Series Review - Divergent

The bookworms archenemy ; the popular books you HAVE to read, that you know are SO over hyped and media inflated (especially when there are movies involved), that you want to read but don't at the same time. Then you read the darn thing and its only OK. It's the OK that I really have a problem with, I am very rarely in the "grey area" with novels, I am a love it or hate it kind of person. All of the YA trilogies lately have been falling in the grey area and its driving me crazy.

Divergent Trilogy

Veronica Roth

Dystopian/ YA
Easy Read

Divergent
5 stars

Introducing our setting, five factions based on the five evils that cause war. Abegnation that believe it is selfishness, Erudite that believe it is ignorance, Dauntless that believe it is cowardice, ect. Amity and Candor are the other two factions. Four factions live together in a  city, Amity the fifth lives just outside the fence. The factions do not interact with each other on base levels, they do not work together, go to school together, or get married outside of their own faction. When the teens of the city turn 16 they take an aptitude test and then there is a choosing ceremony, each person is born into a faction, the choosing ceremony is the only time when a person can decide to change factions. Hence the name during the choosing ceremony each person will choose what Faction they want to devote their lives to *the Factionless also live within the city, they are essentially the homeless. To be Factionless is considered a fate worse than death.
Tris is our main character, she was born Abegnation but her aptitude test is inconclusive which makes her Divergent (she could join Dauntless, Erudite or Abegnation equally). Divergence is dangerous, although the majority people don't know of its existence and those who do don't know why it is dangerous. Tris becomes Dauntless where she meets Four who has secrets of his own... and suddenly the world as they know it begins to unravel at the seams.

I don't have much to say about this book, its a good read, its not original, there are movies. Its a dystopian YA.

BEWARE SPOILERS!!!

Insurgent
6.5 stars

The Factions are at war with each other. The Erudite are protecting a terrible secret, one that is worth killing for, that is worth a Genocide of the Abegnation. The Dauntless have been manipulated into helping through simulation serum and corruption at the higher levels. The Divergent are unaffected by the serum and thus cannot be brainwashed. The Dauntless split in two groups; the rebel traitors and Tris's group, Canor and Amity must choose sides, the Factionless rise up against their oppressors - there is more of them than the factions could have ever guessed and they are united under Evelyn (who just happened to be Four's mother).

I am breezing through these books and as I get into them they are getting easier and easier to read. Slowly I am getting more attached to the characters and now that I have the societal system more or less figured out the story is clearer and flows smoother (it wasn't exactly disjointed in the first novel but it was far from seamless). I had few moments where I connected really well with the novel which was lacking in the first book.
I am apprehensive about the third novel because I have heard quite a few negative reviews.

Allegiant