I'll read pretty much anything that seems like it might be turned into a movie. I think I bougth Divergent becasue it was only $4.99 for my Kindle and I thought, Hey, What the heck. It's cheap. I'll try it. The story is a good idea, but the writing is not fabulous. It's another post apocolyptic world teenager story. I know you've read one before. This started out good. I had no problem reading Divergent. It's once you get to Insurgent that things get funky. There are just too many characters and too many people fighting against too many people who seem to be constantly switching sides, dying and getting shot, only to not in fact be dead or to be saved at the last minute. I just didn't buy it in the second book. It's action packed and kids will probably love it, but it was lacking a lot of things for me to really get on the bandwagon. Scenes changed instantaneously and I was left lost many times. It just got too muddled and too repetitive and I was losing interest by the end.
As with many trilogies, after I read the second one I rarely want to read the third. I had this problem with Fifty Shades and the Hunger Games. The first was great enough to hook me and the second was horrible enough to disappoint me. Movies are often the same way. So, I will probably not be reading Allegiant when it comes out in October.
These books are my treadmill read. They are usually easy to read and follow along, and don't take too much concentration. The treadmill is where I read all of my YA books. For an easy beach read to keep up with what the kids are reading I would recommend Divergent, but then let it go. Move on to another book and save yourself the time. Nothing interesting happends in Insurgent, but reading Divergent will give you just enough background information to recommend the series to possible readers and will allow you to go see the movie version and still be able to claim that, "The book was so much better."
