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michalgregor 's review for:
Allegiant
by Veronica Roth
I was contemplating giving the book 3 stars. After reading through the first two books, I found the third one truly frustrating. It was extremely rushed, there was never a moment in which a huge conspiracy was not being uncovered, a cataclysmic event looming, or one of my favourite characters being killed.
In the first two books I felt like I could not stop reading. Here I had to take pauses at times – the tension was just too exhausting, the reading too tiring... I find that making all parts of a book filled with action and never-ending thrill really defeats the purpose in the end – there is too little to ground those moments in, to set them against, to make them feel special.
Also, I really do not buy into the idea of constantly rushing from one rebellion into another. The plot felt very thin, sketchy, even downright illogical and disappointing in places. It should have been fleshed out much more; the book could easily have been split into two or even three parts. As it stands, there is a certain lack of substance to it, which makes it feel too much like a lazy attempt of the author to finally get the story over with. Almost as if at some point she took all the main plot ideas she had and hastily hashed them into a barely coherent story.
Furthermore, I think there are patterns that it is unwise to repeat too often in a book. If all that we believe about its world is turned upside-down once, that is indeed a neat trick on the part of the author. However, if it keeps turning upside down every ten minutes or so, the joke is prone to becoming rather stale.
In any case, I was ready to give the book 3 stars. What made me change my mind and add the fourth star was, strangely enough, its ending. It was devastating and I hate the author for it with a passion. But it was also great in so many ways. In the first two books we were confronted with several very different kinds of nobility and bravery. The ending of the third one portrays yet another kind, which may be the greatest of all. The bravery to go on when everything around you falls apart and it seems like there is nothing you can hope, or live for any more.
I say that for this unlikely and most unwelcome feat, the book deserves an extra star, if any book does.
In the first two books I felt like I could not stop reading. Here I had to take pauses at times – the tension was just too exhausting, the reading too tiring... I find that making all parts of a book filled with action and never-ending thrill really defeats the purpose in the end – there is too little to ground those moments in, to set them against, to make them feel special.
Also, I really do not buy into the idea of constantly rushing from one rebellion into another. The plot felt very thin, sketchy, even downright illogical and disappointing in places. It should have been fleshed out much more; the book could easily have been split into two or even three parts. As it stands, there is a certain lack of substance to it, which makes it feel too much like a lazy attempt of the author to finally get the story over with. Almost as if at some point she took all the main plot ideas she had and hastily hashed them into a barely coherent story.
Furthermore, I think there are patterns that it is unwise to repeat too often in a book. If all that we believe about its world is turned upside-down once, that is indeed a neat trick on the part of the author. However, if it keeps turning upside down every ten minutes or so, the joke is prone to becoming rather stale.
In any case, I was ready to give the book 3 stars. What made me change my mind and add the fourth star was, strangely enough, its ending. It was devastating and I hate the author for it with a passion. But it was also great in so many ways. In the first two books we were confronted with several very different kinds of nobility and bravery. The ending of the third one portrays yet another kind, which may be the greatest of all. The bravery to go on when everything around you falls apart and it seems like there is nothing you can hope, or live for any more.
I say that for this unlikely and most unwelcome feat, the book deserves an extra star, if any book does.