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Allegiant (Divergent, #3)

Veronica Roth

Finish date: January 26, 2015

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Dec 02, 2017 Scott Flicker rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I seemed to like this one a lot more than the second.

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Mar 25, 2014 Jessica rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult, dystopia

With the release of the movie, I read all 3 books this week. The first two are worth it - well written and interesting in their world building. This one? Terrible. The format of the first books is abandoned, and it was obvious to me that (view spoiler) due to this. Very disappointing. ...more

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Aug 23, 2014 Sabrina Poole rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult, series, 2014, dystopia

I now understand and completely support my decision to hold off reading the final book. I didn't care for it and I am not happy with the ending. I even took a break from reading this book as the middle was reading more like a science text and going nowhere. More like 3.5 stars. ...more

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Jun 08, 2013 Tanya rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: with-dd1, 2014, genre-young-adult, list-if-you-liked-hunger-games

There were parts of the book where I couldn't tell which character was speaking, Tris or Tobias. Too many of their thoughts were the same. The ending was satisfying as well as the final message, "Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can't escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other."

Other quotes I liked from the book:

p. 25 "Chaos and destruction do tend to take away a person's dating possibilities."

P. 134 " I There were parts of the book where I couldn't tell which character was speaking, Tris or Tobias. Too many of their thoughts were the same. The ending was satisfying as well as the final message, "Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can't escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other."

Other quotes I liked from the book:

p. 25 "Chaos and destruction do tend to take away a person's dating possibilities."

P. 134 " I need that word [divergence] to tell me who I was when everything else was coming apart around me. But now I'm wondering if I need it any more, if we every really need these words...[is it possible] if we can just be friends or lovers or siblings, defined instead by the choices we make and the love an loyalty that binds us."

P. 346 (regarding the government) "when you control information, or manipulate it, you don't need force to keep people under your thumb. They stay there willingly."

p. 372 "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.

p. 455 "He is a part of me, always will be and I'm a part of him...I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me-they, and the love and loyalty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could."

p. 473 "She taught me all about real sacrifice. That is should be done from love, not misplaced disgust for another person's genetics. That it should be done from necessity, not without exhausting all other opto=ions. That it should be done for people who need your strength because they don't have enough of their own."

p. 509 "There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater. But sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain, and the work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life. That is the sort of bravery I must have now."

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Nov 07, 2013 Melyssa rated it liked it · review of another edition

I liked this trilogy, but didn't love the third one as much as the previous two in the series. If I could, I'd give it 3.5. I think it really could have been two separate books, which could have allowed for more breathing space for the plot. I had a hard time keeping the secondary characters straight, so I wish I had read this one closer to when I read the second book in the series.

As far as the ending of the book, I see what the author was trying to do. That's all I saw without spoilers. I also ...more

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