Allegiant
by- Veronica Roth
Stars- ☆☆☆☆☆
Rating- T-MT
Allegiant is the third book in the trilogy called the "Divergent Series" by most who wish to refer to it. I have already reviewed the first two books which both received four stars because they deserved it. With this book however, I cannot say the same. It starts off well enough and seems well thought out but the farther you get into the book the more vague and random it seems. The plot line is basically the main character Tris just stopped a small dystopian civilization from turning into a chaotic war zone. At the end of the second book she had just revealed a tape that showed that their society was nothing but an experiment from some higher power, and that outside the bounds of the city another civilization exists. So with that major plot twist in mind, Tris sets off to try to find the people who set up the experiment in the first place. Some secondary characters were killed, which brought tears to my eyes but that was nothing compared to the ending. At this point I should warn you I am going to spoil the entire ending of the book, so if you do not wish to know how it ends or simply find out for yourself please stop reading after the asterisks (***). This book is rated Teen to Mature Teen because of a sex scene with the main character and her boyfriend. That is the only sexual content in the book. I gave it three stars because of the way it ended, which I will spoil below.
***SPOILERS***
The ending quite frankly made me want to scream and beat up the author. Basicall,y the main character, after surviving the Death Serum, a poison no human is supposed to be able to resist, and saving her home city from mass memory washing, gets shot and dies. This was the most unexpected thing I have ever read in a book. How could Tris, the main character, gone through all of that suffering and then resisted the Death Serum, and impossibility in all contexts, and then get shot, and die. I kept expecting her to come back and not be dead but she didn't. She was just gone. It is probably the worst ending in history, and the best. First off it basically made me want to hit things and then curl up in a corner and sob and then it made me want to explode. Finally I had to come to terms with my feelings, and I eventually realized I had a great amount of respect for the author. I mean to kill off your main character, and in that way, that takes guts. Logically it is a five star book, but it will make you feel as if it is a negative eight star book. I was almost tempted to give it five, but I just couldn't bring myself to. In essence this book is like a rose bush. It looks beautiful and wonderful but will leave you with so many scars. But in the end, I believe it was absolutely worth it.
