Author: Veronica Roth
Series: Divergent [3]
Rating: 4/5
Summary:
The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered—fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she’s known, Tris is ready. Perhaps beyond the fence, she and Tobias will find a simple new life together, free from complicated lies, tangled loyalties, and painful memories.
But Tris’s new reality is even more alarming than the one she left behind. Old discoveries are quickly rendered meaningless. Explosive new truths change the hearts of those she loves. And once again, Tris must battle to comprehend the complexities of human nature—and of herself—while facing impossible choices about courage, allegiance, sacrifice, and love.
Review:
For those of you who remember, I had the countdown ticker for this book on this blog for at least a month before it was released, and at least a month after it released. I bought it early and started it the day it came out, then put it down for almost 4 months. It lost my attention and school grabbed my free time. FINALLY though, I finished it, just a couple weeks ago.
For those who haven't read this book or haven't read either of the others (and don't want spoilers) turn back now and go read one of my other fun posts, the spoiling will begin after the picture.
^My thoughts exactly, and yes at the end I ended up almost crying in public. This is why you don't read emotional books in public! Except I didn't expect it to be emotional, I expected it to be predictable with a quasi-happy ending like every other book series with a "hero."
I'm not going to say I loved Tris and wish she hadn't have died, because really I liked her, and she was a good person, but she was human and definitely shouldn't have been impervious to everything, highly divergent or not.
I did like her death in a way because it made a piece of dystopian fiction more real. The characters weren't superheros and they weren't super human. And even though Tobias was amazing, he wasn't divergent like everyone thought, and he went through an identity crisis because of it!
Biggest problem I faced in this book was that I didn't remember who everyone was by the time I reached this book because I had read the other two back when Insurgent came out. I could have looked up the characters, sure, but I don't do that.
I loved the paradoxes and life questions that seemed to face the reader at every turn, even if we didn't realize it. For example:
“Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.”It gives you life questions and a lot of their lives were about making choices where they seemingly had none. I'm sure I'm not the only one who has felt like that.
I just... I liked this book, not as much as the first two, but I love the direction it took. I like that I didn't predict the end, and I liked that it incorporated human nature in "our world" back into the equation.
What do you guys think? I give it:
