Divergent Trilogy by Veronica Roth, after seeing the Divergent movie for the first time, I fell in love and found out that were books so of course I had to check them out and we all know books are always if not most of the time better than the movies.
I started the first book last weekend - I only read on weekends due to college and my habit to not putting a book down until it is finished or at least nearly finished, and of course this a problem because I will stay up as long as is it takes!
Anyways back the books. I adored reading them, and it seems it Veronica has made a huge impact on me with her unforgettable books and I just to share my opinion, thoughts, kind of like a review, but I will be talking about the movie too.
Warning if you haven't read the books there may be some spoilers!
- Also I know there is another book of short stories about Four which I have ordered from Amazon and will be reading when it's delivered I will do a separate review for that!
Divergent
From the first word I was attached, I instantly started to fall in love with the characters the factions. Veronica transported me to a whole new world, giving me such an adventure just by reading her words.
Having seen the movie first I had already had an image planted in my head for all the characters, which I must say all the actors and actresses fitted perfectly well for the characters in the books, except Eric. I am kind of pleased by this though, generally because I love Eric's look and personality in the movie, I have an obsession with Eric. I am kind of glad the movie differed from the book mainly because of Eric, but only that. The movie added extra things, I like the way the movie changed the paintball guns, and some of the added dialogue especially between Eric, Four and Tris.
I love the book has more things than the movie, it sounds weird but I feel the books are sacred, once reading the divergent book it opened my eyes so much especially with more understanding to the film. When you watch the movie it is brilliant but after you read the book it is insanely even more amazing, it is kind of like you know more than those just watched the movie, like you know a whole secret that they don't.
The book was incredible, I feel like it brought me to life a little, I could feel everything Tris was going through. Despite my love for Eric I even started to slightly fall in love with Four, yeah they are fictional characters I know.
I have to say 100% the book is better than the movie with most aspects, a part from the movie there is more Eric scenes well I'm kind of bias when it comes to Eric.
The first book is the movie, except you go into much deeper concept and feelings and relationships and behaviour is magnified.
The book was incredible from beginning to end, once it finished I had to refrain myself from picking up the next book otherwise I would have become a zombie and no would have been done in college the next day
Insurgent
This book literally blown my mind, I am not even kidding. In this book alone I pretty much felt every emotion possible. This book was utter brilliance, the plot twists had me on edge, the first book was amazing but the second blew it out of the water! So many new characters were introduced, another whole new world revealed to us.
Four's story started to unfold and took us on a roller-coaster. I have to say that this book was really intense, I was practically gripping the book as I read the words. Sadly my love Eric was killed this book, it hurt but of course he deserved it! I look forward to how the movie will be, the book was brilliant and I hope the movie really does it justice.
I gasped a lot through this novel, like a lot. Also I even felt Tris's craziness as she slowly went off the rails. This book definitely makes you feel things the first book didn't. Plus the Tris and Tobias relationship, wow they went through a lot, I think at one point I cried from the almost heartbreak. I did cry a little with this book.
When I finished this book I was slightly traumatized, like my emotions were high and it was all I thought about.
Allegiant
The final book... This had the most impact on me. It shows you so many meaningful things, the more important things like love, sacrifice, family and strength. This book is the different from the rest, we finally leave the factions, to see there a much bigger world than just Dauntless, Amity, Candor, Erudite and Abnegation.
This book was full of twists. I loved the switch of point of views between Tobias and Tris, it was genius. It got us to see things from different perspective.
I felt angry at one point, I didn't like Nita at all, I felt she was trying to steal Four. The moments between Tris and Four literally had my heart in my mouth.
In my opinion this book was the best, it was so complex and brilliant.
I have to say the ending, well I sobbed I mean at 6:30AM I sobbed and I had to put the book down. I couldn't control myself, Veronica Roth turned my into an emotional wreckage. The final chapters were so raw and tough I felt like I had lost someone dear to me, I loved it though it was incredible.
This book I read last night, I didn't go to bed until 7:00AM, even when I woke up after 13:00PM I still felt the rawness, and until about 30 minutes ago I had to make myself come to terms with the fact that Tris was only a character a made up person, that it was all fictional. It end the way I wanted it to, I am glad kind of because it was such a unique ending, the epilogue did give me closure though.
The whole trilogy was amazing, kudos to Veronica Roth for creating such an amazing set of books, powerful and unforgettable to say at the least. I thoroughly enjoyed reading the books, I would highly recommend that everyone reads them. They were emotional, exciting, thrilling and had me addicted from beginning to end. Usually when you read a series of books they start good and maybe falter further into the series, but that isn't the case here. The brilliance, creativeness were continuous through out!
Be Brave!
Once I read the trilogy I found out that there was another book, about the character Four/Tobias. I bought it and well I just read it and here's my review.
Inside there is a four short stories, and a few snippets of Four's point of view of things that happened in the first novel. They were really interesting, amazing even. In this book we learn so much more about Four, his background and things that happen behind the scenes. I enjoyed the read, it was calm, relaxing.
It was a really clever idea that Veronica brought out this book, it helps put the pieces together. Plus she shows that in depth of her character, giving us the chance to see why Four acted the way he did in the first novel Divergent.
It was exhilarating reading this book, I wish I had read it straight after the first novel, although it did give me the closure I needed for the ending of Allegiant.
I liked seeing how the rivalry started between Eric and Four, we were able to see Four's past life and his initiation.
When you read the first book, you read and you don't question things, then you read this book and you realize that in the first book things weren't what they seemed, they were much more complicated than that.
If you haven't read it then I won't spoil it for you, but you need to read it! It makes sense, it unlocks part of the story and generally gives you a feeling of wholesomeness.
I recommend you read these books if you haven't already!!
