The Divergent Trilogy

Yes it took me until 2015 to read the Divergent Trilogy Veronica Roth. After three sleepless nights I have read each one and am very confused. Here is where I say **Spoiler Alert**. Of course I won't say certain facts from the books. But I am very confused by how Roth finished the series. I know from reading other series that the deaths of certain characters are profound and meaningful and sadly necessary for the outcome of the book. The person Roth decides to kill in the end of the series doesn't make sense to me. If someone could explain it that would be awesome! I understand that losing someone close changes a person either to the better or the worse. But things are wrapping up in the end for the better. I think it was a needless death. But on to other matters.

These books are well written and I think are worth reading. A reason that I don't read an abundance of books anymore is because I get lost in them. It isn't good to read non-stop and refuse to sleep until you finish the story. Even harder if it is a series. Divergent reminds me about all the wonderful things in my life that are still available for me. One of them being decision making/freewill. Also having a system that is dysfunctional yet still trying to make things better. There are aspects of the society that I see in real life. Aspects that can get worse and take over our humanity. But we are 'still fighting the good fight' if I think hard about it. Humanity is so destructive to each other. I wonder what my factions would look like if I were to think about it hard enough. What parts of being human would I emphasize. The book is correct in saying that being strong in one area makes a person weak in another. Other than the final act of Tris (the main protagonist) I enjoy the books. I understand the symbolism/meaning that Roth wanted to get across with Tris' final act; but I still think she could have got her meaning across a different way. 

Strong female heroes as well as male heroes. Resistance from the oppressed. Teenagers saving society. I can see why this series swept through the young population. I am not sorry for reading these books. I just have to figure out how to process them. All books that dwell on the collapse of society as I know it and how humans are afterwards are strange for me to stomach. If someone isn't disturbed by reading books from this genre then I would wonder and worry about them.