EricaO

This is the story of two learning-disabled teenagers who continue to disregard all the lessons they should have learned by this point - it's BOOK THREE, folks - and, instead, continue to make the same mistakes they have made over and over for the two previous books. I mean, good lord, the secrets, the taking separate sides, the second-guessing of self and others, the sudden flares of misunderstanding! It's ALL STILL THERE! So if that's what you liked in books one and two, you will love this book.

Also: BONUS! This book is about racism! Hooray! Tris becomes a preacher, telling everyone that racism is just bullcrap that was fed to people who chose to believe what they were hearing. While that is true, I did not expect things to take that turn. All the kickassery that I'd liked in the first book was turned into TrisIsGandhi. There was some kicking of assings, but...now it's there to appease readers like me who are reading to see Tris be all tough. Thanks for throwing me that bone, but I see what this is: a textbook for children, one that is teaching proper critical thinking through character dialog. And where did Tris even get these sudden strong opinions on GD and GP? Where? And why did my darling, dear, dreadful 4bias just take on these GD/GP beliefs upon hearing them? Why? WHY? Where are their thinking abilities? GAH! You'd think that BY NOW, these kids would be a little more skeptical of information not gleaned first-hand. But these kids are morons and cannot learn anything to save their lives.
And they pull on each other all the time. I'd punch a person who was always pinching my clothing to use it as a leash or grabbing me and pulling me in for kissing even though kissing was not the thing to be doing at the time. OMG, I hate these kids. HATE.

Also, I think I got a lecture on marriage. I'm not sure why I needed to be lectured on marriage, but I think I was and that made me go all, "Whaaaa?"

Sooo...I'm glad it's done. I'm VERY interested to see how this plays out in the movie(s) because if the ending stays true to the book, it's going to piss the I-didn't-read-it people off. They'll go all Game of Thrones nutcase and those of us who read the books will be all smug and stuff. But there's a good chance they'll change the ending because heaven forbid someone dies of self-sacrifice (puke)in a Hollywood production...though the self-sacrifice would be the only way someone could die in a Hollywood production because women need to be re-taught sacrifice. There is never any other way. Women have to put all others above themselves in order to create unity, harmony, and a beautiful world of reset memories.