So for as long as I can remember my stepmom and my dad took me and my brothers, and eventually my sister once she came along, to the library. We were all pretty avid readers, Stephane and Whitney probably the least, but I was definitely the one that devoured books. And it didn't stop as i got older, in fact I think it's gotten worse as I have gotten older, if that's even popular. I love books. I am very invested in books. I have a Kobo Aura HD e-reader, as well a pretty big bookcase full of books (its actually too full and some are in boxes). I like book series, trilogies or series the most. Although I hate, hate hate waiting for the next book in a series to come out. Its pure agony for me. Well the latest source of agony just came out, Allegiant. And when I say just came out, I mean it, it was released yesterday and when I got home from my nice, new shiny hardcopy was waiting for me on my front step. I knew it had been delivered because I had checked this afternoon on Chapters to see where it was (after seeing in the morning it had arrived in the city!). I tore it open the first chance I got. Since Cedric had vaccines this morning I had taken the day off. And I finished just before lunch. I have never been so heartbroken in my life for a book. The only time I remember crying this much was with the last Harry Potter, so that is saying a lot. I think I was as much invested in the Divergent series as I was Harry Potter. And this ending, I don't know what to think. I don't feel like I had a satisfied ending. I feel like there could have been a different story told and not kill off 2 of my favorite characters in the book and leaving the 3 characters who should have died alive, and 2 of them are happy in the epilogue. It just doesn't seem right to me. Tobais should have been happy too, but 2 years later you can see it still hurts for him. He is doing good with his life, but he is broken, forever. He will never recover from what happened to him. How the author can do that to characters that she loves it beyond me. I know we can't always have a happy ending, but this ending, killing Uriah was bad enough, but then killing Tris as well...it's kind of devastating as a reader, watching her and Tobias finally figure out how to function normally as a couple, to learn to be honest and to trust and just TALK about what they were thinking, and then the next day Tris is dead. And Caleb, Marcus and Evelyn are all alive. Even Peter lives! And he gets to take the cowards way out and erase his memory with the Abnegation serum. But she kills two of the best people in the books. Characters who everyone loved. Poor Uriah, whose life was full of death, first his father, then Maureen and Lynn.
The ending threw me off so much that I can't even tell if I liked the book or hated the book. The first 2/3 of the book are pretty good, the back story and seeing the reactions of Cara, Christina along with the rest of them, to the outside world. Tobias being manipulated by Nita and meeting Matthew, a character i wish had been in the whole series because he was that loveable. Even David, who reminded me a lot of Janine even though he was supposed to be a 'good guy'. Learning about Tris and Caleb's mother, and where she came from and how she knew about the outside world. It was all fascinating, but then I feel like it was ruined. I'm going to have to read it again, but I'm kind of scared reading it will solidify a hatred for a book, and I've never hated a book before. Disliked yes. Hated? Never.
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