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Allegiant by Veronica Roth

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elija_20's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

I actually think this broke me. There’s literally nothing else to say. This whole trilogy has been amazing and I’ve never loved a series more and now that it’s over I don’t really know what to do with myself. That’s really dramatic but it’s true. Every character is so carefully thought out and the plot is so layered but written so well that I was never confused and spent every moment just in awe of the world Veronica Roth created. I would recommend this to anyone, but bring tissues!

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romantasybooklover's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Rating: 3.5/5⭐⭐⭐.5

***I swear that 99% of the time I don't put spoilers in my reviews but I couldn't resist for this book. All spoilers are within a spoiler warning.***

Honestly, I almost DNFed this book. After

one of my favorite characters, Uriah, died,

I slowly started not reading this book but then a day ago I decided to continue. It took me a minute to get back into this book but I did like it.

In the end I did like this book but felt it was a bit unnecessary.

Loved the epilogue.

Originally, I was going to give this book a lower rating but the last 70 pages saved it and made me think that this was a fairly good ending to the trilogy.

Tobias' reaction to Tris dying was truly heartbreaking. I cannot express how much I love Tobias. He was so sad after Tris died and I'm happy that they talked about his grief. I think my heart broke during those chapters.

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prog51's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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justagirlwithbooks's review against another edition

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2.75

“Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.”

Where do I even begin with this book? I did not enjoy it as much as the first two, and to explain why, I think I need to go into spoilers...

Tobias felt really out of character for this book. He's a GD, but he's also divergent, because he has divergent qualities. I don't understand why he wasn't more suspicious of the plan, or why he'd go through with a plan where he knows people will get hurt, including his friends. And Nita, I hated her. But at the same time I'm really happy for his progress that he's made.

The world-building is an absolute mess. It was a mess from the start. All the serums are seriously giving me Maze Runner vibes, and I didn't like the Maze Runner at all. If people could just leave the city, why didn't they do it before? The Dauntless are literally guarding the gates. And the Bureau makes no sense whatsoever. It's an experiment - see, Maze Runner vibes - yet when that experiment goes wrong, you don't do anything to fix it? They're all people- I really don't understand why the GPs and the GDs are treated so differently when you literally have people like Tobias who is a GD with GP qualities.

Also, Tris dying. I'm sorry, what was that? Killing off your main character is a bold move for any author - but it has to make sense. She survived the DEATH SERUM... only to be shot? It wasn't her time to go. Not at all. It didn't make any sense.

Anyways, that's the end of me reading the OG Dystopian Trilogies, and my ranking is:

The Hunger Games
Divergent
The Maze Runner

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alsoiread's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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misslexisaurus's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

I'm so glad I read the books after discovering the series through the films. I am so in love with these books. The characters are so complex with real struggles, Roth does an amazing job of avoiding "good vs bad" and really explores the idea of good people bad choices and the difficulties of knowing what the right thing even is in such hard situations.

I cried my eyes out for the last several chapters!

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5.0

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melsage1823's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I'm going to keep this review spoiler free but let's just say that I have so many mixed feelings due to my love for the first book and dislike for the second book. It made what I hated about the second book way more enjoyable.

First I'll quickly get my spoiler free dislikes out of the way. I think this book should have been longer as I only cried at the major character death at the end of the book because it had been earned and developed. The rest of the deaths were so random when we had barley anytime with those characters. It felt like Roth was trying to trim down the cast for the sake of it.

Secondly I really disliked the random lengths of the chapters. I always say this but in order to make your book accessible its important to have the book printed in a large print and that the chapters should be an even length. Some of the chapters especially at the end could have been squished into one chapter definitely.
I like consistency in story and chapter lengths in my book and this certainly didn't have that.

Finally I feel like the revelations in this book have been plucked out of thin air from the second book. I was shocked and the revelations but it felt really cheap to whip up this Bureau compound plot out of thin air.

Apart from that I found this book mostly an improvement from the mid second book in the trilogy. I was hoping that after the second book this third book would have me more enthusiastic and apart from the beginning it mostly kept me hooked.

I adore the pov switches between Tris and Tobias in this book as it helped bring forth a lot of impact to the story and made things less one sided. Looking back I think doing multiple Tris and Tobias povs for the second book would have made it better for me. It also helped develop Tobias and made him more than the typical love interest as we get to see his relationships and emotions more.

Now I actually loved Tris's controversial ending in this book as its such a contrast from the stereotypical we overthrew a government let's live in peace and celebrate.

In the words of Tony Stark even though this might get a bit spoilery not everyone gets a happy ending and that's ok.

The first and second book especially the second book had been building up to this ending for Tris and I felt like she definitely had earned it. Just my opinion but if you dislike it thats completely valid.

Finally the messaging was extremely heart warming. The fact that just because people tell you that you are broken doesn't mean you are. This is what I have had to learn in a world that hates me as a neurodivergent person. It's so important to share that difference is important and that Eugenics rhetoric is completely wrong.

Overall an improvement from the second book in the trilogy that will definitely leave you feeling emotional despite its flaws.

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readingwithkaitlyn's review against another edition

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sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

The writing is better in this one than in the previous too, you can see the growth, but this one is far less exciting than Insurgent and Divergent.

This one is the farthest off from the movies and I think the book is slightly better than movie where I’d disagree with the previous two. There is more character development, a variety of characters, and I think where the characters end up is better than the movie. However, the lead up to it was very boring. I think the author could have done more to make the Bureau grander and more descriptive so it felt exciting rather than just another location that had similar living conditions.

With the switching POVs, I know why it was done, but I felt like there wasn’t a distinct change between Tobias and Tris. I had to keep checking which POV I was in because I couldn’t remember or tell the difference. Their thoughts tend to be very similar, even when they have different opinions. They process emotions similarly, sort of bouncing between several different emotions and thoughts so it never feels distinct and cohesive. I don’t have an issue with a variety of thoughts but it didn’t help trying to know which POV I was reading.

Some major differences in this one to the movie were how immediate things became, like the development of the Allegiant with Cara and Johanna in charge, Uriah having a much bigger character arc, more characters in general like Amar and George, Tris’ mom’s journal and her journey and relationship with David, Tris being directly aware of what the Bureau had done and their involvement with Abnegation’s demise, Four being involved in a plan behind Tris’ back and them nearly breaking up, Tris going to the fringe, Peter wanting to reset, and just the entire ending being so different. Once again, I found Four to be less tolerable in this one than in the movies. Especially with telling Tris she was jealous of Nita because she’s pretty. I didn’t care for that.

I will say, that although I have harsh criticisms, I cried a lot. I don’t know what it is but despite me not liking these characters all that much I still end up caring about them. What I will also say is there are elements in here that are uncomfortable because of relating to real life, like Pure genes and such, and I know it is a critical take, but I imagine some communities will take a bit of an offense to it. Aside from that which I feel some uncertainty about, I think Veronica Roth was ahead of the times in a lot of her writing. Given the queer rep, although not great by today’s standards, and disability rep, and not being fatphobic or such in the stories. I feel like a lot of authors at that time had so many incredibly offensive things in their books because it was more “acceptable” to be in books, but this one is a bit easier to stomach than most. That is not to disregard some other issues in the book, but I think it did fairly well in terms of comparison.

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