"They have tried to squeeze us out, to stamp us into the past. But we are still here."
Reviewed by Sherri Morris
Posted June 15, 2013
Young Adult Paranormal
REQUIEM is told from Lena and Hana's point of view. Being
former best friends, the pair now have totally different
lives. Hana was cured and now struggles with the
aftereffects of the procedure. Lena is an Invalid or Uncured
and has fled to the wilds. Groups of rebellions have opened up throughout the country.
The number of the Invalids or uncured is rising. The
government can no longer deny that they exist. Therefore,
Regulators have been dispatched to the wilds to destroy any
and all they come in contact with.
Lena and her friends have fled to the wilds. Lena feels as
if she is being pulled in two different directions. She has
finally found Alex alive....but now that she has helped free
Julian from the crypts and shared a kiss with him, her
feelings are all over the place.
Back in Portland, Hana Tate, Lena's cured former best
friend, lives a safe and loveless life. She is paired with
Fred Hargrove, who is the new mayor of Portland. Hana sees
her former life slowly slipping away from her. She assumed
the cure would end all feeling. But her guilt of betraying
Lena an Alex are still there.
When Hana is whisked away from the Labs when it is attacked,
she literally runs into Lena. The two girls are surprised to
see one another. Hana allows Lena to escape after telling
her the source of her guilt. Lena warns her of the bomb that
is planted in the house she is now sharing as wife of the
Mayor.
As third book of the Delirium series, if you haven't
already
done so, I recommend reading the first two novels before
this one. I could easily follow the plot, but the history
up to this point in the series was lost to me as well as the
history between characters. There is some back-story with
this book, just not enough to really understand the
characters. For me
there was no real ending...no explanation of what happened
or if anything was resolved in the end, and I was left
anticipating the next book in the series.
Learn more about Requiem
SUMMARY
This exciting finale to Lauren Oliver's New York
Times bestselling Delirium trilogy is a riveting blend
of nonstop action and forbidden romance in a dystopian
United States. Now an active member of the resistance, Lena has
transformed. The nascent rebellion that was underway 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 infiltrate the borderlands to stamp out
the rebels. As 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. Requiem
is told from both Lena and Hana's points of view. They live
side by side in a world that divides them until, at last,
their stories converge. 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. Sophisticated and
wide-ranging, Requiem brings the Delirium trilogy
to a thrilling conclusion.
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