Name: Luisina Rivoira's review of Allegiant by Veronica Roth
Item: Allegiant
Rating: 1
Author: Luisina Rivoira

Veronica Roth

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 explosive conclusion to Veronica Roth's #1 New York Times bestselling Divergent trilogy reveals the secrets of the dystopian world that has captivated millions of readers in Divergent and Insurgent.

Allegiant

The explosive conclusion to Veronica Roth's #1 New York Times bestselling Divergent trilogy reveals the secrets of the dystopian world that captivated millions of readers and film fans in Divergent and Insurgent. 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? Told from a riveting dual perspective, this third installment in the series follows Tris and Tobias as they battle to comprehend the complexities of human nature—and their selves—while facing impossible choices of courage, allegiance, sacrifice, and love. And don't miss The Fates Divide, Veronica Roth's powerful sequel to the bestselling Carve the Mark!

Sarah Campbell

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.

My memories of Tris, some of the most powerful memories I have, have dulled with time, as memories do, and they no longer sting as they used to. Sometimes I actually enjoy going over them in my mind, though not often. Sometimes I go over them with Christina, and she listens better than I expected her to, Candor smart-mouth that she is.

The truth is, I’ve made my peace with Caleb, but I still can’t be around him for long. His gestures, his inflections, his manner, they are hers. They make him into just a whisper of her, and that is not enough of her, but it is also far too much.  

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. 

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.

I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last. 

I used to think that when people fell in love, the landed where they landed, and they had no choice in matter afterward. And maybe that’s true of beginnings, but it's not true of this, now. 

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.

What if your whole world was a lie? The thrillingly dark conclusion to the No. 1 New York Times bestselling DIVERGENT trilogy. DIVERGENT – a major motion picture series.

Allegiant (Divergent Trilogy, Book 3)

Jess

"Yeah, sometimes life really sucks," she says. "But you know what l'm holding on for?"

“The moments that don’t suck” she says “The trick is to notice them when they come around”

It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she's gone.

I wonder if this is how it is with all evil men, that to someone, they look just like good men, talk like good men, are just as likeable as good men. 

Her eyes make me think of wide-open skies that I have never actually seen, only dreamed of. 

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.

Amelia

Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can't escape that damage.

Then she says something, and her hands spring open, and she steps back from Uriah's body. Letting him go.

I move away from the window, walking at first, then running, pushing my way through the hallways, careless, blind, empty. 

I am terrified and I don't even know what of, because I have lost everything already.

When her body first hit the net, all I registered was a grey blur. I pulled her across it and her hand was small, but warm, and then she stood before me, short and thin and plain and in all ways remarkable - except that she jumped first. The Stiff had jumped first.

I feel a thread tugging me again, but this time I know that it isn't some sinister force dragging me toward death. 

This time I know it's my mother's hand, drawing me into her arms.

 Can I be forgiven for all I've done to get here?

More pain, and black edges in my vision, but I hear Caleb's voice speaking again. The green button.

I start to fall, and slam my hand into the keypad on my way down. A light turns on behind the green button.

I slide to the floor. I feel something warm on my neck, and under my cheek. Red. Blood is a strange colour. Dark.

But I can't bear up under the serum's weight. My body falls to the side, and my wounded arm presses to the cold ground. I am drifing. ...

"Let them have the city and everything in it," she says into my hair. 

I can't move, can't speak. She chose me. She chose me.

I also know, I just know, that I can survive this. 

"Are you here to help or what, Stiff?" I say. I hear myself speaking in the voice I cultivated as an initiation instuctor, but this time I use it in jest. "You could use some practice in that right arm, if I recall correctly. You too, Christina."

"Shh," she says. "If you don't acknoledge it, maybe it will go away."

I notice, however, that Peter only pretends to inject himself - when he presses the plunger down, the fluid runs down his throat, and he wipes it casually with a sleeve.

"Well," I say eventually. "Let's just say it will erase the phrase 'genetically damaged' from everyone's vocabulary."

