Divergent
I feel far too exhausted to be writing this review. I spent the day timekeeping in the sun and now everything is red. Oh Boy.
Anyway, here I am pushing through like the dedicated bookworm I am! I'm really not sure what you want me to say about Divergent. It is pretty big in the bookworld and there is a movie about it so I kinda think that you probably don't need me to tell you what it's about... I'm going to anyway! It is the dystopian tale of sixteen year old Tris who abandons her faction to become part of the Dauntless. Yepp, that's all I've got, sorry not sorry. I really did enjoy it. I did see the movie at the cinema though so I already knew what was happening. I didn't think it was a stupidly awful book like I sometimes hear. However I didn't think that it was worth all the hype it gets either. It was just a really good dystopian book. That's it. Am I going to read the rest of the series you ask... I'm already half way through Insurgent. :) Rate: 8/10 Pages: 489 Format: Paperback Acquired from: Big W |
Insurgent
Book 2.
Reviewing series is always so hard because I want to talk about everything that is happening but I also don't want to spoil anything for those who haven't read the first installments. The art is finding a balance, and let me just say before I try, that I have never been very good at art of any form... The tension between the factions has finally broken and Tris, being the Divergent she is, struggles to find just one allegiance. How is she supposed to know who to trust when no one is trustworthy, not even those she has always counted on and thought she always could? And so the battle for her mind begins, and even she is not sure who will win. I found Insurgent to be quite a good book. There were times when I was just a tad bored, especially in the first three quarters of the novel where not a great deal happens. It definitely picked up at the end and I reached for book number three pretty danged quickly let me tell you! Rate: 8/10 Pages: 525 Format: Paperback Acquired from: Big W |
Allegiant
Book 3.
Okay hmm. What to say... Well like most dystopian reads, Tris has discovered that her entire world is pretty much a lie and her and the mottly crew seek what is truly outside the wall. I kind of felt as though Roth wrote book one and two with no idea how she would finish the series and then at the last minute came up with the temporary fixture that was Allegiant. I mean don't get me wrong, I quite liked the book, I just felt it was out of place and that it was a bit like a draft copy. I did enjoy Tobias and Tris' relationship in this book a lot more. I found their constant bickering a tad realistic in a teen romance so that was all good. The big twist at the end wasn't so big as I had already been spoiled. So that was, as always, disappointing. Again though I felt like Roth kinda went 'yeah okay, whatever, lets do that'... Overall I enjoyed the series but do not think it deserves all the hype it gets or the flack. Rate: 8/10 Pages: 526 Format: Paperback Acquired from: Big W |