


"Before starting, readers should turn off their cellphones and wipe their schedules clean, because once they open the book, they won’t be able to stop. Requiem is told from both Lena and Hana's points of view. The bottom line: The last book in the Delirium series, Requiem is full of surprises, told in the same lush, beautiful prose of Lauren Oliver, with a satisfying, simple ending. Regulators infiltrate the borderlands to stamp out the rebels.Īs 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. Pockets of rebellion have opened throughout the country, and the government cannot deny the existence of Invalids. Parents need to know that Requiem is the final installment in author Lauren Olivers best-selling Delirium trilogy, a dystopian series that explores issues. But the Wilds are no longer a safe haven. This is what they warned me about for all those years: the heavy weight in my chest, the nightmare-fragments that follow me even in the waking life.Īfter rescuing Julian from a death sentence, Lena and her friends fled to the Wilds. It bubbles up through the cracks when I'm not paying attention, and pulls me with its greedy fingers. Since Alex reappeared, resurrected but also changed, twisted, like a monster from one of the ghost stories we used to tell as kids, the past has been finding its way in.
