Am I the only one who doesn't really like this series?

[hannah renee.]

Don't hate me, but I don't think this series was all that great. The first book was good, I will admit, but after that, it all went downhill. It will NEVER be a replacement of Hunger Games. Hunger Games was far better written, you could FEEL the emotions and the characters were anything but flat. Allegiant was crap, but I adored Mockingjay. The only character I liked in the Divergent series was Tobias; and I only liked him in the way that he was an interesting complex character, but I didn't love him.

People have put this as a fandom next to Harry Potter, the HG, Percy Jackson, etc and I do not agree! Those totally beat the Divergent series and always will.

[Matthew]

If you have to ask "Am I the only one who…" the answer is no. That being said, I found Divergent and Insurgent to be rather good, but not without flaws, and Allegiant to be… well, just look at what my rating says next to my name.

[Megan]

Please adore it on the Hunger Games page. Allegiant ended badly, I will give you that, and mostly it was crap. I think the writer could definitely use some time and growth but she has potential. Right now Veronica Roth is a terrible writer as far as I am concerned. I hope the movies are different from the books and keep getting more different because Allegiant was wretched.

[HannaIsAwkward]

i actually don't get why these books are so hyped. i mean i liked them they where okay except allegiant. but i just think they have to much hype.

[Christie]

I really enjoyed Divergent, but after that I agree that things started to go south. Insurgent was all right, but I thought Tris was a little too mopey and depressed and wanting to kill herself a lot, which got on my nerves since she was so strong in Divergent. I kind of sensed based on the strength of the themes in Insurgent what would happen to Tris at the end of the trilogy. The one thing that really bothered my about Allegiant though, more than the ending (which did make sense considering the themes), was the way the plot just kind of went somewhere no one expected. Having the whole thing be some sort of outside experiment to help humanity recover from a war just didn't fit, and it really felt like such a complete schism from the other two books. I didn't hate the series, although I do agree that there are many better ones.

[Taylor]

I enjoyed the Divergent trilogy, but the books went downhill from the moment Insurgent started. The Divergent trilogy doesn't really deserve the honor of being compared to the Hunger Games trilogy.

[Lauren]

I really loved the first book despite the poor plot structure and juvenile writing style. The second book was entertaining and fast-paced though a further step down as far as plot. After reading the third, well, I still like the first and second books as much as I did, but I would have to say that the series as a whole is just not very good. The poor writing in the first two books nosedives into "Did a 10-year-old write this?"-ness in the third, and the plot completely falls apart and more or less exposes the fact that the author clearly had no idea what she was talking about the entire time. There is no cohesiveness, no central storyline (except the main character's contrived arc) that carries through all three parts of this three-part journey. The author seems to come up with a new story canon in each book. The final revealed big picture makes no sense and confirms that the central premise was indeed as untenable and unthought out as it seemed at first glance. Other opportunities to draw interesting or clever story ideas are wasted with derivative or illogical plotting. Other people have opined that this series has many good ideas that suffer from poor execution, and I would have to agree. The initial concept was imaginative enough and there was potential for a great series, but the author's inexperience and admitted lack of forethought ruined the could have been. And as much as I did enjoy the first two books in the series, at no point even then did I believe Roth's work was on par with Rowling's or Collins's. I may not be a Potterhead or a Hunger Games freak, but I have read both series and Divergent is not nearly as good or well put together as those.

[Abigail]

you are not alone.

[Andi]

Divergent was a decent debut but it definitely went down from there. I hated Insurgent but put the poor writing down to a case of sophomore slump and hoped Allegiant would redeem the series.

Oh, how wrong I was.

Now I realize how horrible the whole series panned out and that the author didn't have as much planned when she started writing as I would have liked. Despite me hating the series, I guess it will still have a special place somewhere for me since I spent loads of time spazzing over it, analyzing the crap out of it, discussing with other fans, and ranting to anyone who would hear.

It was a pretty good run :)