I seriously feel like a Divergent for not liking this book more (pun intended). Everyone raves about it, and many have deemed it the best book of 2012, if not one of their favorite books of all time. The writing just didn't click with me sometimes. Maybe it's because it was like many other dystopic novels I have read.
The story was interesting, but the basis of the whole society honestly didn't make sense to me. Another issue was the length of the book. At times it honestly felt like it was dragging on and on. We don't even get to the good part till more than 2/3s of the book is over. I liked the relationship between the main leads, but even their relationship wasn't anything new. He kept pushing her to make her better, and she was (like every other YA heroine), completely oblivious and thought he hated her (I can't hate on this too much though because there are seriously only three kinds of love stories).
I do wonder what's up with Marcus and Tobias because Marcus is either completely oblivious as to to what he did to Tobias or Tobias hasn't told us the whole story (probably the latter). My favorite part was actually the mother-daughter relationship, and this is something I rarely say because most parents in YA books are absent/stupid. I wish there was even more focus on it. Finally, there are some pretty disturbing themes in this book [suicide, her parents die, Tris is sexually molested, Four is physically abused]. Not for the faint of heart, that's for sure. I might read the next book, but I am not rushing toward it.
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