Pandemonium

I was surprised by how much I got into this! I read [b:Delirium 11614718 Delirium (Delirium, #1) Lauren Oliver http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1327890411s/11614718.jpg 10342808] a couple years ago when it was new, and I think I just had like, dystopia fatigue. But now I've been off dystopias for awhile and I took the audiobook of this since it was about the same length as the trip to my parents' house, and also I just read [b:Liesl & Po 10425811 Liesl & Po Lauren Oliver http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1298937848s/10425811.jpg 14615333] and was feeling favorably toward Lauren Oliver.I meant to read a summary of Delirium before I left, but I forgot to do so, but I basically did okay at getting Pandemonium. She does a good job of feeding you back the stuff you need to know.Also I think maybe the first book had a lot of heavy lifting to do with worldbuilding and in this one things are more established and Lena has more adventures and such?? IDK IDK. Whatever, I'm into it, and I put myself on the list for [b:Requiem 9593913 Requiem (Delirium, #3) Lauren Oliver http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1340992438s/9593913.jpg 14480925] & will def be reading it as soon as possible.Readalikes include basically every other YA dystopia, whatever.The audiobook I felt neither subtracted or added to the experience. The reader was fine, but not one of those were I would say the audiobook was way better than the text book. It was a good car book though because it's pretty fast paced and exciting.oh and one of my favorite thing was how Raven is like too tough and Lena runs away to save Julien and she's thinking she's done with the revolution forever but then Raven realizes she was wrong and comes to help. I think it's nice to see that kind of character development and friendship or w/e, and I think a lot of authors would have gone for the "Lena and Julien against the world, no one understands!!" narrative, but I really appreciated that Raven etc came to help. YAY!Oh and I liked that there was a canonically queer couple in a way that was like realistic and casual but also kind of a big deal because homosexuality is illegal in this dystopia? It'd be cool if our protagonist were queer but, you know, better than nothing. Or maybe that will be the twist in the 3rd book!!