Initial Impressions:Immediate reaction is somewhere between 4 and 4.5 stars. Liked it more than Pandemonium but not more than Delirium. 
 Review originally posted on The Book Addict's Guide: I was SO NERVOUS to start REQUIEM!!!! I've heard quite a few mixed reviews from fellow bloggers and I was positively terrified to read the conclusion to one of my favorite trilogies/series, especially when quite a few people were disappointed in it. So where I my opinion shake out? I liked it more than I liked PANDEMONIUM but it still didn't compare to when I first fell in love with DELIRIUM. So let's talk! 
 One of the things I was the most apprehensive and yet curious about was the fact that REQUIEM is alternating chapters between Lena's POV and Hana's POV. I read the short story about Hana and was quite intrigued but I wasn't quite sure how the book would shake out hearing her side of things. When it came down to it, I really enjoyed the alternating narrators. From Hana we get the view of Portland through the eyes of a Cured. Everything we see is much more organized and calm versus Lena's passion and her messy, ferocious approach to life in the Wilds. The reason I loved the dual POVs so much was because we're back in the Portland I knew from Delirium again. I got really lost in Pandemonium for a while because of the unfamiliar settings (something which happens to me often in book two...) and I felt like I was anchored back to the place I first met these characters and all of the emotions I had when reading the first book. It also pains me a little to say that I kind of liked Hana's story line better than I liked Lena's. I still felt a little lost in the Wilds and I think with Hana being anchored in Portland and unraveling a mystery of her own, I actually latched onto her story more than Lena's more chaotic one. 
 Another thing I was nervous about was Lena's affections for both Julian and Alex. I've been Team Alex all throughout Pandemonium but guys... Julian start to grow on me and I did NOT see that coming. Lauren Oliver does a great job of making the reader like Julian; he's a good guy who got himself tangled with a girl who loves someone else and sometimes you can't help but feel for him. My feelings actually got a bit mixed up and turned around throughout REQUIEM. I wanted to root for both guys, but at the same time, my heart was still on Alex's side. It's a very interesting love triangle (FOR ONCE) and it's one that I feel was actually done well because this may be the first time I almost had a hard time picking which guy to root for! 
 As far as the plot goes? All dystopians seem to reach a point nowadays where the fight vs. the "Society" gets a little too political for me. Since we're seeing REQUIEM from the eyes of two girls who are closely related to the political side but still somewhat on the fringes of it, the whole resistance movement and constant battle made it a bit easier to stomach. We see a lot of battles that are lesser parts of the war and REQUIEM leads us to how this whole war wraps up. I won't say anything specifically about the end, but what I WILL say is that it all ended a bit too quickly for me. Lena & Hana are obviously in their own worlds, telling their own stories, but I was constantly anticipating when they would collide and intertwine. I wanted a little more interaction between the two stories to really tie the whole book together. Once they finally do meet up, I was like, "NO WAY there's still so much that needs to happen and there aren't that many pages left!!!" I was loving the action that was going on and I wished we had spent a little more time there than in the Wilds, yaknowhatImean? 
 Anyway, overall, I liked the book - not quite to the point of adoring it like I did with the first book, but of course it's a must-read for fans of the series. I can see where other people were disappointed but I did still enjoy it, even though there were a lot of things I was disappointed with.