Allegiant (Divergent, #3)

by Veronica Roth

[empressbrooke]

I liked Divergent quite a bit. I spent all of the last few days not being able to remember anything that happened in Insurgent (and in fact couldn't remember what the title was to save my life). This final book in the trilogy was...ehhhhh.

The writing wasn't very good and the dialogue was downright painful. All of the characters "grin" far too much. The chapters flipped back and forth between two main characters' POVs and no effort was made to give them different voices, which led to some moments of confusion when I mixed up who that chapter was following.

The side characters apparently weren't well developed enough in the previous books for me to remember who most of them were, so the oh-so-sad scenes where they mourned the dead ones had no impact whatsoever. Even the Big Event at the end that would have left me going, "Oh no they DIDN'T" in another book didn't even make me blink.

There were some interesting bits, and I liked the initial reveal of the world outside the fence, though the logic of it all quickly fell apart. Also, having lived in Chicago, I'm disappointed in how small the author made the city seem. There's a hell of a lot more to it than just Michigan Avenue, the Hancock Tower, and the Merchandise Mart, although you'd never know it from reading this book.