Review: Divergent Trilogy

THIS WHOLE SERIES SUCKS!

Okay, okay, maybe I'm being rude, mean, and inconsiderate of the time Veronica Roth put into her debut series. Regardless of the work she put in, which I wholeheartedly believe was mostly thrown away foolishly in her third book, these three books would have seriously benefited from a better editor, a second read through, and, to put it bluntly, a different author. 

Why?

They successively got worse, and with each book my hatred of the main protagonist grew. And that's not a goal authors strive for, people.

I actually found myself cheering for Tris' (the main character) boyfriend, Tobias, more than I did her. She's impulsive, self-punishing, eagerly, unnecessarily sacrificial, and just a sobby hormonal angry mess. While she does have her good moments where she's relatable and likeable, specifically in Divergent, those moments grow fewer and more far between with each installation. 

When I heard that movies were going to be made about this series, I cringed. Divergent will be a great movie. It's got action, humor, and romance, as well as a dystopian, based-off-a-book setting that's hot in the box office right now. However, Insurgent will not translate well into theaters, and Allegiant will, without a doubt cause many of the people who loved the first movie to throw popcorn at the screen and grumble at all of Tris' poor decisions. 

That all said, I don't want to discourage any one from reading Divergent. It is a great book with many twists, turns, and surprises. Despite it's thickness its a relatively quick read that starts off slow; once it picks up, it goes a mile a minute. The end will have you on the edge of your seat, so to speak, and therefore I wouldn't even say no to reading Insurgent. Just be prepared for disappointment after disappointment. The ending of Insurgent seems to promise greatness, give reason as to why you sat through a mediocre book, but trust me. 

Allegiant is not worth it. Period. Veronica Roth seriously spat on the world she carefully fabricated for her readers in Divergent and Allegiant and it's beyond disappointing. Even her writing is sub-par throughout the series, but while it is passable in the first two books because of decent plot and characterization, it is unacceptable by the third.