Allegiant

Allegiant is the final book in the Divergent trilogy. Tris Prior and her friends must venture beyond the confines of the only life they have ever known to discover the truth about their existence. This journey does not give them the answers they hope to find and the world they discover creates conflict between the group and brings into question everything they have ever believed or held true. Tris must now choose between very different realities and ideologies and her choice will have devastating consequences for those she loves and those she has left behind.

Allegiant is the most disappointing end to a series I have ever read. Compared to the other two books in the series the pace is painfully slow. Roth seems to have run out of steam and there is not as much action as there has been in the series. Roth also seems confused about the message she is trying to convey. At times the book feels like a twisted and misguided religious analogy and at other times it feels a melodramatic judgment of high school. Roth is indecisive about which of the two ideologies she has presented is best and because of this her characters become confused hypocrites who have no idea what they are fighting for and apply rules and logic in a nonsensical manner. There are an unbelievable amount of plot holes and implausible situations that not even die hard fans will forgive.

The book starts off with a quote from the Erudite manifesto about how all questions must be answered but at the end of this book the reader is left with more questions than answers.

Don’t get me wrong, it is still worth reading so that you have the complete story. However, I had a few serious problems with Allegiant. Firstly, it was nowhere near as good as the first two books in the series and I was expecting much more. Secondly, I didn’t like how the book was written from both Tris and Tobias’s POVs. Not because I don’t love Tobias, because I do, but because the voice of the characters in each of their sections were too similar. They were so similar that I actually forgot who’s POV I was reading sometimes. At time I would think I was reading Tris when actually I was reading from Tobias’s POV, or vice versa. The author should have made the character voices more distinctive. I also didn’t like the ending, but that is a personal thing in that I prefer happy endings to my series.I also thought the action wasn’t nearly as good as it was in the first two books. Yes, there were action scenes but they just couldn’t compare with the first and second book. Nothing like an initiate stabbing another initiate in the eye with a butter knife, lets put it that way. And lastly, I didn’t enjoy the “poor me” moments in the book. Both Tris and Tobias had part of the book where they were all angst-y and feeling sorry for themselves. Normally I don’t mind a bit of angst from characters in the books I read, but it just didn’t gel with the characters as they were portrayed in the first two books (in my opinion anyway).

So yes, read this book so you can complete the trilogy and know the way it ends. BUT don’t expect there to be as much magic as what the first two books produced.

Last Week, I went to see the movie Divergent and was fascinated and enjoyed it very much.

Because of this, I immediately bought the series rather than wait to see if a movie is made of the remaining two books. Oh how I wish I has bothered to read the honest reviews first and saved myself some money because under no circumstances is this book worth the $9.99 I paid for the Kindle version. I am only 30% of the way through Allegiant and already struggling. I only get to read for about an hour at a time and the constant switching between Tris & Four’s narrative is beginning to irritate me because I can never remember who’s point of view I was reading when I put the book down and reading on a Kindle, can’t just flick back a few pages to check.

I am sick of all the kissing between Tris & Four and I am wondering why the author has it in the book at all – maybe this is aimed at the teenage reader because it sure isn’t aimed at my age group.

I hope this review is read by someone about to purchase the book because from the number of review, a lot of people have purchase it and don’t believe they got value for money.

Sorry Veronica but the first 30% of the final book in the series is a disappointment and doesn’t inspire me to read any more of your books, which is a shame because Divergent was such a good story. Maybe you should have stopped after the first book, or at least taken a little more time and given more thought to the rest of the series.

I have read the first two novels in this trilogy and enjoyed both of them, however this third book was hard to get into and I felt that the story was just “stretched” to fill pages, lots of self analysis and teenage angst by the characters and very little else. To be honest I felt ripped off, firstly because a good series dwindled into nothing in this book and secondly because I actually paid for it!
I would also like to clarify that I wasn’t put off the book by the ending , albeit one I found disappointing, it is the authors prerogative to kill off characters as she sees fit. It was the whole repetitive nature of the book that irritated me; chapter after chapter of the same agonising and self analysis told firstly through Tris and then repeated again from Tobias’ point of view. Even after the so called climax the story drivelled on through more unnecessary pages.

I don’t know what to say… This book has left me crying and I’m still fighting tears as I write this review. The first two books made me emotional and kept me thoroughly engaged throughout them and I fell in love with each and every character (with exception of a few).

I’m not sure that I have fully processed how much the author has affected me, and I’m not going to lie, I was and still am completely shocked by the decisions she made for each character. But is why it was such an amazing read. I couldn’t have predicted half the things that happened (something rare for me when I read) and although the decisions may have temporarily knocked my mental stability () I can not fault her for a moment. Unlike the first two books, we get Tobias’ (four) perspective as well as Tris’ and that definitely contributed to the story from the way we, as readers, experienced two views on subject, to the way that Veronica Roth showed raw emotion through the characters that I have grown to love…

She brought together ideas of grief and love and sacrifice and created an enraptureing story out of it. I don’t think I have ever read such a fictional and fantasy styled book that has made me this emotional.

Veronica Roth, despite making me cry and sniff with sadness, wrote with such a passion and love for her characters that I will definitely be recommending this to others.

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