She’s no longer a dewy-eyed teen but a lean mean rager against the machine. In the Wilds, I start to build, and to climb. It is hard and deep and angular, a system of blockades. It will feed you and at the same time turn you to rot. In the fraught months after losing Alex, Lena explains: In a world where love is a disease, hatred is a tempting alternative. It’s not long before she has bigger things to think about, though the resisters who have taken in Lena begin plotting their next mission, and Lena wants in.Įach chapter alternates between “then” and “now,” and the juxtaposition emphasizes how Lena evolves and hardens. Dehydrated, thirsty, and injured, she’s on the edge of defeat when she’s rescued by a small band of those whom she used to fear: Invalids.Īs Lena recovers, she quickly learns how to survive in this new world-one where the memory of Alex constantly haunts her. He was gunned down, caught in flames, unable to cross into the Wilds with Lena, and now she’s on her own. For more on that book, check out my enthusiastic review.Īlex is gone. Warning: This review contains spoilers for Pandemonium ’s prequel, Delirium.
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