Allegiant question

While I sorta saw it coming, I still didn't want it to go down that path at all. I was really hoping that the person would make the sacrifice (the gesture) and still survive. Sure it was was best writing in the book after that, or at least the most emotionally gripping, but I felt like the rest of the book sorta lacked by comparison.

I don't think it was necessary at all. To me the book was about Tris and Tobias learning to work through their issues, and finally figuring out that they helped strengthen each other. So why kill Tris after they finally figured out how well they worked together? The point about grief etc. seems less important and interesting to me than how Tris and Tobias would grow together, in the book's words, in the "quiet moments as well as the loud ones."

I don't think it's a either Caleb or Tris, either. I mean, Tris can still save her brother to show she loves him etc., fight the death serum, but then what if Caleb came in and saved her from David's shot? What was all that about Tobias teaching Caleb to fire a gun anyways? What if she just didn't leave her gun behind? There are so many ways she could've been spared.

Killing Tris off is just melodramatic to me, and the epilogue about Tobias coping seems less powerful than a conclusion about how Tris and Tobias would've learned to deal with normal life after the war.

I had a feeling that it might go that way. There was no doubt in my mind that Tris was going to replace Caleb, and it occurred to me that she might die, but I agree that it seemed unnecessary. Although, when you're an author, sometimes the characters themselves dictate what happens more than anything else, and there's no doubt what happened was consistent with the characters of both Tris and David.

I don't feel like that was necessary at all! I didn't think that VR would actually do that. I'm devastated. I bawled my way through the ending

I hate that VR killed Uri and Tris both unnecessary. Very disappointed

I don't think it was necessary, and furthermore, I don't think it even made sense. David was utterly convinced of his GD/GP theory, and Tris was very clearly one of the most genetically pure people around. From David's point of view, Tris was so valuable, so important to the advancement of mankind...so why would he kill her? He would have seen it as absolutely essential that she pass on her fantastic, pure, death serum-defying genes. I just really can't believe that convinced of his theories (however misguided) as he was, that he would kill someone like Tris, completely wasting all of her genetic value. Not to mention, he shot her without even really knowing that he was in danger. I just find it hard to believe that he would have considered the Chicago experiment so worth saving that he was ready at the drop of a hat to kill one of the experiment's "success stories".

It would maybe be one thing if David was portrayed as a completely irrational, impulsive nut job, but he wasn't, and I just don't buy him doing something so incredibly stupid and fundamentally at odds with his life's work.

You only get one chance to end a trilogy. VR chose the wrong way. It cost her a portion of her fan base as well.

Obviously I didn't want it to end that way, but I do think it was necessary.

I thought VR could have ended it better. She does give us hope that the character will live but then just cruelly takes all that away and kills them off anyway. I still loved the book and the rest of the series though. I am just quite annoyed and depressed right now.

I for one cannot be put through another ending like that and will probably never read another book or series written by her...

I didn't think it was necessary and completely didn't see it coming. Why put them through all of that and have them finally decide that they are right for each other only to kill her so heartlessly. I mean, the man was in a wheel chair and couldn't even maneuver corners a day or two before. And to add insult to injury, none of the bad guys died. They all just went on their merry way.

John Green's work stands on its own. The book I read of his with a tragic ending was true to itself, and he kept and maintained the reader's trust with that ending.

I don't feel the same way about Allegiant.