Allegiant: Final Thoughts

October 24, 2013 Uncategorized 0

One choice will define you.

What if your whole world was a lie?
What if a single revelation—like a single choice—changed everything?
What if love and loyalty made you do things you never expected?


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 meaningless. Explosive new truths change the hearts of those she loves. And once again, Tris must battle to comprehend the 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 #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. (Goodreads)


My Thoughts: This is not going to be a typical review. I don’t think I can do that without spoiling the book way too much. I have bookish friends to do that with! Still, like many other readers I devoured the book on release day. I’ve seen a variety of different reactions and thought I’d add mine. I won’t be giving away plot points but I will certainly be talking about how it made me feel. If you don’t want to know anything at all you should probably stop reading right now. Also, don’t go to any blog posts about the book. Actually, you should probably just get off the internet because it is littered with major spoilers!!! 🙂

So, day two post finishing Allegiant… and I’m still all wrapped up about it. First and foremost, I think it’s amazing. Veronica Roth can sure tell a story. I admire her and the choices she made in writing the story as she did. And I think it’s just… right. I can’t think of any other word to use. 

That doesn’t mean I wasn’t sitting slack-jawed at parts or that my heart didn’t break at others. Sure, there are things I wish didn’t have to happen. But I don’t wish it because they are “wrong” or ruin the story or because I think Veronica Roth “owed” me or anything like that. I wish it because they are hard and sad and I wish they weren’t so true to what would likely happen. I wish everyone, everywhere got a happily ever after. I wish a broken world could easily be healed. I wish many, many, things. But as John Green writes in The Fault in our Stars, “The world is not a wish-granting factory.” So, yes, things happened that shocked and upset me. But they certainly didn’t ruin the book. Rather, I think they make the series stronger. And, while I may not re-read the third book over and over again, I am glad I ordered it in all it’s forms.  

Allegiant was an emotional end to a much loved series. No matter what happened there were going to be tears. While I was not prepared for the volume of them, I do not regret or resent a single thing. Well done Ms. Roth, well done. 

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