The Running Bibliophile

When my mom raved about the first book in the Dorothy Must Die series by Danielle Paige, appropriately titled Dorothy Must Die , I was definitely intrigued and added it to my radar. At the time, though, my to be read pile was already out of control, so the book kept getting pushed aside. A few months later, I received one of BookBub’s emails featuring discounted ebooks, and Dorothy Must Die (Dorothy Must Die Series, #1) by Danielle Paige happened to be included. I decided to grab it while it was on sale, and when I finally sat down to read it, I was surprised to find that I wasn’t particularly enthralled with it at all ... at least not at first. Going into Dorothy Must Die , I didn’t have many expectations beyond knowing it was a dark retelling of The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. I’ll start by saying that I’m not easily offended by foul language, but since this series is marketed toward teens, I was caught off guard by how much cursing there was. Yes, I know teenagers swe...

Allegiant (Divergent, #3) by Veronica Roth is the final book in the Divergent trilogy and takes the story far beyond the familiar faction system. After video footage reveals that there is life outside the city limits, the fragile social structure collapses as the factions begin to disintegrate. Tris, Tobias, and their friends set out on a dangerous mission to discover what exists beyond their city, hoping to uncover the truth about the world they’ve always known. Their journey leads them to a mysterious government agency, where they learn that their entire lives have been shaped by experiments conducted on the population of Chicago, and nothing is quite what it seemed. Picking up almost immediately where Insurgent left off, Allegiant felt like a seamless continuation of the series. I was honestly relieved that all three books were already published when I started reading the Divergent series , because I didn’t have to wait long to find out how everything would end. Unfortu...