(Currently planning: Persona 4, Shadow of Colossus, Ocarina of Time, El Shaddai and Tales of Vesperia)
Read 10 short stories (collections count as ‘1’ because I’m cruel).Read 35 books (focussing on the for review pile, the personal to-read pile, comics and some non-fiction).I’m thinking of using a theme that focusses more on my books, a writing portfolio of sorts. Post more sketchbook and work in progress images.Get 12 illustrations done throughout the year.Bonus points if I manage to write some short stories.After that, the beta readers will get a taste!
Planning to do this in February or in March.
It’s a fairly involved plan so we’ll see how it goes, though I achieved much more last year than I ever expected to. My plans for 2013 have a heavy focus on personal creativity, then personal culture, and then being more social/getting involved in the writing community. I bought a copy of this novel myself for personal reading, but I’ll note that Hodder & Stoughton have previously provided me with review copies of “Delirium” and “Requiem” in exchange for honest reviews.įiled Under: Reviews Tagged With: book review, Books, delirium, dystopian, lauren oliver, pandemonium, reading, sci-fi, teen, YA, ya dystopian, ya sci fi, young adultģ1 December, 2012 Emma’s Big 2013 To-Do Listīecause I like numbers! And I like lists! I’ll be looking forward to reading and reviewing “Requiem” closer to its March release date. While a lot of middle trilogy books can be weak and plotless, “Pandemonium” is miles stronger than “Delirium” and restored my faith in Lauren Oliver’s writing. I’m very happy with how “Pandemonium” turned out. The two story lines also alternated nicely, with very little opportunity for confusion, up until the merging point which felt a bit unclearly defined. The scenery descriptions are nicely done, though occasionally repetitive (snow seems to crackle a lot in the Wilds), and the new characters introduced are varied and feel like they have a lot of depth to them. Oliver also expands the world laid out in the previous novel, taken it from a sketched-out dystopia into a realistic future society with a lot of moral grey areas. Lena is a stronger person, even as she deals with her grief over “Delirium”‘s events realistically, and she’s a much more enjoyable character to follow this time round. It’s a much tighter-written and ambitious book than “Delirium” was, alternating between the past and the present as Lena adjusts to a hard, scraping-for-survival life in the unregulated Wilds outside the city (‘before’) and sneaks into New York City to tail the son of the president of Deliria-Free America, an organisation that viciously promotes the idea that love is a disease and the only safe humans are those ‘cured’ by a lobotomy-like procedure (‘after’).
PANDEMONIUM LAUREN OLIVER TOUGH QUESTIONS FULL
Thankfully, “Pandemonium” was full of pleasant surprises.
I also get grumpy about the UK cover redesigns, though “Pandemonium” and upcoming final book “Requiem” have much nicer covers and I’ve actually grown to like them and how they fit in with the “Before I Fall” cover. While I loved her debut, “Before I Fall”, and the concept of “Delirium”, the actual book left me flat due to it’s confusing ending. I’ve had a complicated relationship so far with Lauren Oliver.
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