If you want something, if you take it for your own, you’ll always be taking it from someone else. That’s what animals do.Īt our heart, at our base, we are no better than animals. And eventually they’ll show their true colors again. Paint them any color you want, send them halfway around the world, but they’ll always find a way back. We need mantras, I guess – stories we tell ourselves to keep us going.īirds feed then they nest. Quotable QuotesĪ world without love is also a world without stakes. The ending was epic and I can’t wait to read the next book. They want to take down everything – burn everything to dust, steal and slaughter and save the world to flame. The Scavengers. They are also invalids, but they don’t stand for anything. Will she really do it? Is Alex still alive? Will Julian be his last man? ![]() She learned that there are some beliefs of the resistance that coincides with what she believes and decided to be on her own. She decided to move on with her life and gave herself a chance towards happiness through Julian. I can say that in this phase, Lena learned to know what she really wanted to do. Although, she’s still grieving over Alex, she continues to live each day. Lena Morgan Jones. The new Lena is very different from the past one she learned ho to live and survive in the wilds. I just hope that no one dies in the last book. But of course, Alex and Lena are a package deal so I don’t know how this love triangle will end. I felt like cheating at Alex and at some point I even started to believe that Alex is already gone and won’t come back. At first, I can’t picture them together but then Julian eventually gained my sympathy. He became acutely aware that the world he lives in might not be what it seems to be. He became conscious with the opposite sex and began to open up about his life and what he really believes. When he and Lena got tangled in a kidnapping incident, he developed a special feeling for Lena without meaning too. He’s pictured as the martyr son who in spite of facing danger from undergoing the procedure for deliria, he’s still willing to sacrifice his self for the betterment of the society as he was led to believe. He’s the son of one of the most powerful supporter of DFA (Deliria Free America). Even his unblinking expression as he watches his father onstage is perfection and practice, the embodiment of a cured’s controlled detachment. If you have read the first book, then you probably know him already. His hair is caramel blond and wavy, and hangs to his mid-jawline. He has a different personality compared to tack. He’s a guy with a happy disposition in life. ![]() It didn’t happen though they became friends. Pale blond hair. I thought he’s going to have a romantic liaison with Lena, and I was disappointed. He always has a scowl on his face and some mistook it as being angry but that is just his nature. Black haired guy. He’s raven’s male counterpart. She found and took care of Lena when she first came into the woods she acts like she fears no one and is not emotionally weak but deep inside she’s like any ordinary girl. Black hair, a pointed nose, bright green eyes, thin tight mouth, and creases at the corner’s of her eyes, and hands as rough as willow, as big as baskets. So she acts as the leader of the group in the wilds. ![]() Readers will love this book even more because there are new book boyfriends. There are a lot of characters introduced but i will only include the major ones. Now is the time after the incident when the invalids where again bombed by the cured. Then was when Lena first came into the woods after her escape from the Zombieland. The story is told in alternating settings: the then and the now. ![]() I feel like “oh I think this will happen next” but then it turns out the other way. What I love about this book is that it is unpredictable. I have to digest every event that unfolds for me to fully appreciate the story. That’s what happened to me with this book. There are some delicacies where you have to fully chew the food for you to appreciate the flavor. Second, I feel like I have to pause now and then for every chapter I finish so that the details of the story will sink in to my memory. One of the reasons was I found the pacing slow but I totally understand why the author wrote it this way. It took me a couple of days to finish this one. This series keeps getting better and better. In this follow-up to Delirium, Lena is on a dangerous course that takes her through the unregulated “Wilds” and into the heart of a growing resistance movement.
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