Requiem discussion

While I think Delirium would have been an amazing stand alone, I didn't mind the ending of Requiem.

I liked the openness of it. It allowed me some room to think about it on my own. I thought the ending passages about taking down the walls were absolutely beautiful.

On top of all that, I thought it was a daring move by Lauren Oliver. There are very few books out there with an ending like this. Sometimes, life doesn't always give us a happy ending. Lauren Oliver gave us just a glimmer of hope for this world - kind of like Gatsby reaching towards the green light. I don't know if that comparison really worked...

Lastly, I think reading about another war/rebellion would have been boring. It would have been so repetitive.

Is there anyone else that was satisfied with the end of this book?

You know my problem with Requiem isn't really the ending, I mean did I prefer it if it wasn't open? Sure and did the passages about breaking the walls seem preachy and unLena-ish? Yes , but that's all fine and acceptable.
The rest of a book was such a bore the only interesting parts, for me , were the Hana ones. So I don't mind the ending... just the book :p

Garima, I thoroughly agree with you. I think that the ending was very well done, in that it wasn't overly optimistic, but it was realistic. While not much was resolved in some ways, it almost never is in real life, and we need to find the strength to press on in our lives, even though we may not know what the future holds.
I was concerned as I was approaching the end, and this was partially because I had just finished the Divergent series, and was still slightly traumatized by that ending, but this series was well done. The only part I got upset over in the series was when Alex was discovered, and that was mainly because I knew there was about to be a lot of agony for her, and I would end up in tears as well.

im with the folks that aren't necessarily against the ending because it was so open since i agree that it's ok to think about things for myself, i just feel like there was a bit too much that was open ended. While we get a sense of where things were going for some of the mains, there were a few adjunct characters that were never given closure and since i don't think that there's much in the plans for novellas - i think that we're just left to wonder a bit.

The other bit too though especially is that we are brought back into the present with Hana and i think that she could use another novella or spin off and i don't know that it was ever the intention. oh well. i think that it was a good series nonetheless.

I thought the ending was very interesting in the way it was structured. I don't usually prefer open-ended endings but I thought for the most part that there was just the right amount of information told to us with the rest left open for us to imagine. I did wish we had a little more direction for some of the characters, especially Hana, (and especially after reading the novellas) but overall I thought it was well done.

My problem wasn't with what happens in the ending, but the fact that it wasn't really an ending at all. There was no resolution for almost anything. Which makes most of the series entirely pointless. I don't like wasting my time and with no ending, that's exactly what I did.

Kristen wrote: "My problem wasn't with what happens in the ending, but the fact that it wasn't really an ending at all. There was no resolution for almost anything. Which makes most of the series entirely pointles..."

Thank you, Kristen! How in the world can this be the last book in the series? For all we know, a fresh batch of regulators come and completely mow down the invalids hacking at the wall! Does Lena choose Alex, Julian, both, neither? Does Hana just keep aimlessly walking off the face of the earth?

But don't get me wrong, this series totally rocked and I hold Oliver up as one of my favorite YA authors. But the ending just really bugged me.

Matt wrote: "Kristen wrote: "My problem wasn't with what happens in the ending, but the fact that it wasn't really an ending at all. There was no resolution for almost anything. Which makes most of the series e..."

I wasn't really bothered with the openness of her relationships with Alex and Julian. It seemed to be implied, at least to me, that she was choosing Alex. Or at least, she was going to give him a chance.
It's the rest of it like you said. We have no idea whether they were all annihilated in the following hours, days, weeks, or months by the system that quite possibly barely suffered anywhere else in the country. Not to mention the remnant still left where they actually were. And Hannah and Raven bugged me alot too.

I like Oliver's stories alot too, but I probably won't read any more of them. She did the same kind of garbage with her other book. Apparently, it's her 'thing'.