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    Requiem
    Requiem
    Requiem
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    Requiem

    Written by Lauren Oliver

    Narrated by Sarah Drew

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    The third and final book in Lauren Oliver’s powerful New York Times bestselling trilogy about forbidden love, revolution, and the power to choose.

    Now an active member of the resistance, Lena has transformed. The nascent rebellion has ignited into an all-out revolution, and Lena is at the center of the fight.

    After rescuing Julian from a death sentence, Lena and her friends fled to the Wilds. But the Wilds are no longer a safe haven. Pockets of rebellion have opened throughout the country, and the government cannot deny the existence of Invalids. Regulators infiltrate the borderlands to stamp out the rebels.

    As Lena navigates the increasingly dangerous terrain of the Wilds, her best friend, Hana, lives a safe, loveless life in Portland as the fiancée of the young mayor. They live side by side in a world that divides them until, at last, their stories converge.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMar 5, 2013
    ISBN9780062224569
    Author

    Lauren Oliver

    Lauren Oliver is the cofounder of media and content development company Glasstown Entertainment, where she serves as the President of Production. She is also the New York Times bestselling author of the YA novels Replica, Vanishing Girls, Panic, and the Delirium trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, and Requiem, which have been translated into more than thirty languages. The film rights to both Replica and Lauren's bestselling first novel, Before I Fall, were acquired by Awesomeness Films. Before I Fall was adapted into a major motion picture starring Zoey Deutch. It debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 2017, garnering a wide release from Open Road Films that year. Oliver is a 2012 E. B. White Read-Aloud Award nominee for her middle-grade novel Liesl & Po, as well as author of the middle-grade fantasy novel The Spindlers and The Curiosity House series, co-written with H.C. Chester. She has written one novel for adults, Rooms. Oliver co-founded Glasstown Entertainment with poet and author Lexa Hillyer. Since 2010, the company has developed and sold more than fifty-five novels for adults, young adults, and middle-grade readers. Some of its recent titles include the New York Times bestseller Everless, by Sara Holland; the critically acclaimed Bonfire, authored by the actress Krysten Ritter; and The Hunger by Alma Katsu, which received multiple starred reviews and was praised by Stephen King as “disturbing, hard to put down” and “not recommended…after dark.” Oliver is a narrative consultant for Illumination Entertainment and is writing features and TV shows for a number of production companies and studios. Oliver received an academic scholarship to the University of Chicago, where she was elected Phi Beta Kappa. She received a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from New York University. www.laurenoliverbooks.com.

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    • 3/5
      Meh, kind of a disappointment of a third book. The narrator also repeatedly pronounces words wrong... what was with her deciding to pronounce Hana differently than she did in the first book?
    • 5/5
      I really enjoyed this trilogy a lot. This final book does a great job of wrapping everything up. Even though I want to know what happens next, I think the author does a great job of letting me imagine what life will be like for all the main characters. Great dystopia series! Well worth the read.
    • 2/5
      Love this book series! BUT, the recording of this book is full of a high pitched squeaking throughout, giving me a headache.
      Third books ending isn't even an ending wtf
    • 3/5
      This would have been four stars if only Oliver had written a less crappy story.
      Okay, that's an overstatement.
      Let me say this: This entire series would have been better if Julian was completely wiped of existence after the second book.
      Key words: After the second book.
      He doesn't do anything in this book. All he does is well...... nothing. No key roles, nothing.
      I originally gave this book two stars, but after reading the ending, I think it deserved another one.
      I believe that the end of a story shouldn't be written by the author, it should be completed in the reader's mind. I've read many, many books where after I read it, I think "You know, this would have been a lot better if the author just stopped writing it at [this point]."
      Also, because of the ending, Oliver inspired a generation of FanFiction (at least in me) and involved the fan community. I believe that in a book series, you shouldn't always listen to the fans, but you should inspire them to write something off of your own work.