Luisina Rivoira

YA. Love stories. Science fiction. Horror fiction. What if a single revelation like a single choice changed everything? What if love and loyalty made you do things you never expected? The explosive conclusion to Veronica Roth's #1 New York Times bestselling Divergent trilogy reveals the secrets of the dystopian world that has captivated millions of readers in Divergent and Insurgent.

After putting this off for a year or two, I saw the first two movies and decided to bite the bullet and go back to read this. Such a disappointment, even though the first two were certainly not brilliant. Divergent  was perhaps 3.5 to 4 stars, and the second one 3  but this was so much worse.

First off this one is in alternating POVs and I actually had to repeatedly go back to see whose POV I was reading if they weren't naming the other one. Roth was unable to make them sound any different. Secondly, the plot was weak. Reading this put a blight on much of what I thought about the first two, to be honest. Then of course, there were some poorly thought out plot devices at the climax of the book, etc. I only read this because my daughter and I will probably end up watching the movie when it comes out, and as you can see, it can't be much worse than this rating unless they focus primarily on the violence a la the LOTR movies.

Karin

After putting this off for a year or two, I saw the first two movies and decided to bite the bullet and go back to read this. Such a disappointment, even though the first two were certainly not brilliant. Divergent  was perhaps 3.5 to 4 stars, and the second one 3  but this was so much worse.

First off this one is in alternating POVs and I actually had to repeatedly go back to see whose POV I was reading if they weren't naming the other one. Roth was unable to make them sound any different. Secondly, the plot was weak. Reading this put a blight on much of what I thought about the first two, to be honest. Then of course, there were some poorly thought out plot devices at the climax of the book, etc. I only read this because my daughter and I will probably end up watching the movie when it comes out, and as you can see, it can't be much worse than this rating unless they focus primarily on the violence a la the LOTR movies.

Anna 

** spoiler alert **
           Aliance se vypráví jak z pohledu Tris, tak pohledu Tobiase, takže máme možnost nahlédnout do hlav oběma postavám, a díky tomu se konečně trochu vyznáváme v tom, co kdy kdo dělal a jestli pořád lže nebo ne. 
Aliance byla dobrá v tom, že jsme se přesunuli ven, za město, a zjistili jsme, co se vlastně stalo. Ale to je tak všechno. Kniha se mi opět táhla a pořád jsme svědky snad toho nejhoršího vztahu v dějinách YA. Taky jsem si uvědomila, že na hlavních hrdinech mi vůbec nezáleží, měla jsem ráda jen Uriaha a Fernanda, který se objevil v druhém díle asi na 15 stránek :))
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3*/5* 
Celou sérii vám tedy za mě nedoporučuji, vyhněte se jí obloukem, protože o nic nepřijdete, nic vám to nedá, a akorát tím ztratíte čas.

Shannon C

Well. I've had this book since it came out back in October but I got spoiled so I didn't want anything to do with it. But with the Divergent movie coming up in less than 2 weeks, all I could think about was the characters and how I wanted to read about them, so I picked up the book again and finished it. Even knowing that spoiler, I still bawled my eyes out and that's all there is to say......

Megan Parrott

Allegiant is easily my least favorite of the series. There's just too much going on, and I was often too distracted by the tangents to maintain an interest in the only characters I wanted to see through to the end – Tris and Four, of course. It is what it is ... I love Shailene Woodley in the role of Tris, so I'm sure the movies will be decent.

such mixed feelings about this AAAAAAA, didnt really want to read it but wanted to finish the trilogy. like the second book, decisions and characters left me frustrated as fuck and the ending felt super rushed when the rest of the book felt slow. tris’ death did shock me though and reading the aftermath and effect it had on four got me in the feels so i wasnt entirely mad about the ending. 

Chloé

okay so..... why just why, I enjoyed the first two WHY VERONICA.

