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