Review: Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver

Pandemonium (Delirium #2)
by Lauren Oliver 

I'm pushing aside the memory of my nightmare, pushing aside thoughts of Alex, pushing aside thoughts of Hana and my old school, push, push, push, like Raven taught me to do.The old life is dead.But the old Lena is dead too.I buried her.I left her beyond a fence,behind a wall of smoke and flame. 
Lauren Oliver delivers an electrifying follow-up to her acclaimed New York Times bestseller, Delirium. This riveting, brilliant novel crackles with the fire of fierce defiance, forbidden romance, and the sparks of a revolution about to ignite.

"Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever." 

A lot of series I read, the second book in the series is never as good as the first one. But in this case, I like Pandemonium so much more.

The second book in the Delirium series, Pandemonium, I found a lot different from the first book. It almost come across as a different book, just with the same main character, Lena. I didn't really like Lena in the first book, and I found she was still pretty annoying in this one as well. Just not as much. I did find a lot of growth with her character from the first book. Which I liked. She wasn't as naive as I found her in the first book.

After starting Pandemonium, something I found I didn't like was that the chapters skip from past to present. I'm not a huge fan of flashbacks, so going into this book I did find myself hesitate to continue reading. But I was far to curious about what was going to happen and what was going on to stop.

The romance *sigh* ( not the good kind of sigh). I am a huge Alex fan. Alex is what saved the first book for me. So for him not being in this book sucked. But I got over that and just continued reading. But then we meet Julian. First let me say what I did like about it. In the first book it was Alex that taught Lena that love was okay. And in this book Lena did the same for Julian, as Alex did for her. I really liked how that linked to the first book, otherwise it would have seemed liked two different books. But moving on, Alex, great male character, so for Lena to (what seemed like automatically) move on to Julian, was disappointing. It made it seem like what Alex and Lena had in the first book wasn't that "real". Now I may be a little, just a little biased when it comes to Alex, but I didn't like Julian at all. I would have rather there be no romance in this book. Okay, the romance wasn't THAT bad, but like I said I might be biased. ;)

The ending, at least for me, was no surprise. Nonetheless, I still found myself chanting "Yes,yes,yes". The ending made me very happy, but still annoyed because I have to wait for the third book.

The writing, just like the first book, was beautifully written. I did really like Pandemonium more than Delirium. And the fact that this one was better for me than the first one, makes me think the third one will be even better. If you wasn't a huge fan of Delirium, I would recommend still reading this book, because it really did seem like a different book.

Rating 3/5