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3.3 AVERAGE
3.3 AVERAGE
This was my least favorite book out of the three but it is still a good book. Getting to be inside Four and Tris’s heads made the book more interesting especially since they were fighting most of the book.
Allegiant is the third book in the Divergent Series. The author did agreat job of finishing up the series. The Divergent movie is due to come out in March 2014 and I can't wait to see it.
adventurous
emotional
inspiring
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Ok, so there was some kind of reason for the moronic faction system, even if it's not exactly logical, but at least there is one. The writing went downhill in this one though, the pacing is a bit weird, we're thrown from factionless vs factions to genetically pure people vs genetically damaged people to wait-who-the-frak-decides-that-anyway? vs we-do-damnit-coz-we're-ubermensch! and somewhere along the way I just stopped caring about the plot. Which is unfortunate, because this book alternates between Tris and Tobias, and it becomes painfully obvious that they sound exactly the same, so it's not like it was a fantastical character study.
Also, characters were dropping like flies throughout this series, but we cannot have sexy times! There is one decidedly glossed over scene in this one, but really, hormone charged teenagers never sneak off for a bit of nookie? :P It's like Hollywood morals, you can maim and kill however many people you like, but be forever damned if you have sex. *sigh*
I know a lot of people hated the last of the Hunger Games books, but that ending felt a lot more realistic and true to the series than this did.
Also, characters were dropping like flies throughout this series, but we cannot have sexy times! There is one decidedly glossed over scene in this one, but really, hormone charged teenagers never sneak off for a bit of nookie? :P It's like Hollywood morals, you can maim and kill however many people you like, but be forever damned if you have sex. *sigh*
I know a lot of people hated the last of the Hunger Games books, but that ending felt a lot more realistic and true to the series than this did.
dark
mysterious
sad
fast-paced
My biggest issue is the jump in the end to Everything Working Out. There is a 2 year jump and we don't really know what happened. I guess it depend on who the story is really about. If its about Tris then it makes sense. If its about the liberation of Chicago then it doesn't. Other than that was a great ending to the trilogy.
I liked Insurgent better than Divergent, but Allegiant really didn’t do much for me. It’s fine as something to read after you’ve reread the Hunger Games, again, but it did not inspire any depth of feeling. The characters are not well drawn, and I really did not care whether they lived or died, whether the city went back to factions or stayed factionless, etc. I found most of the romance between Tris and Tobias trite and, frankly, boring.
I was glad to finally get some more background on how the society in this series came into being, and the author did make a risky plot choice I admire. (However, it reminded me strongly of why I prefer books with a narrator, rather than books told in the first person.)
Epilogues seem to be a thing these days, and this book would have been stronger without one. The best part about this series for me has been the Chicago area setting.
So, not terrible, I did not have a hard time finishing it, but neither was I captured by the plot, setting, and characters to the point where I didn’t want it to end. It’s not a series I will find myself revisiting in my head.
I was glad to finally get some more background on how the society in this series came into being, and the author did make a risky plot choice I admire. (However, it reminded me strongly of why I prefer books with a narrator, rather than books told in the first person.)
Epilogues seem to be a thing these days, and this book would have been stronger without one. The best part about this series for me has been the Chicago area setting.
So, not terrible, I did not have a hard time finishing it, but neither was I captured by the plot, setting, and characters to the point where I didn’t want it to end. It’s not a series I will find myself revisiting in my head.