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I'm so glad I read the books after discovering the series through the films. I am so in love with these books. The characters are so complex with real struggles, Roth does an amazing job of avoiding "good vs bad" and really explores the idea of good people bad choices and the difficulties of knowing what the right thing even is in such hard situations.

I cried my eyes out for the last several chapters!

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harrypotterfan33's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

Oh my god!!! I mean, it was certainly a roller coaster ride! <spolier>TRIS DIED. URIAH DIED. CALEB DIDN'T DIE. I HAVE NO EMOTION LEFT NOW.</spolier> Good read. Amazing Y.A books. A tense and emotional finish to the Divergent series. There's still hope. Be brave and have a great day!

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hunternichole14's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging hopeful mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Love this series

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ghostisalive's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

god, i don't have words. i'm happy i read such a great series however i'd be lying if i said i'm not sobbing over that ending :(( i love that it was something unexpected and not what everyone wanted just hate that it destroyed me
<3

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nienora's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Very average. Definitely better than the second one. I liked dual pov, it's nice not having to listen to Tris all the time.

Worldbuilding makes no sense, science behind it makes no scenes. First of all "murder gene", seriously that's the best tittle you could come up with? There's a reason inbreeding isn't good, because you're not bringing new pool of genes to pick and choose from to create better offsprings. And you expect to somehow magically "heal genetically damaged" by locking them in a city. Also you put bunch of "damaged" people together without any sort of guidance and expect them not to turn to chaos?? But what can you expect from generic YA dystopia, I don't know why I'm still surprised by it after so many pages.

Tris and Four actually communicated, I'm so happy because that's the only time they're interesting. There was a moment when they were angry and jealous of each other but that got resolved super quickly, so I wasn't annoyed that much.
I keep forgetting that Four is 18 years old and that's why he's stupid. Apparently he likes Tris because she is "tiny and fragile", like his ego. And she likes him because he's big and strong. But they choose each other, over and over again, even though everything they went through showed they don't work well together. But they keep choosing each other and that somehow makes it okay.

Tris should've died from the "death serum" (another very creative name) and not from a bullet. But she died at the end so I'll let it pass. Ending was good actually. Everything wrapped up nicely, they all slowly moved on, established new order in the city, the usual.

All in all, there's reason no one talk about this series anymore. It's just not memorable, it got lost between so many others like it. It lacked a message, critique of our society as it is. There was some attempt, but it wasn't good.

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dani_y3ll's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

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kybearbroski's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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