Pandemonium (2012) (edit title/settings)

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• Lena Morgan Jones: The protagonist of the story. She has escaped from Portland into the Wilds. Loves Alex, who she believes was killed during their botched escape. Formerly known as Lena Ella Haloway.
• Alex Sheathes: A teenage boy from the Wilds otherwise known as an Invalid. The boy Lena fell in love with and showed her that love is not a disease. Presumed dead.
• Raven: Homestead leader in the Wilds. 21 years old with black hair.
• Julian Fineman: The charismatic son of Thomas Fineman. Has wavy blond hair and striking blue eyes. He is the leader of the youth division of Delirium-Free America.
• Thomas Fineman: The head of the DFA. A very "respectable" man. Julian's father
• Tack: One of the people at Raven's homestead. Is described as dark and withdrawn.
• Hana: Lena's wealthy, stunningly gorgeous best friend, yet with a rebellious side to her. Believed to be cured in November.
• Hunter: One of the people at Raven's homestead. Is open and friendly, and is an Unnatural.
• Grace Tribble: Grace is Lena's eight-year-old, mute cousin. Lena feels responsible for and very close to her. Lena left her behind in Portland.
• Carol Tribble: Carol is Lena's cured aunt, with whom she lived. Is obsessed with making the right impression. Lena left Carol behind in Portland.
• Blue: One of the people at Raven's homestead. She is a little girl who reminds Lena of Gracie.
• Coin: A physically deformed woman who lives with a group of people underground.
• Sarah Beth Miller: The ID Lena took from the DFA storeroom which she uses to infiltrate the laboratory where they plan to execute Julian
• Dr. Hillebrand: Julian's primary. The doctor who will execute Julian.
• Annabel Giles Haloway: Lena's mother... believed to have committed suicide when Lena was six years old. Instead, she was being held captive in solitary confinement in Ward Six of the Crypts as a Level 8 Agitator until she escaped by tunnelling out. Lena learns that her prisoner intake number is 5996 and that this is the same person who rescued her from the Salvage.
• Rat-man: one of the Invalids who stays underground... Rat-man is the one who leads Lena and Julian above ground
• Albino: one of the Scavengers who's holding Lena and Julian

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• “If you take, we will take back. Steal from us, and we will rob you blind. When you squeeze, we will hit. This is the way the world is made now.”

  Lena in her thoughts

• “But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins.”

  Lena

• “Don't believe her.”

  A.S

• “Everything you were, the life you had, the people you knew...dust. There is no before. There is only now, and what comes next.”

  Raven

• “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

• “Grief is like sinking, like being buried. I am in water the tawny color of kicked-up dirt. Every breath is choking. There is nothing to hold on to, no sides, no way to claw myself up. There is nothing to do but left go.”

  Lena

• “A world without love is also a world without stakes.”

  Lena

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• Portland
• The Wilds
• New York
• 37 Brooks: An abandoned house in Deerfield Heights where Lena and Alex used to spend time together.
• The Crypts: Portland's prison and insane asylum.
• The Craps: New York's larger version of the Crypts.

Organizations edit see section history

• DFA: Stands for Deliria-Free America, an organization which aims to eradicate love.

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Glossary edit see section history

• Deliria: The disease that is love.
• Cureds: Those who have undergone the operation to get rid of deliria, or in the case that they've never had deliria, to become 'immune'
• Invalids: Those have not been cured and have crossed the border into the Wilds. Or grown-up/born there.
• Scavengers: A group of people who are against the DFA and the cure. They resort to violence and havoc to make their point.
• Unnatural: Homosexuals or anyone who expresses more feeling (like loving instead of contentedness)

Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by Delirium, and followed by Requiem.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Lauren Oliver (Author)

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Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Teens › Literature & Fiction › Love & Romance
• Books › Teens › Science Fiction & Fantasy
• Books › Children's Books › Literature › Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery & Horror

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• Lauren Oliver - Official Author's Website

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