      Also, I'm sure that if Oliver wrote an ending where the Resistance lost, everyone died, and Lena committed suicide, that she would have gotten the same reaction from her fans. So which would you rather have, an open ended ending or an ending where everyone died?
    • 3/5
      Lena and Hana go back and forth again - one on her way back to Portland in the throes of a love triangle and the other on her way to a marriage she may need to escape. The build-up was good. The extra Alex story was meh.
    • 5/5
      Loved it!!!
    • 3/5
      The finale to the Delirium Series and my favorite out of the series!!! First off: ALEX IS ALIVE!!!! Second, really another love triangle. I vehemently dislike love triangles they are over done, but was the only problem I had in the book. Lena was a also little annoying in this book with her jealousy but this is the world she chose, a world of love and with love comes other emotions. In this book we meet Lena's mom which I was really excited about and I love that Lena didn't know how to act around her. How do you act around a woman you thought was dead for most of your life? How do you act around someone you never really knew?

      For me it showed a more real world with real people. My favorite part of the novel was the ending because there was no ending. Now a days we get a book all tied up pretty with a bow, which yes it is nice but its not real life. Maybe Elizabeth and Darcy started to hate each other? Maybe Harry, Ron, and Hermione drift apart (God forbid). The ending also showed Lena not definitively choosing Alex and Julian (although I'm siding with Julian), but instead she took her little cousin, Grace's hand, and went into the Wilds. Would it have been nice to have a clear cut ending of what happened and if the resistance won or the government won, yes, but the ending was beautiful. The beauty of it being that we as the reader get fully pulled into the experience. With this ending we are not passive any more because we get to choose how it ends and who wins. And it involves also looking at ourselves and trying to decide what we would choose, love or the cure.

      Take down the wall.
    • 4/5
      Concludes the Delirium trilogy. Lena and Alex have been reunited, but Lena's with Julian now and Alex gives her the cold shoulder. When the government starts trying to wipe out the Resistance camps, they decide to fight back. Lena's mother joins their forces. meanwhile, Lena's old friend Hana has been matched with the mayor of Portland, but she begins to learn some disturbing things about him and what happened to his first wife. She begins a quiet rebellion of her own.
    • 2/5
      Review to come, but for now, I will say that

      1) It is clear which guy Lena chooses in the end.

      2) The ending seems almost like a beginning of a new story in this world, so a fourth book could work. What a shame Oliver has said she does not plan to do so.

      3) Oliver never did build this "alternate reality" as well as she could. She never answered the ultimate question: HOW did our world get to this point that human beings could ever consider love a disease?

      4) It's a shame we never learn more about Raven. Pandemonium seems to suggest at such an interesting back story of hers; I had an expectation that Oliver would detail it in Requiem.

      5) I think it's clear Oliver had more to say about this world and her characters than she really could in three books, but she was determined, for whatever reason, to make this a trilogy.

