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.--From Goodreads
My Thoughts: I don't know what it is about this novel. Everyone seems to love it but me. It took me three tries to read the first novel, Delirium. I love the summery for both of these novels, but when I'm actually trying to read through it, I find the pace very slow and difficult to complete. For this novel, I wasn't a fan of the constant back and forth of the "Then" and "Now" sequencing. I didn't like how it kept on switching from present tense to past tense. Another thing that kind of put me off was the certain form of switching the narration tense as well. At times to me as a reader, it felt as if we were watching things unfold right along with Lena the main character, and then at times it felt like Lena was the one narrating. So the form of the narration threw me off a bit on the story as well. Overall, it just felt like there was too much going on at once. I will probably pick it back up again later, but for some reason, I'm just not that big of a fan as everyone else seems to be.
Would I recommend this book: Eh
Rating: I give this book a DNF.
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