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Fuck it

*turns into formless blob*

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FIND ME A BOOK SERIES I HATE MORE THAN DIVERGENT I DARE YOU.

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Spoilers and complaints from a person who just finished Allegiant and didn't enjoy it in the slightest. Read More at your own risk.

Since Divergent was gunna be a movie I was like "okay okay I'll read this series" I mean I've heard about it before and then with the last one coming out and there was such a stink about the way it ended and I assumed someone important died and that readers were just reacting badly because their precious OTP couldn't be together forever. Which admittedly I still think is a solid 70% if not 80% of people's reasoning. But as someone who has hated Tris since the first book, I I can say that my reasons for hating Allegiant are like 10% angry Tris died - and not even that she died, but rather how - and the other 90% is that I just think this was an awful book.

I struggled to finish it. I had to force myself to sit down and read it in massive chucks to eliminate my frequency of having to return to it. I just blazed through 140-some pages to finish and nope can't say it was worth it. I mean I'm glad I read them and I get what all the hype/stink is about and I'm still interested in the movie - always curious about adaptions - but I don't know this whole series. Blah.

Essentially, the first book is Tris swapping factions and her training and then in the last 50 pages suddenly we're at war. Book two is the factionless rebellion and her torture/escape, and then the information from the video. Book three is all political, basically. It's all genetically pure or damaged, an element that has been absent for the entire series so far. You can make a case for the Divergent stuff, but that's basically dismissed as being genetically pure and Divergence loses its meaning. I felt like I was reading a horrible analogy for real life right now. All this government conspiracy business and revolutions and right side left side and controlling people and what is power fear or weapons and all of it led up to basically a non-battle in where nothing really happens - the "final battle" is Tris running down a hallway, resisting a serum (surprise!), and then dying by accident because she gets shot. It feels like a waste. She sacrifices herself to save Caleb, but then ultimately dies by chance. Nothing she could have prevented. Nothing she chose. Literally dies by accident. A mismark. (Sure, death happens suddenly all the time - but really?)

And then everyone else, just like, on with their life. All the stuff with Uriah seems unnecessary. Like he was just used as a way of connecting Tobias at the end with other people who have recently lost someone. All the stuff with the compound, that Chicago as a non-experiment now just gets to randomly be a little peaceful place without factions or genetically pure or damaged people. Tris died for nothing because the rest of the world is the same way it was before any of this happened. And why/how on earth does the higher up government just decide to fly with that, letting the compound just - exist like that? It's stupid. The experiments are stupid. I guess you could say that yeah Tris died and helped at least change one place, but her change doesn't even seem believable to me because of how vague the higher up government is.

When I saw that this one was in two perspectives, I knew Tris was gunna die. And even without I think I would've seen it coming because of all the random comments to death and god and her parents and Will and what or who is worth dying for. But to suddenly add a new perspective when the other two books have been without seemed really random. Everything that happened could have been done without Tobias' view point - except her dying. There needed to be a way to end the story without Tris, so I wasn't surprised in the slightest.

And about the two point of views - there were times I'd be halfway through a chapter and forget I'm reading in Tobias' perspective. There was nothing distinguishable in the writing to make me certain I knew whose eyes I was viewing the world from. Very sloppy, very confusing. Characters should have voice. Tris and Tobias sound the same. And don't give me crap about how it's because they're so in love they're practically the same person. Whatever. I still don't even understand their relationship. They seemed held together by circumstance, not actual feelings for one another.

What can I say, I mean I'm glad - I guess - that I read them and I know about the story and admittedly am still interested in how the movies will play out - I mean seriously, do you think non-book readers will take well to having the main lead die off in the last movie? About as well as the book readers, I imagine.

Sigh. It was an interesting idea, I suppose, but completely fell apart in the final book. It introduced new themes that scrambled everything, there were so many (uninteresting, indistinguishable) characters I hardly knew who was who at times, so many plots and plots holes at that. One more rebellion and I was gunna lose it.

I wish it would have ended better. I wish all this government stuff wouldn't have even been involved. Or if it were going to, to have been introduced better. Allegiant feels like it belongs in a completely different series.

Wholeheartedly, I'm glad I'll be able to pick up a new book tonight and leave the world of Divergent behind.

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Question. The compound can't be the only place of government in the world. They can't be the only ones with experiments. Or be like the highest government. It's been mentioned before that there are people the compound answers to. What is to stop the higher government from just wiping out the compound and experiment cities. Why is this particular compound able to be the end all be all. PLOT HOLES FOR MIIIIILES.

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*squinty eyes* she doesn't even die because of the serum she dies from a bullet wound that's dumb

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The fact that Peter just gets to take magic juice and ta da he isn't a horrible person anymore seems like a very, very poor choice to include for children to read.

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PLOT TWIST THEY'RE NEVER GUNNA SEE EACH OTHER AGAIN.