      More thoughts to come...
    • 3/5
      Now an active member of the resistance, Lena has been transformed. The nascent rebellion that was under way in Pandemonium has ignited into an all-out revolution in Requiem, and Lena is at the center of the fight.After rescuing Julian from a death sentence, Lena and her friends fled to the Wilds. But the Wilds are no longer a safe haven—pockets of rebellion have opened throughout the country, and the government cannot deny the existence of Invalids. Regulators now infiltrate the borderlands to stamp out the rebels, and as Lena navigates the increasingly dangerous terrain, her best friend, Hana, lives a safe, loveless life in Portland as the fiancée of the young mayor.Maybe we are driven crazy by our feelings.Maybe love is a disease, and we would be better off without it.But we have chosen a different road.And in the end, that is the point of escaping the cure: We are free to choose.We are even free to choose the wrong thing.Requiem is told from both Lena’s and Hana’s points of view. The two girls live side by side in a world that divides them until, at last, their stories converge.(less)Hardcover, 391 pagesPublished March 5th 2013 by HarperCollins Children's BooksISBN0062014536 (ISBN13: 9780062014535)edition languageEnglishoriginal titleRequiemseriesDelirium #3charactersMagdalena "Lena" Ella Haloway-Tiddle, Alex Sheathes, Julian Fineman
    • 3/5
      Still not sure how I feel about the ending. I feel like one of the main characters was used and discarded. If you're hoping for detailed resolution with nods to the future for the characters you might be disappointed.
    • 5/5
      <3! Beautifully written, as expected from Lauren Oliver.
    • 5/5
      The Good Stuff Perfect ending to a brilliant series Exceptional character development - I detested Lena at the beginning of this trilogy and was disgusted with her acceptance of her life & ended up cheering and hoping for her The ending is so wonderful. If Oliver never writes anything else about these characters you can be satisfied and left with a sense of hope. At the same time it leaves it open if she wants to write more she can - brilliant Oliver is a gifted storyteller. Everything feels so very real and you are emotionally invested in the characters Kept on the edge of my seat about what was going to happen Really makes you think about love - at times it does feel like a disease - and maybe we would all be better without it -- but at the same time it is the thing that gives us purpose Last page is beautiful and wiseThe Not So Good Stuff A little too angsty with the two love interests - hey I am old, this sort of thing irritates me at timesFavorite Quotes/Passages"Who knows? Maybe they're right. Maybe we are driven crazy by our feelings. Maybe love is a disease, and we would be better off without it.But we have chosen a different road. And in the end that is the point of escaping the cure: We are free to choose.""How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust - and also to make you feel so whole.""I like seeing the Wilds this way: skinny, naked, not yet clothed in spring. But reaching, too, grasping and growing, full of want and thirst for sun that gets slaked a little bit more every day. Soon the Wilds will explode, drunk and vibrant.""This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors."Who Should/Shouldn't Read Obviously if you enjoyed the other two books in the trilogy, you will love this You have to read the other two stories first - won't make sense unless you do5 Dewey'sI purchased this from Chapters Shawnessy because I read the rest of the series and loved it
    • 5/5
      I just finished reading Requiem. It is the final book in the Delirium trilogy written by Lauren Oliver. Lena has now officially become an active force of the resistance. She finds that the force grows stronger every day. They work together to form a plan to make their existence known. Meanwhile, Hana finds herself adjusting to her new life after being cured. She’s getting ready to be married to the mayor. Lena and Hana grew up together as best friends. Now they find themselves on opposite sides. Like the first two books, I really loved this book. I personally loved that the final book was from both Lena and Hana’s perspectives. It gave things a very creative touch. It was pretty interesting to have a perspective from a cured’s point of view. It gave it an unexpected angle. I won’t go into details, but I really loved how there were many parts in the ending that were left open for interpretation. Most of the time, this isn’t done correctly, but it’s done correctly with this ending. The only thing I didn’t like about this book was that it didn’t go into many details about what happened to Lena’s family. They are mentioned a few times, but never really fully discussed. I’d of liked to have seen that. I also wish they could have added a “years later” part. It would have been nice to see how things turned out. I still liked the trilogy regardless. It was very well written.I fully recommend this book. I would recommend that the reader read the first two books first. The first book is called Delirium. The second book is called Pandemonium. Be prepared to fall in love with the characters. Especially some of the younger ones. I know I did!
    • 5/5
      The last in my trio of dystopian YA's I read all at once years ago, as they came out (Chemical Garden, Delirium, and Matched).

      And, oh, but I was so very surprised and in love. So many of the characters from book one and book two. How the characters came together. How Lena, Julian, and Alex each found who they were. How Raven, everything, and the camp. The new characters that we met this time. All the growing, all the learning how the world was trying to 'take care' of them now. All the hard choice and the deep bonds that were drawn on and tensely crossed over.

      The whole of Hana learning what she was and who, and what she was still capable of, even while cured, which means so much for so many. Learning of her husband-to-be, learning of herself. How everything will be for her. The way her "new-old interaction" is, honestly, perfect. And the last scene is so chillingly well done. I wanted to know where it went, where she did, how and everything.

