story of the fight between the cured and uncured because Oliver tries to go too deep into too many characters. When you have a trilogy, you want to make sure that the main characters are really well developed, their story lines are strong, their voices are well defined, and their actions are at the forefront. Then you can add in a bunch of lesser characters. In addition, you don't really get an end to the whole story. Lena herself says, "I don't know what will happen - to me, to Alex and to Julian, to any of us." It's implied that the uncureds will succeed in taking down society, but have little idea how to build it back up. It's also implied that Alex and Lena will get back together, but the reader gets no definite answers. So my conclusion is this: The whole series is entertaining, well-written, and if you love YA, you will enjoy it. Despite Requiem's drawbacks and lack of a concrete conclusion, it does manage to semi-wrap up the story and leave the reader basically satisfied. Compared to a lot of other trilogies out there, this is one of the better ones.

****Spoiler Alert: Requiem is the third book in a trilogy. Read this review only if you've read Delirium and Pandemonium**** This one has to start with a few notes. First, I love-love-love Lauren Oliver and the Delirium trilogy. This was one of those event books I was counting down to and planning ahead to drop everything for. Second, I'm aware that it's damn near impossible for there to be a perfect ending to a lead-up as intense as this series. I accept that. That said, let us proceed to this crazy fangirl's best attempt at fairness. The Basics: Lena and the other rebels who've escaped the procedure to cure them of amor deliria nervosa (love) are no longer being ignored by the authorities in the regulated cities. The Wilds where they've taken refuge are under attack, and Lena is forced to fight back in a full-scale resistance alongside both Julian, the boy she's just rescued from the cure in Pandemonium, and Alex, the first love she'd assumed dead after he was shot while rescuing her from the cure in Delirium. Meanwhile, in regulated territory, Lena's former best friend, Hana, is coming to realize that her own cure may not have been entirely successful, and that her assigned fiancé, the soon-to-be mayor of Portland, is still a dangerous psychopath in spite of his. The Downside: With Lena spending almost the entire book in the emotionally unregulated Wilds and Hana's storyline limited almost completely to people who can't be completely cured, the very powerful basic concept of the trilogy doesn't get to shine as much as in the previous two books. The moments when ordinary love is made breathtakingly special by its contrast with a total absence of love are present but fewer and farther between, making it feel more like any other dystopian rebel epic. The body count demanded by such an epic also means there are a lot of background characters who aren't quite worth getting to know. I won't spoil which shippers come away triumphant (or whether I was one of them), but I will say that, after a full book's absence, and with the scarce and mostly negative showing Alex gets (he's got some issues to work out after escaping from the Crypts), he's a lot harder to root for than he probably should be. The Upside: It's Lauren-freaking-Oliver. It's some gutsy, cutting, and seriously poetic prose. The bloody dystopian rebel epic storyline may not be as innovative as the original Delirium concept, but it's still a fantastic bloody dystopian rebel epic, and like everything Oliver does, she makes it fresh. Even without the ever-present feeling-free backdrop that threw the drama of the first two books into such sharp relief, she can still cut through the numbness of a jaded reader. She still unfailingly makes me cry and cringe and cower at all the right moments as only the power of a good book can. Those throwaway background characters actually do add to the surrounded-by-death feel of the rebels' world in a way extras' deaths seldom do, partly because it's very clear that their deaths do not mean that the main characters are safe. No one is. Nothing is. The first two books set a clear enough precedent that no horrifying detail of this universe will be glossed over or sanitized when it arises, but Requiem really pulls all that lurking horror into the light, pushes it as far as it can go, then pushes farther, without it ever reaching the relief of the cartoonish too-far. The parallel storylines of Lena surviving in the impoverished and violent Wilds and Hana fearing for her life and her conscience in her fiancé's pristine mansion offers a similar, if not quite as dramatic, contrast to the one the cure created in the first two books, with the added explosive tension of waiting for their two lives to collide again. The bonus short story included in Requiem's first printing, while not essential to the overall story, is definitely worth getting your hands on. As well as being a gut punch in its own right, it offers the sympathy for Alex that's hard to come by in the novel itself. In fact, I might recommend reading the short story first for that reason. The end is... open-ended. Tidy conclusion to the epic it's not, but it works with the spirit of the story. A world where love exists is untidy and unpredictable and uncontrollable, but it's better than the alternative. That's kind of the point.

