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allaboutfrodo 's review for:
Allegiant
by Veronica Roth
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.