I’ve never read a more convoluted story without a rewarding finale than divergent series

What the hell. The only rewarding aspect was Tris and Four (and Peter) and then Allegiant happened. I even understand the choices Roth made about making decisions as a grown up, sacrificing for love, etc. But wouldn’t the better thing had been for her to grow up and be an adult; she was so mindnumbingly controlled by society’s expectations, to defy them and help others defy the government would’ve made the series worth more as a reader. Yes she sacrificed herself but that’s not the same as being there to help society rebuild. The memory innoculation is going to wipe out people’s memories anyways, so how is she going to be remembered other than Four.

If Roth really wanted to prove herself as a writer, it would’ve been even better if Peter didn’t take the memory serum. He committed so many horrible acts he was so confused over who he truly was; it would’ve been better that in the name of Tris’ memory he didn’t erase what he had done and tried to be a better person….

The ending to the series is so unsatisfying; how could these three books that are really mediocre become a phenomenon and there’s not even a cartharsis to all the madness. All of the personalities ran together even though they were structured to represent very different virtues. The writing had so much cliche dialogue and descriptions. A society blames people with bad genes to structure cities to create gene-specific types only to have the Divergent released upon society “at the right time”. The plot was so convoluted racing around these different serums that didn’t even matter in the end.
I mean, I wasn’t even a big fan of the books. I only read them because I wanted to see what they were about - and then Shailene Woodley is an amazing human being, her chemistry with Theo is so on point with the characters, and the adaptation ended up being good….And, now what is any of this series worth?