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A review by vail484mro
Divergent by Veronica Roth
1.0
*DISCLAIMER* this is a review of the ENTIRE SERIES because I'm too lazy to review each one individually.
The entire series had great potential, but, ultimately, lacked in execution.
I really enjoyed Divergent (meaning, the first book). I liked Tris and Tobias (mainly because I love a strong female character and the bad boy type in books) and I thought that the different factions were very interesting. I liked seeing Tris develop and thought that her battling her feelings with "betraying" her faction and family was not too over the top and well done. When I finished reading the book, I was really looking forward to reading Insurgent.
Insurgent was okay. It was definitely a step down from Divergent, but I still read it pretty quickly. It was just eh. Not spectacular, but I still enjoyed it.
Lastly, Allegiant was... indescribably bad. The entire time (expect for when Tris snuck out to the slums with that girl, which was, by the way, so unnecessary. Those scenes were just filling space and had almost no affect at all on the story) the main cast of characters was just casually watching their world fall apart on the monitors. The only good part about this book was that Tris and Tobias learned what's going on (their parents, the system they grew up in, what was going on outside, etc). The ending was so unsatisfying. My main issue was that all that they had fought for in books 1 and 2 was just cast aside because they weren't even involved anymore. They were just watching everything collapse. This book is the reason I have lost all my respect for the series and Veronica Roth as a writer.
Overall, I really don't understand why this series got so much hype. Usually, I am not a nit-picky reader and can look over a few plot holes, but Allegiant just destroyed the plot and made books 1 and 2 seem so irrelevant and unimportant.
The entire series had great potential, but, ultimately, lacked in execution.
I really enjoyed Divergent (meaning, the first book). I liked Tris and Tobias (mainly because I love a strong female character and the bad boy type in books) and I thought that the different factions were very interesting. I liked seeing Tris develop and thought that her battling her feelings with "betraying" her faction and family was not too over the top and well done. When I finished reading the book, I was really looking forward to reading Insurgent.
Insurgent was okay. It was definitely a step down from Divergent, but I still read it pretty quickly. It was just eh. Not spectacular, but I still enjoyed it.
Lastly, Allegiant was... indescribably bad. The entire time (expect for when Tris snuck out to the slums with that girl, which was, by the way, so unnecessary. Those scenes were just filling space and had almost no affect at all on the story) the main cast of characters was just casually watching their world fall apart on the monitors. The only good part about this book was that Tris and Tobias learned what's going on (their parents, the system they grew up in, what was going on outside, etc). The ending was so unsatisfying. My main issue was that all that they had fought for in books 1 and 2 was just cast aside because they weren't even involved anymore. They were just watching everything collapse. This book is the reason I have lost all my respect for the series and Veronica Roth as a writer.
Overall, I really don't understand why this series got so much hype. Usually, I am not a nit-picky reader and can look over a few plot holes, but Allegiant just destroyed the plot and made books 1 and 2 seem so irrelevant and unimportant.