5 reviews for Allegiant
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Allegiant
by Veronica Roth
Description:
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 meaningliess. Explosive new truths change the hearts of those she loves. And once again, Tris must battle to comprehend to 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 No.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.
About The Author
Veronica Roth (born August 19, 1988) is an American novelist and short story writer known for her debut New York Times bestselling Divergent trilogy, consisting of Divergent, Insurgent, and Allegiant; and Four: A Divergent Collection. Divergent was the recipient of the Goodreads Favorite Book of 2011 and the 2012 winner for Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction.
Skryf Review
“Excellent Reading”
Navya
I read the reviews before my purchase but wanted to finish the series. I couldn’t even finish this book. I tried for over a month and just gave up and went to the end to find out what happened so I could have at least some closure. Like other reviewers stated; it’s very hard to distinguish between who is narrating the chapters because they sound exactly the same, the main characters seemed to have lost their sense of who they were and overall it didn’t come together to wrap up the ending of a series. I also felt like this was either a first draft or someone else was writing because the flow was just not there. Maybe the author will republish in a few years after she’s had time away to gather her thoughts and make what should have been the best book of the series a worthwhile read. I’m giving two stars instead of one because I do like how the author went out of the box with her ending (even though I love a happy ending) instead of the typical YA reads.
parth
First, let’s address the elephant in the room that is the topic of most discussion about this book: The ending. I want to make very clear that I am not a person who needs a happy ending in a book, nor did I even really expect one in this series. I don’t read books because I expect to see “…and they lived happily ever after” on the last page. In fact if this book had ended with some flash-forward to the house and kids like certain other series did, I would have been just as annoyed. That’s lame. I don’t need happy. What I do need and expect, from any book, is an ending that makes sense and satisfies the story.But I’m getting ahead of myself. The real reason I give this book one star is because the book, as a whole, was awful. I’m sorry, but this is one of the most shoddily written books I’ve ever read in my entire life. And I say this as someone who absolutely adored the first two books in this series. I say this as someone who read Fifty Shades of Grey … and Allegiant has officially taken that book’s place as the worst book I’ve ever read. And I debated somewhat on that, but I decided that Allegiant wins because, while Fifty Shades was an affront to literature indeed, I don’t actually wish I could go back in time and unread it. I wish to the heavens that I had never read Allegiant.Let me first talk about the writing style. Roth employs the use of a dual narrative in this book, a departure from the first two books. I am not opposed to this style at all – in fact, I welcome it, as I find that a single-person narrative can sometimes be restricting.
arif
A little slower read than the first two books. Still good because you want to know how it all ends. You find out more about Tris’ family and the whole secret behind the Divergent status. Since it is the third book, the sexual overtones between the characters escalate quite a bit. The ending was a bit surprising and to be honest, I thought the last ten pages or so were long winded. Overall though, I thought it was a fitting end to the series.
Angaan
I was very excited to read Allegiant–I was such a big fan of Divergent and Insurgent–but after reading the first few chapters I was extremely disappointed. Evelyn’s dictatorship on the factions doesn’t make much sense to me (how did she get control of all the factions, anyway?) There’s a whole lot of new plot twists that contradict everything we thought we knew about the story, and Four and Tris’ POVs are hard to tell apart. But the biggest problem for me is how they ended it. I won’t give away any spoilers, but the ending disappointed me. It didn’t really sum of the main theme of the series, and I think that was the problem with the entire book–what was the main theme of the series? Being different? Making sacrifices? It’s hard to tell. Still, the writing was very good, and it was undeniably interesting to read about the new revelations. It just wasn’t my favorite book out of the Divergent Trilogy. Violence: Lots of actions involving guns, explosions, and hand-to-hand combat. Many characters are injured and killed, and one is put in a coma. Sex: Lots of kissing between Four and Tris, and sometimes they take off clothing. They sleep in the same bed sometimes, and one scene makes it unclear whether or not they have had sex. Language: Stronger language than the first novel,