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 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 #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.
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0You can pretty much read any of the top rated comments to see how I felt.
In a nutshell, this one was no better than the others, and there were HUGE giant plotholes which is amazing considering that it felt like nothing was happening for most of the book.
Also, Tobias was so sunken in grief it was like a New Moon flashback. And killing Tris was probably the most realistic but also a huge letdown, considering how unrealistically she has done everything up to this point, including surviving.
This just gave the idea of genetics more of a bad reputation--there may be a smidgen of evidence that some genes may increase the vague likelihood that certain behaviors/traits may be expressed, but this is so far removed from "you have bad genes therefore you can't be held responsible for what you do and have limitations that will never be overcome (aka GD)". And this sudden switch to genetics discussion, away from all the faction stuff didn't make sense to me. The first two books were cramming this same message of 'do not stereotype' and 'people are individuals that should be free to make their own choices and be responsible for them' down our throats with so many people making choices within their factions. And how the factions limited people as well as take some characteristics away from them. Then suddenly I felt like these same messages were trying to be further shoved down our gullets but from a genetics standpoint, as if Roth saw the movie Gattaca and tried to squish it into her storyline. This just fell flat and was pointless and painful to me.
I didn't like the characters any more than I have in the first two books, some of the secondary characters came across as far too flat to even be interesting. The ending was way too convenient, with a hugely stupid epilogue that left me scratching my head, then throwing my hands into the air because I didn't care anymore.
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