Allegiant
Ratings647
Average rating3.2
Though I always have high hopes for the happy ending, I was satisfied with how this ended. Much better than Mockingjay.
Loved this book as a middle schooler, but now, not so sure. I think Roth did a great job of writing the novel and developing the plot, so when Tris died, I was completely shocked. Looking back though, Allegiant took a unique turn, and I must applaud Roth for making that choice.
3.5 stars
I only gave this books this rating because of its ending. The writing was horrible and too full of unnecessary feelings; also four's point of view was written very badly. It was too girly but the ending was perfect, hence the four stars.
i always wonder how heroes stay alive in all books and movies though they are the ones to face most danger and it kind of made me doubtful of most of the books i read. But in this book it seemed adequate that tris dies although it was very sad and it made me cry for several pages. Hell, I almost sobbed.
This series wasn't so bad. The first book was written best, then the writing went downhill. I am not exactly sad to be leaving it behind but i have to admit that it leaves a sort of hollowness within me, especially because of its ending.
Sigh
Goodbye Tris, and tobias!
By this book I was getting tired of the series and could have easily stopped reading at any point. My favorite part was the ending—not because it was over. The ending was surprising and very well written.
I got about halfway through.
I didn't actually finish this book.
I don't actually want to finish this series.
I don't want to face that utter disappointment you feel when a series with such strong potential withers and dies in front of you and there's nothing you can do to stop it.
There are far better written things out there worth my time and my curiosity alone is not enough to hold my attention.
I read a few heavy reviews and a summary of the plot, spoilers and all, to see how it ended. I'm not surprised, but I had hoped the writer had more.... I can't think of the word. Just, more.
The themes I had hoped would be prominent in this series are not the themes the author chose to focus on. Too much individual sacrifice and not enough teamwork. I had hoped this would be a journey culminating in a celebration of life and humanity in all its strengths and weaknesses. Ending in a sort of uniting of the factions in people's hearts and minds, you know actually “building better worlds” and all that...
I wrote a short story when I was in high school that culminated in such a sacrifice, remembering that mindset I can understand why YA readers would like these books... I just don't agree that the direction the series took after the first book was necessarily the best possible choice.
John Cleese has a really good talk on Creativity that you can find on youtube and such places everywhere. It's brilliant. In one iteration of this lecture he said that Graham Chapman (a fellow python) was always far funnier than him, but his one fault was that he never took his ideas far enough. He always stopped at the point where something worked well. Which is ok, but John Cleese would work an idea until it was really good, and then work on it more, until it was incredible. That's why he was always the better creator. (Forgive my paraphrasing) I wish more creative people were taught to work that way. This and many other disappointing series may have been brilliant as a result.
In the end, it is what it is. It's not a bad story, it's just not a great story.
The author is young, she's got plenty of years and many more stories to write, some of which I'm sure will indeed be great.
P.S. beacause I'm a huge nerd and “Building Better Worlds” is the Weyland-Yutani Corp slogan, this as a hilarious and ridiculous tie in to the Alien/Prometheus/Predator worlds is pretty funny.
I kind of hated Tris by the end, but I enjoyed the story and liked the way it ended.
Fascinating trilogy.
That ending is going to take me a while to process...
...
A Couple Hours Later: after crying (a lot) for a while, I'm bumping my rating up to 5 stars. And even with the ending the way it was, this was my favorite book of the three. I know a lot of people hate this one, so I wasn't expecting to like it as much. But it turned out to be a really beautiful story of what it means to be truly brave.
And now I'm crying again, so I think I'll end my review here. This book is going to stick with me.
I watched the movie long before I read this, and the book is just as disappointing as the movie. I can't agree more with the sentiment that both POVs sound the same.
Aviso: pode conter spoilers.
Wow, nem sei por onde começar. Este livro foi mais lento e com uma leitura mais demorada que os dois primeiros, mas que me cativou igualmente devido a todo o dilema dos “geneticamente puros” e “geneticamente danificados”.
Fiquei triste com o plot twist que se deu com a morte da Tris e toda a dor e sofrimento sentida por Tobias, que devo dizer, foi muito bem escrita e que a autora conseguiu passar através da sua escrita. Fiquei mais triste com a dor de Tobias do que propriamente a morte da sua namorada, Beatrice.
Estou a adorar completamente esta saga apesar de ter adiado um pouco a leitura das últimas, talvez, 150 páginas porque a certo ponto, começou a tornar-se uma leitura aborrecida, ou talvez fosse o meu estado de espírito na altura, não sei. Quero definitivamente ler o último livro que acabará a saga, apesar de ter um pouco de receio pelo facto de a narrativa já não ser feita pela Tris.
HOW DARE SHE SMILE AT US IN THE JACKET PHOTO.
OK, Veronica Roth. You see what happens when you decide to kill your main character/narrator? Yeah, you have to CONFUSINGLY ADD IN A SECOND POV. Maybe this wasn't her choice, but I wish they'd printed the narrators' names at the top of each page- sometimes I'd forget which voice I was listening to and had to search for “Tris” or “Tobias” on the page to figure it out.
I can't judge this book effectively outside of its context as the third part of a trilogy, so I won't try.
Having Tobias narrate some chapters was amazing. It was a terrific idea, which should have probably been introduced much sooner so it wasn't so abrupt and weird and hard to adjust to. But I did like it (once I was used to it). Hearing him grapple with not wanting to become what he hated, that was really important to me. I wish we'd gotten to know him so deeply sooner.
I laughed a lot, and yelled at the characters a lot (sorry family), and the scene in the airplane left me breathless.
I think there was too much making out towards the beginning of the book. Can you guys see each other and NOT kiss? I love romance as much as the next teenage girl but, please, I'm gagging.
