Requiem Book Review
“And you can't love, not fully, unless you are loved in return.”
*Spoilers if you haven’t read the first two books, Delirium and Pandemonium* You can find the reviews here and here.
I am so confused. I read this a few weeks ago and I still can’t get over that ending. It was just awful. I was seriously expecting to turn the page and find another chapter or two, but no that was it. But really, besides the ending, this book was a step up from Pandemonium. First it didn’t have the “now” and “then” part, which was great. You finally get to see Alex, which made the book a hundred times better. But the ending was kind of a “wtf moment”.
Requiem was split into two povs: Lena and Hana. Hana is cured and about to be married to the governer. But she soon releases that the cure didn’t work on her. Well it kind of did, but it wears off throughout the book. She displays this by bringing food to Lena’s family, which is homeless after Lena escaped. It was really nice to see her point of view in the story.
So this book picks up right after Pandemonium. Alex is different, hard, cold, and wrong after seeing Lena with Julian. So basically they both picked people to make the other one jealous. Lena has Julian and Alex has Coral. It is so freaking annoying. There is a shit load of tension between the three, I mean really. There are punches thrown. It is all madness. The whole time I was just like “KISS ALREADY” to Lena and Alex.
The rebellion is in full swing and they are fully fitting back again the government. I loved seeing this intense version of Lena. She is no longer the sweetheart from Delirium or the grieving person from Pandemonium. She is bad ass.
"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 be all along."
So out in the Wilds, the government is now hunting them down. They didn’t even say they were real in the first two books, and in the third they are hunting them down. The Wilds are a mess. They are constantly moving around to try to find a save place. But there is no safe place, and they soon learn that.
So while I had some problems with this book, I can’t deny that Lauren Oliver’s writing is incredibly perfect and beautiful in every way. It is just so amazing. I do think that this was a great book, while it wasn’t perfect, it was a good read.
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