      The whole last few chapters were so much. This whole book was. It's so hard to think of how not to ruin the ending, or the changes, but I will say it's a glorious ending and I think everyone should take this three book journey to that point.
    • 5/5
      Great finish to the trilogy. I enjoyed it. Life really is all about "taking down the walls"!
    • 4/5
      Dont know my thoughts on this just yet, really liked it but the ending fell a bit flat for me.
    • 2/5
      The ending was a let down and very oblique in my opinion.
    • 5/5
      I love the whole series. It ends how I imagined it would be but I AM DYING to know what happened to Hana. What's the future is like for all the invalids, the resistor, the people of zombieland and especially what happens to Lena, Grace, Alex, Annabell, Tack and all the rest of the group. I'm sad that there wont be any more addition to this book.
    • 3/5
      This book was great, until the ending. This started off really strong and just kept getting stronger. I liked the action; the love triangle between Alex, Lena, and Julian; and getting to see Hana's point of view. This book kept building and building for what I thought would be a great explosion at the end. I thought for sure that we would finally get to see Lena decide who to be with, and that we would get to see with the Resistance was successful. To my dismay the ending leaves those things wide open. It felt to me as though the author reached her page limit and had to wrap it up really quickly. I really did feel like breaking some walls after reading that ending.I was ready to give this book five stars until I got to the ending. This book had great action, a great love triangle, and some great moments with Lena's mom; unfortunately it just peters out at the end.
    • 3/5
      What drew me to this series and kept my attention was the romance. Alex and Lena, then Alex and Julien. In Requiem, I was hoping for an intense love triangle. Emotion and angst overload. This book was lacking and unsatisfying in that respect. I kept reading, hoping that there would be some sweeping change and romance would find a way to bloom again in the Wilds but it doesn't. I am a bit disappointed.
    • 5/5
      I loved this series!
    • 3/5
      Read from May 24 to 25, 2013I was expecting a little more from this one. While I appreciate the story, I would have enjoyed a bit more of a resolution and more obvious differences in voice between Hana and Lena. I did like seeing Lena go out on her own and save herself. Too often in these kinds of books it seems our heroine needs a boy to save her, so that was refreshing. Hana also ended up being a surprise -- but was she cured or not? How exactly does the cure work? I feel like I forgot a lot from the previous two books. Finally, MORE from Lena's mom would have been nice. I would have liked to see their relationship develop a bit more.
    • 4/5
      Beautiful!!!
      I am a huge ball of emotions right now...
    • 4/5
      This series ended better than I thought it would. The structure of the story between Lena and Hana was a good idea and helped bring the story along especially because of the short amount of time that passes during this installment. It would of been better if Alex's voice could of been heard as well. I like how the end of the story was filled with hope and the idea of beginning something new. This book was really just a way to close out the series with one big event. An epilogue would of been nice.
    • 5/5
      One of the best book series ever. But I need to know, what the hell happens to Lena’s love life!?!?!?!?!
    • 2/5
      The first book, Delirium, was the best in this series. The second book and this book don’t match up with it at all in my opinion. As with the second book, the narrator of this audio book really grated on me. I didn’t like her at all. Sometimes it just takes a little to get used to a narrator but not this time. As for the story: I didn’t like the love triangle. I think it’s used too often in young adult literature to be honest. I felt the ending of this book was cut off. Not necessarily rushed but cut off too soon. I feel like I’ve been left hanging. What happens to Hana? Did Lena really choose Alex or not? What happens now after the walls are torn down? We get nothing. I had hoped that my ambivalence of the second book was just a case of a weak middle trilogy book, but this last book didn’t make me feel any better about the series. I like the idea – that love is a disease and society’s role is to cure it, and it came across great in the first book but I just didn’t feel it for these last two books. Not sure I’d recommend the series as a whole.
    • 2/5
      I didn't like it. At all.

      I mean, I LOVED the first two books, but this? Nah. Everything is confusing and what happened did not make sense at all.
      God, I hate the ending.
    • 3/5
      I was a little disappointed. I had enjoyed the first two books and anxiously anticipated this one. It is very slow in parts. I did enjoy how it switched back and forth from Lena and Hana. I think it gave great insight to what was going on from both sides of the movement. I DISLIKE how we are left hanging on to who Lena ends up with. I will say I was pleasantly surprised by the ending and the message she left us with for that alone I recommend the book.
    • 3/5
      Great series, terribly dissatisfying ending. There is so much left unsaid, and so many loose ends. Open endings feel so lazy, as if the author couldn’t decide how to wrap things up.
      I absolutely loved this series, and it deserved a better ending than she gave it.