Monicap

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

JUST WATCHED THE FUCKING COVER REVEAL ON THE TODAY SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My REVIEW:
Plot: 3.5/5
There were several things I didn’t like about this book.
But, the thing is, I’d been spoiled, so I knew what all this was building towards, and it might have annoyed my more than it would have otherwise because of that.
The first half of this book, though, was just a train wreck. 
First off: ON THE DUAL PERSPECTIVE
 I would have been far more accepting of the dual perspective IF Tris and Tobias had been located in different places and were experiencing different stories. I mean, I REALLY wanted Tobias to stay in Chicago, and if he had, more things could have happened with the instability going on there. Instead, they both left the city together and kissed and teamed up with the scientists and stuff. I didn’t think the dual perspective was really useful until the second half. When I got to the second half, I understood why the dual perspective was necessary, though. (The Dual Perspective actually ended up reminding me somewhat of the way dual perspective was used in the 19th Animoprhs book, the one with Cassie morphing into a Butterfly on the cover)

The end of Insurgent promised EPIC WAR AND FIGHTING outside the city. It was lie. It was very disappointing. 
Instead, we got picked up by some scientists who thought that most of the populace were ‘genetically damaged’ and the city was an experiment and the factions were a lie!
THAT WAS YOUR WHOLE SERIES, VERONICA ROTH. YOUR WHOLE SERIES. And then there were theses two characters introduced. A pretty boy who became friends with Tris, and a pretty girl who became friends with Tobias. I was like: “Seriously? You are DOING this to me?”
I hated them. (And I’ll talk more about them in the Characters section of this review)

Then there was the random attack on the compound that really seemed to have no place, especially because nothing came of it, and then other stuff happened that I don’t even really remember….

And then the second half. The second half included basically redoing that random attack on the compound, except planned better and done for different reasons. 
The last 50-100 pages saved this book for me. They were epic and emotional, and it suddenly made sense to me (the spoiler that I knew we were building towards).

Characters: 4/5
Tris: I honestly don’t remember the first half of this book really well, so I can’t speak to how I liked her character there, but in the last 50-100 pages… Tris was at her absolute best. I cried and I laughed for her.
Tobias: Again, I liked him better towards the end. When he went to the city to confront either his mother or his father, and he talked to Evelyn… that conversation is PROBABLY my favorite conversation that Tobias has participated in. Becuas eI loved his emotions in that conversation.
Caleb: Oh, Caleb. Again, I only really remember the end, and what I feel for him is somewhat tainted by what Tris did, but I really came to not hate him so much. I didn’t love him, I didn’t like him, I didn’t not like him, and I didn’t hate him. I think that, at the end, I felt the same way about him that Tobias did. (view spoiler)[He was all right, but he reminded me too much of Tris and what she did (hide spoiler)]
Tori: WHY??? Why would you destroy that ENTIRE character arc?
David: I can’t believe it took until Tris confronted him at the end to figure out he was in love with her mother. I figured that out around the same time that he first mentioned her name.
Peter: Oh… well. Peter. I agree that what h did was the action of a coward… but it was also the only action I can really see Peter taking, given the way his character has been developed.
Matthew: This is the pretty boy that befriended Tris!!! Now, I didn’t REALLY like him when it became obvious that he was befriending Tris while Nita was befriending Tobias. But I liked him better than Nita because he had a purpose outside of doing stupid things and creating romantic tension.
Nita: had two purposes: to do stupid things to drive the plot forward, and to create romantic tension. I HATED her.
Uriah: go look at my status update. Look at it. Then come back, and I will tell you how tightly I was holding onto him. (view spoiler)[and then Veronica Roth RIPPED him away from me (hide spoiler)]

Romance: 
Oh, man. Do NOT make me talk about this right now. I—I just can’t. Tomorrow, maybe. Or the day after.

So, I’m not going to calculate the grade for this book, because I know that numbers can not possible encompass my feelings. Especially, since I felt so drastically different about the two halves of this book.
If I could rate the two halves differently, I’d give the first half 3 stars and the second 5 stars. But I can’t, so I’m just going to split it down the middle and give this book 4 stars.

I DO think I will reread this someday. I know that much of my enjoyment was lessened because I had been spoiled, but if I reread it, I know that that will make it more natural. I’ve already read it, so the spoiler isn’t really a spoiler anymore. I’ll also be able to understand what’s going on more objectively. 

So, yeah.

I have to go spend some time recovering from this.

