‘If you’re smart, you care. And if you care, you love.’
Love, the deadliest of all deadly things. It kills you when you have it. And when you don’t. 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.
Lena Haloway’s been to the very edge. She’s questioned everything she’s ever been taught and fought for love and the life-changing and agonising emotions that come with it.
But now, while she may have escaped the tyranny of the government, she is headng into the heart of something that could be just as dangerous – a growing resistance movement where the sparks of a revolution are about to ignite…
Lena made her decision. But can she survive the consequences?
The second book in Lauren Oliver’s New York Times bestselling trilogy about forbidden love, revolution and the power to choose.
TROPES
Forbidden love
Dystopian setting
Arranged marriage
Police state
READERS LOVE THE SERIES ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
‘A beautiful and intense story’
‘It surpassed all of my expectations’
‘It broke my already-brittle heart’
‘I didn’t want to put down’
‘Then WHAM! The most intense ending of my life!’
Reviews
Fast paced and consistently poignant, this tale quickly becomes hypnotically addictive ... A thoughtful, exciting and moving story that reminds us just how important love is. Devour it, then go and give all your friends a big hug.
A dystopian Romeo and Juliet story that deserves to be as massive as Twilight.
Amazing, unputdownable!
We're big fans of Lauren Oliver and this is the emotionally charged follow-up to last year's futuristic love story DELIRIUM. With echoes of Brave New World, we catch up with young heroine Lena as she attempts to survive in the dangerous Wilds . . . Now we just have to wait for the final episode in the trilogy.
In the same mode as Suzanne Collins in her Hunger Games trilogy, Oliver, too, posits a feisty, physically able heroine, giving as good as she gets, in a fast-paced YA thriller: this trend is a welcome one.
The new Hunger Games . . . We loved the first two books, and spring sees the publication of the final instalment . . . With a movie trilogy in the pipeline too, you'd better get reading!
Lena Haloway's journey will have readers breathlessly turning the pages . . . A dystopian tour de force.