Divergent Trilogy Review

My first ever book review in 21 years of my life. Here it goes:

There are ample of things and situations that I can relate to Divergent's values and beliefs. There's forgiveness after betrayal, love after hatred, trust after doubt; basically it's a whole package of life stories and values.

But the one thing that impacted me the most was the ending of the story. (Spoiler alert!) I've spent many nights reading all the books, skipping meals and sleeps, and it boils down to......Tris being killed. YES. She died in the end. I was devastated and confused and angry. Why must she die? Tobias and Tris deserve the "happily ever after" ending just like Hunger Games. Actually, they deserve it more, I believe.

After crying for a whole 5 minutes while struggling to finish the remaining pages of the book from Tobias's story (in which I cried even harder). I couldn't bare it. I went on to the internet and search "why must tris die?". Lo and behold, I found an interview with Veronica Roth, the author of Divergent trilogy, explaining the meaning of the ending. (read it here)

This is the turning point of everything I have understood about dying. Veronica said that Tris had to die because she finally learns what it actually means to sacrifice herself. She didn't die in the water tank, she didn't die while she hands herself over to Erudite HQ and after all that has happened, the death of her parents and Will, betrayal from Caleb; she no longer wants to die because of the pain and guilt she has felt. But she now knows what does true sacrifice means, it's sacrificing your own life to save a whole population from being killed (in this context it means erasing everyone's memory. Read the book and you'll know what I'm talking about).

I knew that something was gonna go south when Tris tells Christina that she will always be there for her. And when Tris tells Tobias that they will have a new life together once the mission is completed.

Little did I know, she was already gone.

Many time we do things because we feel that if we don't do it, the regret that comes after it will eat us up and there will be a hole in us). What I'm trying to say is that death is not a simple decision. And life is not to be taken for granted.

The last words that Tris spoke to Tobias through Caleb was "If I don't make it, tell Tobias I didn't want to leave him".

I mourned for days. I would wake up and think about the meaning of death. It haunted me so badly I couldn't read a new book so soon. It's like I needed to recover from a bad break up. A week later, I know that I need to stop thinking about it and start to live my life again but with a new vision.

My favorite line from this trilogy series : "Be brave." 

Jean x