With the freedom of free will and the ability to love comes the consequence of loss, grief and pain. But for many, the freedoms are worth the consequences. In Lauren Oliver's final installment of the Delirium series, Requiem, we find out just how far the resistance will go to stop a world only interested in keeping its citizens numb and uncaring. Lena Having saved Julian and reuniting with Alex, Lena now bears a heavy cross. Alex has been cured, which has left him a different person- closed off, reserved, and disconnected from everything he shared with Lena. With Alex so different, Lena is drawn closer to Julian, but even Julian knows she still loves the old Alex. Even if the old Alex is gone. But boys aside, the people in the Wilds are no longer safe. They used to be protected by the fact that the government didn't want to acknowledge their existence, but since their very public demonstrations, that is no longer possible. Now they are hunting down everyone in the Wilds with one purpose: total extinction for all uncured people. But the uncured must decide their path. Do they fight back, or do they run? The decision will change Lena's life forever. Hana Hana was cured, but it didn't take. She is still haunted by dreams and emotions she shouldn't have to worry about. But her pair has been made and she is to marry the new mayor. She should be happy about the favorable match, but all she can think about is Lena. Where is she? What happened to her? When rumors of rebels get around, Hana begins to see Fred's true colors. Determined to stamp out all rebellion, Fred clearly aspires to be a true dictator. But with the population scared of the rebels, they look to Fred to protect them, even if it means they will lose more and more of their freedoms. Again, I loved having two different perspectives to the story. With Oliver's previous novels, we have seen this alternating perspective, which she does particularly well. It really allows you to see both sides of the wall (pun intended) and doesn't bias the story. When you watch the rebels doing what rebels do best- fighting back- you realize this isn't the best situation for everyone. But still, there is no doubt what a monster Fred is. I always like Hana, so I was really happy to see more of her in this story. But Fred was the prize for me in terms of characters. He was the kind of man you LOVE to hate, which kept me coming back to see where his storyline went. My biggest issue with this novel is that it is supposed to be a conclusion where everything is laid on the table. And it was certainly shaping up to be just that, but something got lost at the very end. Instead of a complete and satisfying conclusion, it felt rushed and empty. I wanted more. In fact, it ended like a typical chapter conclusion, not the end of a trilogy. I actually kept reading expected more only to realize that was the acknowledgments section. Where did the end of the book go? I am sad this didn't end in the best way for me because otherwise, I really loved this series. It was well written and read easily. But Oliver does like to put out those short stories, so maybe she will release something for after Requiem. It's just too bad she didn't put it all in the book.

