Allegiant by Veronica Roth Entry Three

After finishing the trilogy, there is no question that this series goes up there in the all time ranks of my favorite books.  It turned out that all the people whose unwanted characteristics were all gone were the ones who were divergent.  Those who are not divergent were considered "genetically damaged".  Eventually, Tris decides to let out a memory serum on the Bureau before the Bureau can let it out on everyone in Chicago.  The plan is to first release a death serum to kill everyone in the bureau who is divergent and then release a memory serum to cure all who are not divergent.  The plan goes into effect and Tris decides that it would be best to sacrifce herself, because if she inhales the death serum, she will die.  Somehow, she survies the death serum, and at this point I thought she would make it through the whole story, but unlike any fairytale in history, she is shot as she releases the memory serum.  R.I.P. Tris.  Towards the end of the book, Tris says "Maybe then we can find out if we do as well with the quiet moments as we have with the loud ones." (Roth 343).  This was a very different way to end the book.  As I said earlier, as soon as Tris survived the death serum, I immediately thought the fairytale ending was on, but very unexpectedly, Tris was shot and killed.  Then again, the whole trilogy is full of things that come completely out of the blue and are unexpected, so you just have to come to expect the unexpected from it.  This was a superb series that I highly recommend.  Do yourself a favor and at least see the movie.  Whichever you choose, enjoy!

- Sam

Allegiant by Veronica Roth Entry Two

The book begins with Tris in a prison within a prison.  She feels that she is finally ready to get outside of the fence-surrounded city.  She eventually tells a few lies to get out of jail and when she gets out she is approached by Allegient, a group that want to break out of the city.  Tobias as well as his sister Caleb join Tris in Allegiant.  They all escape by taking a train to a few buses on the edge of the city.  A few members are killed along the way by Dauntless patrol officers, but no one important to the storyline.  They get outside of the city and realize it is a lot like where they came from.  They later discover that the city they lived in used to be called "Chicago".  On the outside of Chicago, Tris is given an old photo of her mother and a guy, David.  They meet up and he explains how Chicago is a social experiment to correct damage caused by previous govenment experiments that had intentions to get rid of unwanted characteristics.  This was quite the thing to discover straight out of their old city.  At one point on the way out of Chicago, Tris claims "We don't know what's happened out there... We could be the last people left." (Roth 7).  This shows what the society in Chicago has done to members of the social experiment.  They have absolutely what is going on in the real world and will greatly struggle to break into it when they get there.  This, however, will just make the story more interesting because readers will be able to see how members of Chicago react.  Can't wait to finish it!
- Sam

Allegiant by Veronica Roth Entry One

Finally, I have made it to the final book of the Divergent trilogy.  The last book ended in a huge cliffhanger, where Tris is notified by Edith Prior that the whole "futuristic Chicago" city is an experimental attempt to save humainty led by the divergent.  This book looks like it will live up to the great hype it's getting for being a part of the Divergent trilogy.  There are so many ways Roth can go with this one.  I can't wait to get into the final third of the trilogy!
- Sam

Insurgent by Veronica Roth Entry Three

Wow, this book is really getting excited.  Last time I said that when this book's climax was going to hit, it would hit hard, and it surely did.  Jeanine discovers that Tris is divergent and, with some help from Tris's former freind, Peter, believe it or not, attempts to execute her.  Thanks to her new friend, Tobias, however, she was not.  Jeanine is eventually killed by Tori, who carries on the Dauntless and factionless war against Erudite.  Now, Evelyn reveals her big plans, which are to eliminate all factions.  Now, a women named Edith Prior (remember Tris's original name was Beatrice Prior) reveals that the whole idea of the city of "futuristic Chicago" is an experimental attempt to save humanity and people who are divergent will save everyone.  Tobias says "You die, I die too" (Roth 338) to Tris and by doing this it shows how far their relationship has come.  They now depend on each other to live in such a society that is later to be revealed to be an experiment.  What a cliffhanger!
- Sam

Insurgent by Veronica Roth Entry Two

The stroy does pick up right where Divergent left off.  It begins with Tris and her friends, fugitives at this point, escaping to the Amity compound.  There, Tris immediately cuts her hair short as one step to making it so people are unable to identify her.  Eventually, Erudite shows up with many Dauntless trators.  There, a fight breaks out and it forces Tris and her friends to run fugitive yet again.  They get on a midnight train to Geo, a safe and factionless place.  There, she is injected with a truth serum, which causes her to confess the many people she killed, which creates much tension between her and her friends, especially Christina, whose lover, Will, she killed.  She thinks to herself “People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.”  (Roth 234).  This shows just how deep tensions are getting in this book.  They are causing Tris to think deep into her mind anout the true meaning of everyday things.  There are getting to be many more signs of a climax in this book, and it looks to be yet another great one!
- Sam

Insurgent by Veronica Roth Entry One

This is the second book in the Divergent Trilogy.  They are all the same story continued in a new book.  The fist book in this series was very good.  It is a part of the dystopian society genre, which is always an interesting story.  I'm interested to see how this book will pick up from where the first one left off.  The first one left off in scenes of chaos and awe as the Erudite plan to take over the Abnegation government was put to a halt much to the thanks of the divergent Tris.  There are many ways Roth could go with this one.  Hopefully, she picked the most entertaining one.
- Sam

Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks Entry Three

This book ends in what I'm sure most people always assumed who knew Alice.  An overdosage of heroin.  No surprises.  Whether it was suicide or not, however is undetermined.  This just goes to show that everything teachers nowadays is necessary.  Had teachers of tht day in age been the same, Alice would most likely still be alive.  A vital quote to the overall theme of the book is Alice telling her diary that "But I think when a person gets older she should be able to discuss her problems and thoughts with other people, instead of just with another part of herself as you have been to me."  This shows how badly her past drug experiences had made her inside.  The only way she could truly communicate her feelings was through a diary thtat only she, herself was able to view.  As I already stated, this does not surprise me , as well as most other readers, I'm sure.  This book just shows how help is always necessary, and as much of it that is needed should be gotten.
- Sam