En smakebit på søndag: Requiem

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Den norska bokbloggaren “Flukten fra virkeligheten” har varje söndag en rolig liten utmaning där man ska skriva ner en liten smakbit av boken man läser för tillfället. Just nu läser jag bland annat ”Requiem” av Lauren Oliver och här kommer min smakbit;

Handling:
They have tried to squeeze us out, to stamp us into the past.

But we are still here.

And there are more of us every day.

Now an active member of the resistance, Lena has been transformed. The nascent rebellion that was under way in Pandemonium has ignited into an all-out revolution in Requiem, and Lena is at the center of the fight.

After rescuing Julian from a death sentence, Lena and her friends fled to the Wilds. But the Wilds are no longer a safe haven—pockets of rebellion have opened throughout the country, and the government cannot deny the existence of Invalids. Regulators now infiltrate the borderlands to stamp out the rebels, and as Lena navigates the increasingly dangerous terrain, her best friend, Hana, lives a safe, loveless life in Portland as the fiancée of the young mayor.

Maybe we are driven crazy by our feelings.

Maybe love is a disease, and we would be better off without it.

But we have chosen a different road.

And in the end, that is the point of escaping the cure: We are free to choose.

We are even free to choose the wrong thing.

15985638”Go,” Pippa says. ”Don’t worry. I’ll meet you at the safe house.”
Raven stares at her for a few more seconds, and then begins to turn around again.
Then Pippa calls, ”But if I’m not there in three days, don’t wait.”
Her voice never loses its calm. And I know, now, what the look was that I saw earlier in her eyes. It was beyond calm. It was resignation. It was the look of someone who knows she will die.
We leave Pippa behind, standing in the dark, teemin bowels of the camp, while the sun begins to stain the sky electric, and from all sides the guns draw closer.

17 reaktioner till “En smakebit på søndag: Requiem

  1. Å, den må jeg få lest snart! Den står på leselisten og jeg ser de nav og til på jobb. Men jeg har ikke hatt tid til den enda. :-) Ha en fin søndag!

  2. Har hatt serien på leselisten min lenge, håper det ikke er så alt for lenge til jeg får tid å lese de:) Takk for påminnelsen. Kos deg med boken!

  3. Säger samma som Caroline- ser dem titt som tätt:). Får nog ta och skriva upp den på att läsa listan;).

  4. Jeg har hørt mye om denne trilogien på youtube og har veldig lyst til å lese dem, men er samtidig litt usikker. Takk for smakebit og ha en fin kveld:)

    1. Än så länge är jag mycket nöjd med hela trilogin och jag har ungefär 20% kvar av sista boken :)

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