“She was cured,” the rat-man says shortly, and turns his back to us, resuming the walk.
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It occurs to me, then, that people themselves are full of tunnels: winding, dark spaces and caverns impossible to know all the places inside of them. I wonder if Julian is as surprised as I am.
“I was already sick,” the rat-man says, and although I can’t see his face, I can hear that he is smiling just a little bit. “I didn’t want to be cured,” he says at last, and the words are so normal-a vocabulary from my world, a debate from above-that relief breaks in my chest. My breath is coming quickly, rasping in my throat. For a minute Rat-man doesn’t say anything, and the three of us stand there in the stifling dark. I can’t help but blurt out, “Why?” He turns abruptly back to me. “Lost count.” Unlike the other people who have made their home on the platform, he has no noticeable physical deformities except for his single milk-white eye. I have a sudden terror that the rats are all around me, even on the ceilings. Now all around us we hear the chittering of tiny teeth and nails, and the flashlight lights up quick-moving, writhing shadows. “How long have you been here?” Julian asks, after the ratman has straightened up again. It is terrible to watch, but I can’t look away. From the corners of the tunnel the rats emerge, sniffing his fingers, fighting over the crumbs, hopping up into his cupped palms and running up over his arms and shoulders. Once he crouches, and pulls bits of crushed crackers from the pockets of his coat, scattering them on the ground between the wooden slats of the tracks. The Independent gave a mostly positive review, stating that although Oliver is "an adept and occasionally courageous storyteller", the story was "somewhat exhausting".We walk in silence, although the rat-man occasionally stops, making clicking motions with his tongue, like a man calling a dog. Lena slowly begins to fall in love with Julian as he begins to tell more about his abusive father, his real thoughts in the disease, and why he really joined the DFA.Ĭritical reception for the novel was mostly positive, with Kirkus Reviews and the School Library Journal giving it starred reviews.
With the memory of Alex's sacrifice in mind, she navigates her way out of the place with Julian. Julian is unable to receive the procedure because he has a brain tumor.
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She is part of the DFA, the Deliria Free America, and during one of its rallies, she is kidnapped by other Invalids, called Scavengers, and held in captive with Julian Fineman, the leader of the youth division of the DFA. The book also follows Lena in her life while she lives in New York City with two other characters from the Wilds: Raven and Tack. That is easier said than done, as Lena and her group have much standing in their way. She is now free of the "cure," but she and her acquaintances decide that they must do the same for everyone else and restore society to its former state. She is helped her back to health by the group, which takes place as her new family. She becomes very weak and is found nearly dead by a group of people. Unfortunately for her, the Wilds are less wonderful than she thought. Lena is now in the Wilds alone, and the sequel begins by switching the chapters from the present "now" and the past "then" point of view of Lena until they are joined together in Chapter 13. The book follows up the events of Delirium. The book was preceded by a novella entitled Hana and was succeeded by Requiem, the final book in the series. The book was first published on Februthrough HarperTeen and follows the series' protagonist as she explores the Wilds outside the walled community she was raised in. Pandemonium is a 2012 dystopian young adult novel written by Lauren Oliver and the second novel in her Delirium trilogy. Print ( Hardback, Paperback), e-book, audiobook
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