So I will just warn you now: SPOILER ALERT.
That said, more caps lock... WHAT IS WRONG WITH VERONICA ROTH??! I was looking at how many pages were in the book, and read "Tris' ashes"... Seriously. The girl that we have been following for 3 books dies at the end. Seriously. I was so mad.
But, I think that made it a little bit easier to read, even though I had a pit in my stomach the whole time. Would this chapter be the one where she dies? Would this one?
I still don't think she should have died... I hate movies and books where the main character dies. But perhaps due to my knowing what would happen beforehand, I thought it was done ok. It wasn't super drawn out or terrible. She just gets shot and dies. I am still so mad.
So the premise of the book is that they escape the city (which turns out to be Chicago), and find a compound nearby. It turns out their city is a result of an experiment by the United States government. They had manipulated the genes of people generations back, and realized that was a bad idea. So the Divergent were the people whose genes had been made whole again through generations of reproducing. Why this meant they needed to die in the first book? No idea. But then they realize that there is going to be a rebellion against the rebellion that was against the rebellion that was against the rebellion... you see how it gets repetitive and tiring after a while. Tris manages to save everyone, but not before she receives a fatal gunshot wound and dies from it.
So, overall the series wasn't too bad. It was like "Hunger Games", in that they obviously had not planned for it to be a series and had to stretch the plot further and keep adding twists and turns. Will I go see the movies? Maybe. I'm still smarting from her dying.
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