Note: In order to prevent myself from devolving into a sputtering pile of incoherent verbiage when I inevitably attempted to review this book (which I went into honestly hoping to like, but more realistically believing I would end up — to us a mild turn of phrase — disliking), I decided to bust out the good old reading journal format in order to more carefully document my thoughts as I read. Be warned: apart from a brief synopsis at the beginning of this review, spoilers ahoy! Oh boy, are they ahoy.
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Requiem is the third and final book in the Delirium trilogy (soon to be a TV show starring Emma Roberts! Sadly, yes, I will be watching — I am morbidly curious). Lauren Oliver’s story takes place in a dystopia in some alternate world (or perhaps near future world, who knows, it’s really vague) where love has been declared a disease. Amor deliria nervosa, they call it. Also: the deliria.
Book three picks up right where we left off in Pandemonium. Alex, Lena’s former boy toy, has joined their group of Invalids. Hana, Lena’s former best friend, is living in Portland and about to marry the almost-mayor, Fred Hargrove. The Resistance is planning its first big offensive, attempting to take back their freedom. All of these plotlines will presumably converge at the end, and we will find out: Who is Lena going to choose, Julian or Alex? What will happen to Hana? Will the Resistance succeed in bringing back the old way of life, before the Cure became mandatory?