Oh wow, this week I listened to the last book in Lauren Oliver's Delirium series and when it was over I was surprisingly ok with the way things were wrapped up. This book was one of the most talked about books online and on twitter. I know I was one of those eagerly chomping at the bit, or book in this case, to get my hands on it. I loved the first book when I listened to it two years ago. I love distopian novels and the very idea of one where love is a disease, How they cured the delirium caused by love was intriguing. How do I write more about what I love about this book, or this series, without giving away spoilers? I don't think I can, so if you don't want to know anything or haven't read any of the books in the series then stop here and read no further. Requiem picks up right at the end of where Pandemonium left off with Alex not being dead, but alive, and he is hurting because he thinks Lena has moved on with Julian. There was one scene in the book that almost broke my heart because I am team Alex and that is when Lena is able to finally get Alex alone and they have a horrible fight. Words are spoken and hearts, including mine, were bruised if not broken. The roller coaster ride of emotions were at an all time high. I think this scene and the fact that Lena and Hannah were both narrating is what really brings the other side of the delirium issue home and as a reader I can connect with "the zombies" as well. In the first book we see Lena fall in love and then lose that love in such a tragic way. But we see her pick up the pieces and try to get on their is hope in the second book. In the second book she has to protect herself because she is filled with grief and guilt. There is hope, but then Alex comes back and her mom is alive and we think everything will be ok, but it's not because there is hurt and anger then people change and move on. That is what I like about Lauren Oliver's writing, it is real and they don't call right into each others arms because it is always the people you love the most that you hurt the most. For Hannah, Lena's best friend we find out that through her own jealousness she was the one that gave Lena and Alex's location away and has always felt guilty about that. She has now had the procedure and is cured. I think I can sympathize with that side as well, because while people should have the right to choose love, I can see how not feeling, not caring, would seem like the answer too. Hannah's procedure doesn't work exactly like it's supposed to because when you love and betray that love, these feelings become a part of your soul and are not easily wiped away. Even in our own society where terrorists can cause the death of thousands I can see the appeal of building barriers and trying to find cures against that kind of passion. Faith and love can make people do crazy things. That is what I loved about this book, that Lauren Oliver explored both sides of the issue in a beautiful and poetic way. I felt that while the ending seem lacking to some, I felt it was full of hope. I felt like both sides, the diseased and the cured, were not wrong. The issue is about choice and cutting yourself off and living life to the fullest. And as the book says, knock down those walls and those barriers even if it is just one person at a time. Everyone has the right to love or not to love. The audiobook is narrated by Sarah Drew and she voiced all three books in the series. Sarah is an actress and has been on shows like Grey's Anatomy. I think she does a fantastic job as the narrator. She really made the book come alive for me. Her narration of the Alex and Lena scene really gave that dramatic impact that just pushed into heart breaking for me. I could really see those two characters in the woods yelling at each other and the tears streaming down Lena's face because Ms. Drew sounded like she was crying as she voiced a sobbing Lena. I highly recommend not only reading Requiem, but listening to it as well because their is nothing that really brings a book alive like a narrator who loves the story they are voice acting as much as the obsessed fans, like me. I give Requiem the audiobook five laser pistols because it really is a supernova.

Since Delirium, I have been in love with this series, and the world, and Lena an Alex. There's just something about their story that has captured my attention and broken my heart over and over again. Lena goes through so much and changes so completely over the course of the books, that I'm surprised Hana even recognizes her in Requiem. She's so radically different from the way she was in Delirium - she's daring, brave, strong in her beliefs, and very much in love - and it's been incredible to experience her transformation. I honestly thought Pandemonium was going to be as bad as it was going to get for Lena. I mean, she had to deal with losing Alex (and then finding him!), falling in love with Julian, and almost dying. Oh and realizing her mother is still alive, and then losing her again. I mean, it can't get any worse for her, right? Wrong. Requiem managed to leave me more heartbroken at times than I even thought possible. I don't know how Oliver does it, but she manages to pack such an emotional punch into even the simplest things. And then, we also got to see how Hana was managing back in Portland. Although I'm not Hana's biggest fan, I thought it was really interesting to see how someone who has been cured is handling the Resistance attacks and planning a wedding to the most important man in the city. And, of course, everyone has their secrets. Even the mayor. I think his might be the worst of all, because he has so much power and has so much potential to abuse that power. Like the rest of the series, the writing in this book is absolutely wonderful. It's one of those books that I hated to put down, and then I was so sad that it was over. Especially this time, because that's it. Now we have to say goodbye to Lena and Alex and Julian and Raven everyone else. And speaking of the ending, I thought it was perfect. I don't think a really conclusive ending would have done this series any justice, and it left off in a place that I was ok with. Especially because it feels so real, and not thrown together for the sake of a happily ever after. I would definitely recommend this to anyone who has read any of the other books. And, if you haven't and you enjoyed series like Matched, Divergent, or any of those other amazing dystopian series, I would totally recommend this book to you. Seriously, you'll be blown away. A strong 5/5 on this one, and over the entire series.

