Plot and Setting: Why Bigger is Not Always Better (A Continuation of My Thoughts on the Divergent Series)

(Warning: Spoilers for the Divergent series and the Hunger Games  series.) As I mentioned in my quick review of the Divergent series, the first problems with the story began to appear in the second book, Insurgent, where it felt like the author decided that the story needed to be ‘bigger’, and went about expanding it the wrong way, whichContinue reading “Plot and Setting: Why Bigger is Not Always Better (A Continuation of My Thoughts on the Divergent Series)”

A Quick Review of the Divergent Series (And the Beginning of a Discussion)

Aaand I’m back! It’s been far too long since I last posted here, but unfortunately graduate school took more of my time than expected.  Now that I know this, I hope to be able to better organize myself so that there aren’t any huge gaps between posts again. Ideally I’d get something up at leastContinue reading “A Quick Review of the Divergent Series (And the Beginning of a Discussion)”