Melissa J

De todos los libros de la trilogía, fue el que menos me gustó. Tal vez sea por su inconsistente final o porque las razones dadas por las cuales sucede esto o lo otro me parecen poco profundas. Además, de cierta manera, pasa de una Tris fuerte e independiente, a una que perdona todo y que se cuelga del amor como si eso fuese lo único importante en el mundo. Para mí es más importante en un libro que prime la amistad sobre el amor, y que las mujeres descritas en él no sean dependientes del amor de un hombre. 

Falló en este punto, pero del resto podría decirse que está bien.

Sarah Sammis

So it all comes down to this dude?




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Rahmat Junaid

i think i should buy a brain that has not read this or at least reread insurgent to wipe this memory of allegiant off of my head, sigh.

chloe rae

2.5 out of five stars! 

I honestly have no idea what to say about this book. I don't even think I know how I FEEL about this book. Can I just say that I had crazy high hopes for it? And, somehow, it managed to crush mostly ALL of them? When you love a series as much as I loved this one, you expect the last book to be AMAZING. But it wasn't. It wasn't at all. I mean, the whole time I just kept saying "whaaaaat?"
Let me start off by saying it took me a ridiculously long time to read this book. I started this in NOVEMBER and I'm just now finishing it. My main excuse is college, of course, but if I had wanted to read it, I would've made time. And man, I just didn't want to read this book!
Firstly, it was just so boring. I don't know why but nothing really peaked my interest. I barely got into the book in the last 50 pages. So it took about 450 pages to even get me interested and that's just so crazy to me.
Secondly, what's sad is the fact that this book is NOTHING like the previous two. I constantly felt like the author was just making stuff up and I couldn't understand why she was having the characters do these things. Nothing seemed to make sense to me and I hated it. I REALLY wanted to like this book at the end because I kept hoping it'd get better but it just got worse.
And lastly, this book just made me stop caring about these characters and I'm not sure if that's ever happened to me before. This book was so useless that I just STOPPED CARING. Hoooow does that happen? Tobias and tris were like my OTP! But in this book everything just felt...I don't know. Forced? Fake? There were some nice moments between Tobias and tris that I liked but I didn't loooove them.
Overall, I'd say this book was just massively disappointing. In the end, it's not that I'm mad about how she decided to wrap things up or end the book. I'm just disappointed with the writing and I think it could've been soooo much better. I wouldn't say I'm glad I read this book but I think I would've always wondered how it ended. So if you feel like you need to read this, go ahead. But just keep in mind you might be setting yourself up for disappointment.

Emma Campbell

I literally finished this book in less than 24 hours, I could not put it down. 

But now I feel just empty. My heart has been ripped from my chest, thrown into a blender, and then chopped into baby fine pieces, only to be thrown back into my face with a roll of tape and the only command being "fix it." 

Don't get me wrong. The book was absolutely amazing. Please, if you are even considering reading it, do it.

What if your whole world was a lie? The thrillingly dark conclusion to the No. 1 New York Times bestselling DIVERGENT trilogy, now available in paperback. DIVERGENT - a major motion picture series, INSURGENT movie release in 2015

Anna

The ending nooooooooooooo whhhhhhyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!

ayessa

I gave it 4 stars because I loved it and I hated it. It gave mo so much feels and I haven't cried over books yet since Harry Potter. Tobias's reaction just killed me even more. The way he acts when she was gone.

"I don't know how long it takes for me to realize that isn't going to happen, that she is gone. But when I do I feel all the strength go out of me, and I fall to my knees beside the table and I think I cry, then or at least I want to, and everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more."

Rianne van der Wiel

I really hoped this book would be a nice closure for the series...

But honestly? It sucked balls...

I just finished this book and I just want to smash this book against the wall! You can't end a book like this! 