ATTENTION SPOILERS! Le premier tome était étonnant, tendre et émouvant. Le concept, opérer les ados à 18 ans pour les empêcher de tomber amoureux, si cruel et si saugrenu que l'histoire ne pouvait que bien démarrer, au risque de tomber un peu dans le cliché fleur bleue quand l'héroïne tombe, forcément, amoureuse, avant la date fatidique de son opération. Avec ce premier tome, nous avions vibré. Avec le 2e aussi, car nous assistions alors à la façon dont elle se remet de la fin du premier tome, et sa manière de se jeter à corps perdu dans le combat de la résistance. Justin était un nouveau personnage assez riche et assez complexe pour donner un second souffle à cette histoire, qui se terminait sur un cliffhanger tel que le 3e tome ne pouvait que faire trépigner d'impatience les lecteurs. Et quelle déception...! Justin et Alex ne sont plus que les ombres d'eux-même, Lena semble ne pas savoir où elle va, ce qu'elle doit faire, et elle perd toute combativité. Même Hana, dont j'adorais la personnalité, ne nous fait ressentir comme il se doit le poids de l'opération qu'elle a subie (et pourtant l'idée des récits parallèles pour montrer le ressenti des "guéris" était plus qu'intéressante). Et que dire de l'absence totale d'émotion dans les scènes Alex / Lena ? Ces personnages qui se sont tant aimés, qui ont tout risqué l'un pour l'autre, se témoignent une froide indifférence qu'on ne peut même pas interpréter comme une carapace pour se protéger l'un de l'autre. Même dans leurs scènes de dispute, et dans leur réconciliation, il n'y a rien. Ce que j'ai aimé avec le premier tome, c'était justement que nous avions droit à une dystopie romantique qui n'était pas niaise ou trop fleur bleue, mais tout de même à une histoire d'amour émouvante. Eh bien nous l'avons perdue avec le tome 3, et c'est bien dommage.

I love this series! The post-apocalyptic trend is something I've really gotten into. Great writing, great characters, great storyline! Must read!

Essa edição é perfeita e o livro veio em ótimo estado. Sobre a história, já li a trilogia em português e recomendo-a demais. Lauren Oliver é incrível!!

This is my first amazon review, so I hope it's useful to someone! :P I really enjoyed this trilogy which I discovered just in time not to have to wait ages for the final installment. In this book there are 2 perspectives: Hana's and Lena's I like this idea, but there were times I wished Hana's story had more depth and felt it was particularily repeatitive. I don't think it was as successful as the past and present style used in Book 2 but having the view back into Portland was interesting and it was good to see Hana back. I also feel that her situation wasn't ?tragic? enough to drive her to take the risks she did despite her curiosity and rebellious nature ... or atleast it wasn't stressed enough? I don't want to give too much away, but this book leaves you wanting more, due to the ending lacking finality and being extremely fast paced compaired to the rest of the book - only a small number of pages. But I think this reflects the nature of the world that Lauren created and I believe there is certainly scope for more books within this world if she wanted to further explore it ^^, I hope this doesn't sound too negative! I feel I can't explain everything I loved without giving too much away. I think the first book was thought provoking and certainly had me questioning reality for awhile simply via the idea these books are based on. The next two books are more just a story, which I feel you should enjoy rather then analysis. I feel it basically focuses on the transformation of Lena rather than overly questioning the society etc etc. A survival story with, as far as you're aware, warming aspects in it's conclusion. ... Poor Julian Though! hahaa. READ IT! especially while it's at such a bargain price (;

Bello, bellissimo, una spanna sopra Pandemonium ♥ La Oliver si conferma ancora una volta una delle autrici più talentuose e originali attualmente in circolazione, ma anche la più sadica... Sembra proprio non voglia dare soddisfazione a noi lettori. Di Requiem ho amato tutto, a partire dalla narrazione a due voci: da un lato Lena, ancora nelle Terre Selvagge e sconvolta dopo l'incontro con Alex, dall'altro Hana, che si appresta a vivere la sua vita da "curata" a fianco del suo futuro marito, Fred Hargrove. Assolutamente mozzafiato le descrizioni delle Terre Selvagge, così come speciale è l'analisi introspettiva che la Oliver riserva ai suoi personaggi. L'unica cosa a lasciarmi un po' perplessa è stata la scelta del finale aperto, anche se a freddo direi che è forse stata la decisione più giusta... D'altronde, è chiaro chi Lena scelga alla fine, quindi non posso dirmi totalmente delusa ♥♥ Certamente avrei apprezzato un vero finale, perché ho avuto la sensazione che questo non lo fosse, che di fatto non chiudesse nel giusto modo la storia. Ahimé, a quanto pare la Oliver non ha in programma di scrivere qualcos'altro sui personaggi della trilogia, quindi facciamoci bastare questo! P.s: sono stata una delle fortunate a trovare la short story di Alex nella versione cartacea di Requiem ** Fantastica anche quella!!