Warning: Spoiler Alert for those who haven't read Delirium!
Lena's mother, Annabel, has always been a mystery—a ghost in Lena's past. Until now.
Discover her secrets in Lauren Oliver's brilliant original digital story set in the world of New York Times bestsellers Delirium and Pandemonium.
Lena Halloway's mother, Annabel, supposedly committed suicide when Lena was only six years old. That's the lie that Lena grew up believing, but the truth is very different. As a rebellious teenager, Annabel ran away from home and straight into the man she knew she was destined to marry. The world was different then—the regulations not as stringent, the cure only a decade old. Fast forward to the present, and Annabel is consigned to a dirty prison cell, where she nurtures her hope of escape and scratches one word over and over into the walls: Love.
But Annabel, like Lena, is a fighter. Through chapters that alternate between her past and present, Annabel reveals the story behind her failed cures, her marriage, the births of her children, her imprisonment, and, ultimately, her daring escape.
Discover her secrets in Lauren Oliver's brilliant original digital story set in the world of New York Times bestsellers Delirium and Pandemonium.
Lena Halloway's mother, Annabel, supposedly committed suicide when Lena was only six years old. That's the lie that Lena grew up believing, but the truth is very different. As a rebellious teenager, Annabel ran away from home and straight into the man she knew she was destined to marry. The world was different then—the regulations not as stringent, the cure only a decade old. Fast forward to the present, and Annabel is consigned to a dirty prison cell, where she nurtures her hope of escape and scratches one word over and over into the walls: Love.
But Annabel, like Lena, is a fighter. Through chapters that alternate between her past and present, Annabel reveals the story behind her failed cures, her marriage, the births of her children, her imprisonment, and, ultimately, her daring escape.
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My Review
I feel like Annabel shouldn’t be labeled 0.5 in the Delirium
series. Kind of a spoiler if you haven’t
read Delirium first.
Annabel is Lena’s mom.
This novella is very short but I feel like it gives us just enough to
get to know Annabel. It’s told from two
different POVs, Now and Then. When
Annabel was young, when the cure was just being administered as mandatory and
then when she’s in the Crypts.
It’s definitely sad to read about how much life she has and
how much she wants to love her daughters.
She feels as though she has to apologize to an unborn Lena for the world
she’s about to be born into. How sad is
that? Annabel was really a depressing
little novella but I really enjoyed being inside her head, knowing what she was
like when she was younger, how she met Lena’s dad. And then eventually to her escaping from the
Crypts.
I just wish we could have gotten a bit more after she
escaped and bit more of her and Conrad’s relationship.
Overall, a great insight.
Inside Outside
Characters 4/5 Cover 4/5
Plot 4/5
Feels 5/5
Writing 5/5
Overall 4.6/5
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