Tris is a strong, well-written character, and she is the trilogy’s redeeming quality. Is it memories? Choices? Loyalties? DNA? Roth’s use of genetics to explain the evolution of the factions don’t really work, and the bad science distracts from these interesting questions.ĭespite these flaws, the Divergent series is worth a read. The people in her society have been treated as little more than living hard drives that can be erased or re-programmed as required, and this raises questions about what creates a person’s identity. Tris learns her mother’s history, and the surprising story behind her society’s formation. The plot of the third book, Allegiant, relies on secrets kept and secrets revealed, rather than on action. With little action to entertain, some passages plod along pretty slowly. Whereas the first book is fast-paced and exciting, Insurgent slows way down. Unfortunately, that secret is hardly mentioned for the majority of the book. The factions are openly at war, and an enormous secret about the origin of their society has just been revealed. Insurgent, the second book in the trilogy, picks up exactly where Divergent left off. Although I enjoyed reading the second and third books, they don’t quite live up to the promise of the first. I’ve already reviewed the first book, Divergent, which I liked so much that I gobbled up the next two books in the series as soon as I could. With the Divergent movie release, the trilogy by Veronica Roth is getting lots of attention and, hopefully, lots of new readers.

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