![]() Lauren Oliver has a way of really making you connect with the characters, which makes reading her work an experience, like you’re sprinting alongside them rather than watching them from afar. ![]() Pandemonium is jam-packed full of action, and plenty of moments where you can actually feel your heart squeezing in your chest (to me, that’s a sign of a truly good book). It’s a pretty mean feat to be able to pull this off without making things complicated and confusing, but Lauren Oliver has achieved it perfectly. Delirium was a pretty straight forward story with a narrative that took us from A to B, but Pandemonium shakes it up a bit with a ‘then’ and ‘now’ structure that takes the reader back and forth in time chapter by chapter. In fact, Pandemonium is one of those rare cases when the sequel is ten times better than the first in the series, and I had already given Delirium a five star rating.Īnd it’s not just the new characters that make Pandemonium such a great read, it’s also the new structure that Lauren Oliver has introduced. ![]() I don’t want to spoil anything here, but I will say that Pandemonium adds some new characters into the mix that lead Lena’s story in a whole new direction. She’s questioned love and the life-changing and agonising choices that come with it. I hoped that this sequel would pull us back up again, and that it did, but in a way that I absolutely had not expected. Lauren Oliver left us with an enormous cliffhanger at the end of Delirium, Pandemonium’s captivating predecessor. Pandemonium (book two of the Delirium trilogy) – Lauren Oliver
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