Book Stuff

I must be going through the stages of depression (or I've just finished the process). I just finished the book Allegiant by Veronica Roth and my feels are just all over the place. I was literally sobbing at the end.

               

It was that bad. The ending did that to me.

 

Let's talk about it. Everyone is talking about how they hated the ending. I can understand how they came to that. I really do. Personally, even though my emotions are raw and hurting, I don't think that the ending was truly horrific and unforgivable as everyone says it is. She did what she had to do.

All that aside, I was sifting through many many reviews and criticisms of the book, and I started wondering: Do people just find stuff to not like about books? Some of the criticisms were something akin to: "Some of the scenes were boring" or "It didn't make sense why that happened" or "That wouldn't ever happen in real life, it's just unrealistic."

I want to tell those people to shut their faces! Veronica Roth wrote the book how she thought it should be written! So what if it was boring sometimes? Real life isn't always interesting! Maybe she did that on PURPOSE! Did anyone ever think of THAT? Jeez! People get on my ever loving nerves. Then they were complaining that the background characters weren't three dimensional. Does this make sense to anyone else?! HELLO! Background characters are not meant to be three dimensional. That is why they are called background characters!

*takes a deep breath in... then out* I'm calm.

On a different, not as angry, note: I don't have the first book to the Vampire Academy series by Richelle Mead. I have all of the other books in the series but not the first one. This isn't the first time I've noticed it. I was on break a while back and thought to myself, 'Hmm, I'd like to re-read a series. OH! I should re-read the Vampire Academy series. I enjoyed that one immensely.' So I ventured over to my books shelf, thumbed along my books and was shocked to be reminded that I do not own it. How am I supposed to re-read a series without the first book? I'm not, that's how.

I realize that I may as well still be ranting. I don't think I intended it to be a rant post, it just kind of ended up that way. I must still be in the anger stage of grief after reading Allegiant.

On that note, goodnight.