Allegiant by Veronica Roth

Allegiant (Divergent, #3)

by Veronica Roth

What if your whole world was a lie?

The thrillingly dark conclusion to the No. 1 New York Times bestselling DIVERGENT trilogy.

What if a single revelation - like a single choice - changed everything?
What if love and loyalty made you do things you never expected?

The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered - fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she's known, Tris is ready. Perhaps beyond the fence, she and Tobias will find a simple new life together, free from complicated lies, tangled loyalties, and painful memories.

But Tris's new reality is even more alarming than the one she left behind. Old discoveries are quickly rendered meaningless. Explosive new truths change the hearts of those she loves. And once again, Tris must battle to comprehend the complexities of human nature - and of herself - while facing impossible choices about courage, allegiance, sacrifice and love.

Told from a riveting dual perspective, Allegiant, by #1 New York Times best-selling author Veronica Roth, brings the Divergent series to a powerful conclusion while revealing the secrets of the dystopian world that has captivated millions of readers in Divergent and Insurgent.

Reviewed by Joséphine on

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Actual rating: 1.5 stars

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.

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