But we are still here.
And there are more of us every day.
Now an active member of the resistance, Lena has been transformed. The nascent rebellion that was under way in Pandemonium has ignited into an all-out revolution in Requiem, and Lena is at the center of the fight.
After rescuing Julian from a death sentence, Lena and her friends fled to the Wilds. But the Wilds are no longer a safe haven—pockets of rebellion have opened throughout the country, and the government cannot deny the existence of Invalids. Regulators now infiltrate the borderlands to stamp out the rebels, and as Lena navigates the increasingly dangerous terrain, her best friend, Hana, lives a safe, loveless life in Portland as the fiancée of the young mayor.
Maybe we are driven crazy by our feelings.
Maybe love is a disease, and we would be better off without it.
But we have chosen a different road.
And in the end, that is the point of escaping the cure: We are free to choose.
We are even free to choose the wrong thing.
Requiem is told from both Lena’s and Hana’s points of view. The two girls live side by side in a world that divides them until, at last, their stories converge.
Wow. I read the last 200 pages in about 2 hours. (That's fast, even for me.) I wasn't all that impressed by this book. Delirium absolutely blew me away. Pandemonium was good. Not great, but good. But Requiem just didn't do it for me. I'm pretty disappointed by it, to be honest.
I was racing to the end of the book mostly because there was nothing that kept me reading all that closely. To me, Hana's parts were completely unnecessary. They didn't add anything to the story.
Maybe I am being a little harsh on the book, but it just seemed to me that Lauren Oliver just wanted to get the series over with and rushed through this book. There was no real ending, and there was no finality. It was just suddenly over.
All in all, I think I was just too impressed by Delirium that Requiem didn't stand a chance.
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