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Unfortunately this book is not as as good as divergent. The 'main' story goes on the back burner for most of the book and Tris spends far too much time analysing her relationship with four and bickering with him. When she's not bickering with Four, she's going on about killing her friend; William and refusing to touch a gun. This should all be great character development but it shouldn't overshadow the story and I think the reason it is so frustrating is because Veronica Roth cannot adequately explain Tris' thoughts and reasoning. Simply saying over and over again that Tris cannot pick up a gun leads us to be unsympathetic towards her turmoil. We need to feel her anguish but her anguish just appears to switch on and off like a light switch.
As to the ending, it's just flat, was that it? Is that the big secret? We've spent too much of our time getting bored my Tris and her 'anguish' so by the time she decides to hand her self in (what was the logic in that! Isn't she suppose to be Erudite?) we're so switched off that we don't realise that the excitement is ramping up. At the end characters are flipping from 'good' to 'bad', 'bad' to 'good' that everything becomes rather disorientating, instead of taking the time to develop all these characters, take us on a journey, feel betrayal, relief or shock we've left with a feeling of utter disbelief and I'm afraid that is a failure of the author.
As to the ending, it's just flat, was that it? Is that the big secret? We've spent too much of our time getting bored my Tris and her 'anguish' so by the time she decides to hand her self in (what was the logic in that! Isn't she suppose to be Erudite?) we're so switched off that we don't realise that the excitement is ramping up. At the end characters are flipping from 'good' to 'bad', 'bad' to 'good' that everything becomes rather disorientating, instead of taking the time to develop all these characters, take us on a journey, feel betrayal, relief or shock we've left with a feeling of utter disbelief and I'm afraid that is a failure of the author.