Allegiant

Short Review: Not great, but not nearly as bad Amazon Reviews would lead you to believe. Overwhelmingly the negative reviews are complaining about the ending. I am not going to blow the ending, but I thought it was fine. It was not a happy ending, but it is a dystopian book, they are not supposed to have happy endings. I do have a problem with a lack of coherence with the setting. The size of the factions, the level of technology the actual geography (you can see O'Hare from the Hancock building on a clear day) are all problematic to the story telling. But fiction books frequently have problems being fully coherent. Similarly the writing as a bit flat. But there are very good books that are intentionally written flat (The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood is a good dystopian example.)

But when you mix all of the problems together it really shows. It just was not as good as it should have been. I wanted to love it. But I just could not. But it was not nearly as bad as all of the 1 star reviews would lead you to believe.

My full review is on my blog at http://bookwi.se/allegiant/