Review: Allegiant by Veronica Roth

Title: Allegiant
Author: Veronica Roth
Series: Divergent, book #3
Publisher: Harper Collins
Publication Date: October 22, 2013
Source: purchased
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One choice will define you.

What if your whole world was a lie?
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.

I was afraid to pick Allegiant up. If you’re alive and kickin’ then you know that the buzz is not good. Now that I have read it, it’s very clear why. I’m going to try and explain in the most Non-Spoilery way.

When I read Divergent, my biggest complaint was, not knowing why they were there in Chicago. I mean, what about the rest of the world. Are they stuck in the City? Can they not leave? What’s out there? While Insurgent was action packed, it still did not give me any of the answers I wanted until the very end.

In Allegiant, you learn every little thing, details and all. I felt overloaded and bored. It’s a huge information Dump. Bigger than any dump I’ve ever taken, that’s for sure.

Then on top of all that, you can’t trust anyone, you have no idea who’s telling the truth, you just really have no idea about anything. I will give Roth some props though because I didn’t expect it to go in the direction it went. I’m not really sure what I was expecting to be beyond those gates, but it certainly wasn’t that. I was kinda left thinking.. really? That’s what all this hoopla was about?

I’ve seen that many readers did not like the ending. That's to be expected because the ending sucks. I’m not going to say much about it, but I was pretty pissed I pushed through all that other garbage to reach a conclusion like that.

You see, I thought the whole book sucked. I might have been okay with the ending, had the rest of the book been amazing, but it wasn’t. The only plus I can really give it, is that it did wrap up. There weren’t really any loose ends, so that’s good right?

I’ll be honest, I’m not nearly as excited about the movie now. I’m sure it will be great and I’ll definitely see it, but I won’t be able to watch it without thinking of how it all turns out.

About the author:

Veronica Roth is from a Chicago suburb. She studied creative writing at Northwestern University, and wrote DIVERGENT (Katherine Tegen Books, May 2011) and INSURGENT (May 2012). The third and final book in The Divergent Trilogy, ALLEGIANT, will come out on October 22, 2013. In the meantime she will spend endless hours browsing Wikipedia in her pajamas as she eats corn flakes. (Or some other kind of bland breakfast cereal.)

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