I'm still kind of confused about what exactly Tris and her friends were trying to accomplish towards the end with all those serums. I'll have to go back and re-read that part. I know she and Tobias both strayed from their initial declared plans, but I'm not sure the plans were what I thought they were to begin with. I don't know. A lot happened at once that was hard to keep track of. But I did feel the desperation and the urgency. Except in the bit where they possibly had sex even though it doesn't really say either way??? Children??? You have LESS THAN FORTY-EIGHT HOURS AND MORE IMPORTANT THINGS TO DO IN THAT TIME THAN MAKE BABIES WHO WON'T SURVIVE THE FIGHTING YOU'LL HAVE TO DO. Maybe I'm reading the wrong thing into the absence of details, but that's what it sounded like she was skipping over.
Anyhow, I loved the highlighting of the importance of friendship and forgiveness, of honoring family ties whenever possible, and knowing that love is not a one-time thing and then it's set and done and Happily Ever After. It's continually choosing a flawed person who will keep making mistakes, but who makes you the best YOU possible. I also appreciate the very casual inclusion of gay and lesbian characters. No big deal, no earth-shattering ramifications for Tris wondering “HOW DO I DEAL WITH A GUY I KNOW BEING ATTRACTED TO ANOTHER GUY I KNOW?!” but just “here's some people. they like each other. or one of them likes the other. sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't, for a wide variety of reasons. gravitation between two people is a thing that happens in the real world and in this one, so here it is.”
I hope you have enjoyed this immensely disjointed book review.
Oh yeah P.S. this book contains more obscenity than the previous two (four letter word starting with S. I'm too tired to remember if there are other S words, LOL). Warning for, um, all the kids reading the book? It's worth noting, even though it's not that much, it's in there.
This was terrible. Only the narration save it. At least I'm finally finished with it.
I feel like i just lost a limb...yet i'm so happy about the loss. Roth you are killing me!! I'm a giant puddle of emotions!!!
3.5 Stars
This was way better than the second book. I really liked the world expansion in the first half of the book but then stupid decisions came back.
The dual point of view was confusing since I couldn't guess which character was which until they mentoined each other (even the audio book didn't help).
The ending.... was quite unexpected. I liked the last chapter but that doesn't make up for the plot and science flaws the book had. I don't consider myself an expert in social psychology but I studied medi and I cried a lot about the so called “genetics” in this books (that's why it took me so long to finish it).
This book was finally what I was hoping from the others. Characters not fully likable (not intended to be), but consistent with established personalities. There were complex dilemmas of genetic modification and discrimination that were interesting and there were no Simple Shiny Answers to all the problems. Satisfying ending overall.
My favourite of the series, i loved everything about it.
The writing style is beautiful, the feelings are so genuine and true!.this book made me cry in a good way and i loved it so much ❤
This book was not to bad. I liked it better than Insurgent, but not better than Divergent. Sometimes I did think the story was a little slow at times, but for the most part the story was fast paced. I would say that this book is average, but it is still worth the read.
Book 2 for #TBRTakedown
I don't even know what to say. Beyond disappointed. But I did finish it finally so I am weirdly proud of myself.
Basically I was disappointed with the direction of this book. The ending seemed rushed and I felt like Roth was just throwing new things out there randomly with little to no structure. I do have to say that I was spoiled for the “big thing”, which may have affected my thoughts, but I just did not enjoy this book.
I thought there was way too much drama between Tris and Four and Four was way too moody for me. I also do not think there was enough delineation between the Tris and Four chapters. They felt the same to me and it was not an enjoyable experience when the POV suddenly changed with no change in the style of storytelling as I have come to expect with changing POVs.
That was really jumbled but I'm very frustrated after finishing this series.
I wasn't sure what I thought about this right after finishing it.
A few days later, I think I really liked it.
The series as a whole definitely had its flaws... particularly, I feel like it could've been two books instead of three, as Insurgent and the first half of Allegiant seemed a little bloated.
But.
I LOVED the relationship between Tris and Four. Especially after reading so much about 50 Shades and Twilight and thinking about what sort of relationships are being modeled there.
Their relationship is so healthy, so real. And it's not some fairy-tale, either: they disagree about things, they make mistakes, they hurt each other. But for the whole series, they talk, they love each other fiercely, they raise each other up. They make each other better people, they give each other strength.
All the way home I thought about what Amar said, about every relationship having its problems. I thought about my parents, who argued more often than any other Abnegation parents I knew, who nonetheless went through each day together until they died. Then I thought of how strong I have become, how secure I feel with the person I now am, and how all along the way he has told me that I am brave, I am respected, I am loved and worth loving.
“And,” I say, “I think you're still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.” “I am,” he says roughly. And I kiss him. His arms slip around me and hold me tight, lifting me onto the tips of my toes. I bury my face in his shoulder and close my eyes, just breathing in the clean smell of him, the smell of wind. I used to think that when people fell in love, they just landed where they landed, and they had no choice in the matter afterward. And maybe that's true of beginnings, but it's not true of this, now. I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.
logical ending? yes. the ending I wanted? no. it wasn't a bad book, but not what I wanted. it felt detached from the rest of the series. I hate to say it, but I wish I stopped reading after book two.
Update: 5 days later.
I wasn't happy with the end. I know I wasn't the only one. I thought somewhere Veronica Roth would explain WHY she gave it that ending. I wasn't happy with her response either. She said she always intended for Tris to die. Maybe that was true, but I think there is another more important reason she never addressed. Readers loved Four. I loved him too. I found myself unattached to Tris and instead eagerly awaiting the next time she saw Four. The third book felt less about Tris and more about Tobias. The last few chapters and an entire book dedicated to Four solidify my theory that Roth changed mid stream. It became more about overcoming the trauma of childhood, than Tris' need to save the world.