As much as I fell in love with divergent, I honestly and am sorry to say that I will not recommend this book to fellow readers.. Stop after Insurgent and imagine your own ending. It will certainly stop you from *insert fangirl frustrating scream here*

Lydia 

Cigdem O

** spoiler alert **
           alah snei kahretmesin veronica ya main char oldurulur mu boyle… baglanmadim saniyodum ama 2 aydir trisi okuyorum istemeden de olsa baglanmisiz puf gozumden yaslar akmadi degil 😩😩😩

Melissa Palmer

Book #3 Read in 2014
Allegiant by Veronica Roth (YA)

This is the final book in a dystopian young adult series. The main characters are Tris and Four; they have become leaders in a war zone of factions and those who think they know what to do for the good of all. Tris and Four are strong characters but in this book they spent more time arguing with each other than working together, which got annoying after a while. 

There was a lot of hype and furor about the ending when this book first was released and now I know why. The ending did disappoint me, not only for what happened but how it happened. Overall though, I liked the book. In this book, I focused more on the political happenings and whether any peace would be reached rather than the relationship between Tris and Four. This is a series that I enjoyed and would recommend.

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I’m not even lying because I’m salty about the ending — I did not enjoy this book. It felt very out of place and almost like the author killed off the main antagonist in the second book, so she has to create a completely random one out of thin air, and wanted to have a shock ending to make it different then all the other young adult novels of this time. 

I don’t mind how it ended, but the execution (pun intended) should’ve and could’ve been better. It was in character what happened, but so rushed and forced. 

This just felt like a completely different book from the other two. The other two were cheesy at parts, but interesting, and this just felt super random. 

I’m not even lying because I’m salty about the ending — I did not enjoy this book. It felt very out of place and almost like the author killed off the main antagonist in the second book, so she has to create a completely random one out of thin air, and wanted to have a shock ending to make it different then all the other young adult novels of this time. 

I don’t mind how it ended, but the execution (pun intended) should’ve and could’ve been better. It was in character what happened, but so rushed and forced. 

This just felt like a completely different book from the other two. The other two were cheesy at parts, but interesting, and this just felt super random. 

Lauren Grey

I have to be honest and admit that I didn’t like this book very much. I felt that the beginning was extremely slow and hard to get into. The first book took me a few days to read and the second one and a half, but this one took me about two to three weeks. That’s crazy! I felt the series started so dynamic and made you want to keep reading, but once you make it to the last one it just begins to disappoint.

The story line involving the pure and damaged genes kind of lost me. I didn’t like where she went with that. It was a bit confusing and out there. I just felt that there was so much she could have done with the ending of the second book… going beyond the fence should have been exciting and interesting, but it wasn’t.

Knowing me, you know that I love the romance between Tris and Tobias and I didn’t like how she made Nita get in the way or make them doubt their relationship. I am still a huge Tobias fan… he will forever be my favorite, but I wish they would have ended on a happier note.

*spoiler* I object to killing Tris! Why in the world was her death even an option. She is the main character and I just found it horrible that Tobias has to live without her now. And yes I understand that he was only eighteen and that the world goes on, but they lived in a different world than us and I just feel like their relationship was more than that. On the other hand I completely understand why she did it. Tris realized that in the culture and beliefs that she grew up with, having her brother die out of guilt was wrong. I don’t hate Caleb or wish it was him instead of Tris… I just wish neither of had to die… If anything David could have died, because he was horrible.

I’m glad that Chicago was restored and was able to function without the factions. The ending was only sad, because of Tris’s death. I thought the epilogue was perfect! Zip-lining was exactly how Tris would have liked her ashes spread and having Tobias face his fear in honor of her was just great!!

I’m sad that the series is over, but I felt like this book could have been a little more exciting.

Briar's Reviews

I hated this book of the Divergent series. I loved the first two and I fell madly in love with each and every sentence from the first two, but this book was the biggest disappointment I've ever read. The book starts out slow and boring, and when all the action happens near the end, it just ends. There is no plot simmering away into a beautiful ending, but a lame, predictable ending that makes this book not worth the twenty dollars I spent on it. I would not suggest anyone read this series if they plan to read the last book. One star. I'd put zero stars if it were possible. I regret reading this book and it's series because of Allegiant.

It took me a while to finish this book, definitely more than the previous ones in the series, and I'm still not convinced I like the point of view from where it's told, as much as I understand it.
Leaving that aside, I found it slow and sometimes repetitive, and most of all, I saw a lot of what happens coming, which took some of the magic away.

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