Pandemonium
Record details
- ISBN: 006197806X (tr. bdg.)
- ISBN: 9780061978067 (tr. bdg.)
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Physical Description:
375 p. ; 22 cm.
print - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2012.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Sequel to: Delirium. |
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Subject: | Government, Resistance to Fiction |
Genre: | Romance fiction. Science fiction. |
Available copies
- 1 of 2 copies available at Kenton County.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Erlanger Branch | YA OLIVE L (Text) | 33126021081124 | YA Fiction | Available | - |
Independence Branch | YA OLIVE L (Text) | 33126018676696 | YA Fiction | Checked out | 05/06/2024 |
- Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews Newsletter
Here is the sequel to the "love hurts" dystopia, Delirium, a strong series start that appeared last spring. In Lena's world, love is both a disease and a crime, eradicated by means of an inoculating surgery that fosters a society of emotionless zombies. After the loss of her true love, Alex, Lena makes her way into the Wilds and joins the organized resistance. From there, she is sent on a mission to New York to attract the attention of the establishment's favorite son, Julian Fineman. The sheltered poster-child for DFA-Deliria Free America-Julian has no experience with emotion until a forced confinement with Lena brings out his human nature and thaws her grieving heart. The cliffhanger ending ramps up the stakes in a story that continues to deliver. Oliver will be at BEA with her new middle-grade book, The Spindlers, to be published in October. Readers will have to wait until 2013 for Requiem, in whichLena's and Julian's fates will be revealed. - "35 Going on 13" LJ Reviews 5/17/12 (c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. - School Library Journal Reviews : SLJ Reviews 2012 March
Gr 9 UpâFollowing directly on the heels of Delirium (HarperCollins, 2011), Pandemonium is equally riveting. It shifts back and forth between "then," as readers discover how Lena adapts to her life in the Wilds even as she grieves for Alex, and "now" where she is infiltrating the DFA, an organization committed to offering the "cure" to all citizens regardless of their age in spite of the known risks to anyone under the age of 18. She begins to have feelings for Julian, the son of the leader of the DFA, when they are incarcerated together following a mass demonstration. They discover they have more in common than they could have imagined despite their initial mutual antipathy and distrust. Oliver's descriptions of life in the unregulated Wilds with its deprivations and dangers are powerful and vivid. The characters are fully realized and heartbreakingly human. The underlying theme that love will win out regardless of prohibition is a powerful idea that will speak to teens. Readers who gravitate toward dystopian literature with high-stakes action and flawed humans who are willing to risk all for their ideals will enjoy this novel and eagerly await the next one in the trilogy.âJane Henriksen Baird, Anchorage Public Library, AK
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