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3.3 AVERAGE
3.3 AVERAGE
The ending was perfect and yes that was me reading it while walking home and sobbing the entire time.
I'm not sure if I liked the change in how the author told this part of the story. It was interesting to read what was going on through the eyes of Tris and Tobias, but it was such a change from the first two books it caught me off guard.
Not as good as I wanted it to be. I sort of think I wanted more details on the why behind the whole thing, and I kept thinking the ending would change before the end or during the epilogue...but I really still loved the first two in the trilogy!
I liked this one however its ending was a bit sad. Four and several of the main characters are able to escape the Prior as it seems to be collapsing. They go the the town past the limits. There they are welcomed and learn many new things about the Prior and those past the limits.
The best series I ever read. I'm still sobbing from the ending. I won't post spoilers but grab tissues.
adventurous
emotional
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
It was five stars till chapter 50...like honestly why in the world would you kill the main character?? Tris and Tobias were supposed to end up together but no, veronica roth had to kill tris...ughhhh!!
adventurous
slow-paced
I hated that she dies. To me it served no purpose. Four didn't become a better person because of her sacrifice and Caleb was no longer talked about after she died so whats the point?
2.5/5 stars
I think that a 50% rating on this book is generous considering the many sins it has committed, but I still enjoyed reading this book for very personal reasons.
The first one is very simple and that is this- Christina, though given a very minor role, has been my favorite character throughout the series and came out of it alive and (as far as I can tell) happy. Secondly, one of the ONLY plot points I actually cared to see addressed in this final book was to have Tris and Caleb mend their relationship. I've always had a soft spot for Caleb despite some of his very questionable choices, and I thought Tris has been very hypocritical in her incrimination of him (for example thinking that she should have known he was a selfish liar ever since he left their family for the Erudite... uh, Tris.... YOU LITERALLY DID THE SAME THING). And while it's hard to say that their relationship is exactly reconciled in the end (because of.. circumstances), I really, really loved watching their interactions in this book grow from cold and loathing to some very tender moments. The last reason I enjoyed reading Allegiant is because I waited so long to do it that despite not hearing or seeing the actual spoilers, I knew there was a "shocking ending" that I was headed towards. And, just because everyone couldn't shut up about it, I could only assume that the "risk" Veronica Roth took was So even though I had to make it through about 450 pages of relative pointlessness to get there, I got to have the suspense that whole time of knowing something was coming, and then the eventual satisfaction of having guessed correctly- though I will admit to having come up with additional theories as I was reading. There was also very obvious foreshadowing to that "twist" in the beginning of the book.
And now, onto the flaws. First of all it did nothing for this book to have the two points of view. As many other people have complained about, there was little-to-no difference in voice between Tris and Tobias which... doesn't make any sense considering how different of characters they are. I often had to flip back to the beginning of the chapter to double check who I was reading, or I would be surprised because they would reference the other character and remind me that it wasn't them talking. So confusing.
Worse than that, everything about the plot of this book felt pointless and forced for drama.
Overall it seemed as through Veronica Roth started by writing a book based on a cool dystopian premise, but then when she realized she had to keep going she didn't know what she wanted to do with the story and started throwing new ideas left and right (for example, the big cliffhanger at the end of Insurgent proving to be completely irrelevant). While I was fairly pleased with the endings for most of the individual characters, the "big picture" ending of the future of their society seems inconcrete and implausibly functional. If you want a more detailed explanation of everything wrong with this book (one that is way more scientifically sound than any arguments I could form), I highly suggest this review (x) but of course with warning that it's completely full of spoilers.
So in the end, I didn't hate reading this book and it did give me some of what I was looking for in the conclusion of the series, but it is without a doubt the book I liked least in the series.
I think that a 50% rating on this book is generous considering the many sins it has committed, but I still enjoyed reading this book for very personal reasons.
The first one is very simple and that is this- Christina, though given a very minor role, has been my favorite character throughout the series and came out of it alive and (as far as I can tell) happy.
Spoiler
Though losing Uriah makes it bittersweet.Spoiler
to kill off Tris.And now, onto the flaws. First of all it did nothing for this book to have the two points of view. As many other people have complained about, there was little-to-no difference in voice between Tris and Tobias which... doesn't make any sense considering how different of characters they are. I often had to flip back to the beginning of the chapter to double check who I was reading, or I would be surprised because they would reference the other character and remind me that it wasn't them talking. So confusing.
Worse than that, everything about the plot of this book felt pointless and forced for drama.
Spoiler
The few Allegiant who make it out of Chicago come to find... not much in the outside world, and are told that their city is part of an experiment? It felt like all the interesting discourse about factions and their ideals and ways of living were thrown out the window because none of it even mattered. And then we are even the big reveal that Divergent people are just... NORMAL?? That probably pissed me off more than anything. We spent two books trying to understand divergence, and then we get told that it's literally nothing except non-tampered-with genes. Wow. And I don't believe we ever even got an explanation of why Tris was so immune to all the serums... like the girl made it through DEATH SERUM basically unscathed, let alone all the other ones she resisted, and yet we have no clue why. Sheer force of will? That's.. not how poison works. But really, the first two books felt like an entirely different plot from this one. I didn't care about the forced analogy of the GP and GD, it had nothing to do with the series as a whole, and honestly I stayed around just so I could see where the characters ended up and to get this book finally off of my TBR.Overall it seemed as through Veronica Roth started by writing a book based on a cool dystopian premise, but then when she realized she had to keep going she didn't know what she wanted to do with the story and started throwing new ideas left and right (for example, the big cliffhanger at the end of Insurgent proving to be completely irrelevant). While I was fairly pleased with the endings for most of the individual characters, the "big picture" ending of the future of their society seems inconcrete and implausibly functional. If you want a more detailed explanation of everything wrong with this book (one that is way more scientifically sound than any arguments I could form), I highly suggest this review (x) but of course with warning that it's completely full of spoilers.
So in the end, I didn't hate reading this book and it did give me some of what I was looking for in the conclusion of the series, but it is without a doubt the book I liked least in the series.