I have a horrible job. It requires me to stay and mutate in office for about 12 hours everyday, come back home, and fall dead on the bed.
Next morning: Repeat procedure. Over.
There's also the travelling bit which can last from anything between 30 minutes to infinity.
To kill time, I started reading this 'Trending' series on my ebook app -Divergent.
It's a trilogy (But of course a trilogy, because a single, powerful novel is too mainstream) namely-Divergent, Insurgent and Allegiant.
The series, set up in a dystopian America (surprise, surprise) is about a city divided into 5 factions- Amity (peace), Candor(Honesty), Erudite(Intelligence), Abnegation (selflessness) and Dauntless(bravery). Everyone is sorted into one of these factions based on these dominant personalities and the rest are factionless, left to their own means, uncared by the government.
The lead characters are two teenage protagonists-Tris and Tobias who fight the broken system to prevent their lives and world from breaking apart.
*Yawns*
Ok. So. Where was I?
Yes. Dystopian era, lots of governmenty stuff to fight, teenagers all around.
The first book, Divergent, sounds like Veronica Roth is a huge Hunger Games and Harry Potter fan girl , who never got over those series so she decided to write one of her own. All 3 books borrow elements from both the aforementioned series quite freely to aid a silly plot.
I won't go much into details about all the 3 books here (because it's post lunch and I am sleepy).
Basically this happens:
First Book: Tris learns how to fight like a badass (Tobias teaches her) and learns she's a divergent who can resist all sorts of psychologically manipulative serums (My god there are loads of those except a serum to combat boredom). They discover that one evil-genius Erudite leader is killing off divergents to protect a huge 'Secret'.
Second book is all about rebel and more rebel and yadda yadda yadda some more rebel along with a mind numbingly boring teenage angsty louuve story which essentially involves Tris and Tobias staring intently at each other's collarbones- because PG-13. The book ends with the revelation of The Big Secret.
The 3rd book starts off where the 2nd one left off with everyone trying to digest the the revelation. After that the book has no idea what to do with itself so it just panders around, randomly bringing in the first under-researched conflict it can lay its hands in(here, Gene Silencing) and follows it up with-wait for it- more rebellion.
At this point you're tired, the characters are tired and dying left right and centre. The only bright spot is the ending which seems more logical than rest of the series put together.
Overall the series is for the novice reader, who's just getting used to committing to a series, to feeling for the characters. The more seasoned readers who also happen to be fantasy/dystopian series enthusiasts (like me) would find it lame and full of more plot holes than Mumbai roads.
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