Reviewed by Joséphine on
Initial thoughts: For the most part, I feel apathetic. I didn't hate Allegiant but I certainly didn't care for it either. The set-up was fuelled by some intriguing ideas but with so many plot holes, hardly developed. Tris and Tobias continued to be as uninteresting as ever, made worse by the narrative choice.
The alternating points-of-view were jarring for two reasons: (1) Divergent and Insurgent were from Tris' POV, so to change that in the concluding book obviously was so that in some capacity, it could continue without Tris; (2) Tris and Tobias sounded exactly the same, which made it a little confusing sometime. At one point, I even wondered why Tobias was suddenly kissing "him" because I missed that that chapter belonged to Tris.
To finally learn about what lay beyond Chicago should've been a point of excitement. Instead, it drove the series to ridiculous mess. The world building crumbled, lacked any semblance of structure, and the explanations were too convenient without truly answering questions about the ethical implications and the importance of consent for things to have gone this far.