Allegiant (Divergent, #3)

by Veronica Roth

[inlibrisveritas]

Allegiant was one of my most desired books this year for a few reasons: 1-It’s the ending to a series, and I desperately need to finish at least one. 2-The ending Insurgent kind of made me confused and I needed to know what was going to happen. 3-Tris and Four are kind of badasses and I usually enjoy seeing them do bad ass things. However as you can see my rating on fell on 3 Stars, and that last one was very grudgingly rewarded.

The plot of Allegiant is very slow and there is a lot of information to take in, though honestly with the amount of talking and thinking I sat through there didn’t seem to be enough of anything to make the length interesting. We do get a few action-y scenes but they are few and far between, so it’s mostly just talking. Or in Tris and Four’s case fighting and making up in a sappy fashion…on repeat…I honestly wanted to shake these two until they got their act together. THe good thing is that I wasn’t expecting the reason and explanation we were given, but the bad thing is that it was kind of a stupid reason. It works and seems realistic, but overall after everything we’ve been through it was a tame reason. Allegiant really seemed to lack something that Divergent had in abundance. I didn’t really find it fun or thrilling.

The characters from the previous books are pretty much the same if a bit shell shocked. The new characters…well I honestly don’t really remember the differences between them, except for maybe two. It made it hard to really connect with anyone or care about the new conflict brewing, it was like watching a random episode of some government thriller show you’ve never seen before.

The ending deserves it’s own little section in this review because so many people have flipped out over it, and I totally get why. However this is the whole reason this book didn’t fall in the 2 star category for me. I loved the ending and thought it fit perfectly. It is a polarizing piece of the story though so you’ll either think it works or you won’t.

Allegiant was kind of a let down overall and while there are some parts I will remember fondly I can honestly see myself forgetting most of this book. I think if you’ve reading the first two books then you should definitely read the end, but I can only recommend borrowing it unless you just want to own it. At 526 pages it’s very lengthy and I felt most it, but I am glad to see how the series ends.