Requiem by Lauren Oliver

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Book summary: 

They have tried to squeeze us out, to stamp us into the past.

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.

       This one of the series I have got to say goodbye to this year. When I think of it, this year was full of them but at the same time I got to meet some amazing new characters whose stories I'm now anxiously expecting. That's just one of the reasons why I love reading.

        Talking about plot here won't be an option, because as always when we talk about third and in this case final book in a series it's hard not to spoil things and I don't want to do that. But I can say that Delirium is an interesting series that pictures world without love. It was a new concept for me and interesting one at that. This trilogy was full of action and turning points and with all that it had a great world-building. I enjoyed more or less all the characters here and I did pick a side still I didn't hate the other one. I could even forgive that cliffhanger after Pandemonium.

        I'd love to say that here, as in all Hollywood movies, love always wins, but honestly I don't know. That leads us to the biggest problem here. I usually don't have problems with open endings but the thing is that here things are left too open. I want to believe in one thing and hope that it's what happens but I can't as there is always that little devil on my shoulder that puts all "but what-if"s in my mind.

       Good thing, though, is that my expectations for this one were minimal before reading Requiem because I have seen some terrible reviews for it. Because of that I enjoyed this book more than I thought. But still it leaves the bittersweet taste in my mouth, because it needed just a little to be perfect.

Rating: 4 stars.

Until the next time,