One Choice Will Define You

Allegiant (Divergent #3) by Veronica Roth

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.

Let me know what you thought about the entire series! Keep Reading my friends!