Divergent Trilogy by Veronica Roth

As someone who primarily reads poetry and literary fiction, I have decided that if one must sacrifice trust in their readers, there should be a big pay off, and in these books the payoff is a strong, direct conversation about courage, selflessness, grief, regret, and human experience as a whole. The repetitive images of judging bodies and appearance, water, tears, the grasping and wedging of hands lends these book to interpretation beyond the surface reading of the events which is not commonly said about teen fiction. The realistic ending that has hope shows that Roth did not take the task of writing a dystopic trilogy lightly, which created a good genre specific reading experience.