Requiem - Lauren Oliver

Tittle: Requem

Series: Delirium #3

Author: Lauren Oliver

Genre: YA, science fiction, dystopia, romance

Pages: 432

Publisher: Harper Collins

Format: Kindle

Time to read it: 3 days

Language: English

Rating: 2/5

Requiem is the conclusion to Lauren Oliver’s Delirium trilogy. Delirium follows Lena a teenager living in a world were love has been pointed as the cause of all the bad things that had happen to humanity. In order to get rid of that dangerous illness teenagers are put into a procedure, which remove the possibility to love. However, there are people who don’t believe in that, rebels who are sure love is one of the main things that make us human. Those revels tend to live outside the fenced that surrounded the main cities and they are called invalids. Nevertheless, its force has grown and now they are able to have people on the inside. Lena’s life changed the moment she met Alex one of this invalids.

After Julian and Lena escaped and found the rest of the resistance, including Alex, they have gone into the wilds. There they will find out the wilds are not as secure to invalids as they used to be. The government has made his move and it’s hunting them down, therefore its time to make a decision: either they fight back or they try to run and back down.

Requiem was not the ending I was expecting to a really good series. The worst thing about this book is that I really enjoyed the book until the very last fifteen pages.  It wasn’t my favorite since Hanna’s point of view was introduced; because I didn’t know why was it important to know what Hanna was living.  I didn’t liked this point of view mainly because I thought it would have been really interesting to know what a cured person think, however the way it was written it looked as Hanna wasn’t really cured, which might be what the author wanted. Nevertheless, I would have really enjoyed take a look into one of the “zombies”, how a life without love would make you think.

Nevertheless, the main and only real problem was the ending, or as I would describe it lack of ending. Until the end, this book would have received a four out of five, it was good, and I liked it. But there were less than twenty pages left and nothing has happened, and then in the last few pages something starts to happen, things that didn’t get to a conclusion. The lead to an ending is there, but there isn’t an actual conclusion. That was the most frustrating thing in the world. Because you can disagree with the ending of a book or a series, but you cannot even disagree with this one because there is no ending.

To sum up, Requiem was an awful ending to a good series. I don’t recommend reading this book because you are going to end with the same or even more amount of questions as when you read the previous one.