Allegiant (Divergent, #3) in Addicted to YA

Jan 25, 2014 Ellie rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: ya, dystopia

I really wanted to like this book. I couldn't wait for it to come out. But when it did, it had lost most of the emotion and excitement of its precursors in favor of political commentary and dry descriptives. The dual narrator choice made it possible to see things from Tobias's perspective as well as Tris's. But the author didn't give each narrator a different style, so I often forgot whose chapter I was reading. I also found myself curious about things the author didn't describe, like *SPOILER A ...more

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Dec 07, 2013 Charity rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I am literally at a loss for words. I have just finished Allegiant and I am speechless. I’m sitting here thinking about the last few weeks that I have read all three of these books and I cannot believe the wild ride I have been on.

I fell in love with Tris and Four from the very beginning. I was angry at her when she would do something stupid, I was happy when they could finally be together and I balled like a baby when the book ended.
I absolutely thought that the series was going to end with T I am literally at a loss for words. I have just finished Allegiant and I am speechless. I’m sitting here thinking about the last few weeks that I have read all three of these books and I cannot believe the wild ride I have been on.

I fell in love with Tris and Four from the very beginning. I was angry at her when she would do something stupid, I was happy when they could finally be together and I balled like a baby when the book ended.
I absolutely thought that the series was going to end with Tris waking up from a serum induced coma and either the entire series was a dream or maybe just after her Dauntless initiation was a dream, especially after she finished first in her initiation class.

The ending was a surprise to me, other readers thought that it was obvious, but books just don’t end like that. Especially not YA books, there has to be a silver lining and a happy ending so that the audience wants to read other books by the author. I have heard such crazy and differing opinions about this book that I wonder how the author is doing.

I did not like the first 200 pages of this book. It was slow going and I felt like I was trying to run in sand. But the last 100 pages moved like the first two books. I think the reason it was so slow was because Roth had to introduce and explain the whole idea of the Genetically Pure and the Genetically Damaged people. She had to explain why it was a big deal to both sides and show what it was doing to the US. Those facts and ideas were so boring, but after it’s over, I now know why she had to go through all of that to get us to see why the ending had to happen the way it did. I think another reason that it moved slow for me was because of the switch of the point of view. Whenever there is more than one character in a book it makes me want to take a break between each character, it doesn’t matter what is going on, I’m just not very good at reading those types of books. I understand now that it’s over why it was written like that.

My heart goes out to Tobias, or Four as I like to call him. It makes sense that he just wants to forget it all. Poor guy, I’m glad he has some friends to keep him together. Along the lines of Tobias and his chapters, it was genius how after chapter 54 there were no more chapter clarifiers, that made me sad all over again.
I hope I haven’t given any unintentional spoilers, I tried to be as cryptic as I could for those who haven’t read, but that those who have were able to know what I was referring to. I gave this book 4 stars where Divergent and Insurgent were both 5 out of 5 stars, I gave the small difference not because of her bravery in Roth’s ending, but because of the slow pace of the beginning of the book.

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May 04, 2014 Erika rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2014

So I was a bit late to get around this whole Divergent-book thingy. I had to watch the movie twice before I got myself around to reading Divergent - or at least finishing it. Then I did, and then I finished Insurgent almost as quickly. And with a yelp of frustration I hurried to buy Allegiant from Kindle Store.
And then I started reading... and just minutes ago I had to put down my Kindle, because no more book for me. That is just so unfair and that's not all that's so deeply unfair. I more than So I was a bit late to get around this whole Divergent-book thingy. I had to watch the movie twice before I got myself around to reading Divergent - or at least finishing it. Then I did, and then I finished Insurgent almost as quickly. And with a yelp of frustration I hurried to buy Allegiant from Kindle Store.
And then I started reading... and just minutes ago I had to put down my Kindle, because no more book for me. That is just so unfair and that's not all that's so deeply unfair. I more than ever wish I had never read this book, and heaven knows, I have read far more books than I would ever be able to mention, and never have I felt this way about a book before.
Not only does the plot fail, but there is no clear idea as to why the story had to end this way.

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