The third book of the Divergent series, Allegiant, was released on October 22 this year. It being the final book in the Divergent series, people flocked to the stores to buy it and pre-ordered it online. In fact, my best friend pre-ordered it for me as a birthday present.
Divergent and Insurgent readers will know that Allegiant focuses mainly on the world outside the fence - outside Tris Prior's world. Tris, Tobias, and a couple of others join a rebel group known as the Allegiant, with which they attempt to go outside the fence to find out more about the world outside.
All of us fans were dying to know what lay outside the fence and what was in store for Tris. We all wanted to know what being Divergent really meant. True, all of that is revealed in Allegiant, however, the book has several loopholes and is not the exciting thriller we all imagined.
Okay, to explain this without spoilers is hard, but I will try my best here.
Sure, the book addresses all the main points about Divergence, but what about the rest of it? Tris and Tobias's relationship goes on and off, since they begin to have differences concerning Divergence. Caleb, Tris's backstabbing brother, is rescued. Caleb and Tris begin to get closer, though Tris has doubts about his motive for being nice to her, especially after delivering her to her execution in Insurgent. Christina and Tris do not hang out with one another as much as they used to, and *SPOILER ALERT* Uriah enters a coma, stays that way for most of the book and then dies.
Personally, I felt that the best part in the whole book was when Tris begins to find out more about her mother, Natalie Prior - who sacrificed herself for Tris in Divergent. Her mother was not the person Tris thought she was and through her mother's journal, she begins to feel closer to her mother, as if she is getting parts of her back through her words.
*HUGE SPOILER ALERT* Tris dies near the end of the book, sacrificing herself for her brother Caleb, who was to enter the Weapons Lab. Caleb had no chance of surviving, while Tris, being Divergent, had a slim chance, but she died. Tobias is left mourning her. Tris dying was the worst part of the book. Though the death itself was not very shocking, Tobias's reaction to it is heart-wrenching. True, Veronica Roth has shown her writing skills by making the readers cry. However, Tris's death was just too much to bear, and you will hear the Divergent fans say now, "I didn't ask for them to live happily ever after! I just asked for them to live!" No one ever imagined that the protagonist would be killed off, and this was what ruined the series.
Frankly speaking, Allegiant was a lukewarm ending to the Divergent series, and though Veronica Roth feels she did justice to her characters, many loyal fans feel the other way. There could have been a much better ending, and while reading the book, it came across as a not-very-well-thought-out plot. Like I said earlier, there were many loopholes, and there are many questions remaining unanswered at the end of the book.
I would say that, though the first book was the best in the trilogy, Allegiant is still a good dystopian novel. What makes it worth reading is that it is the final book in the Divergent trilogy, and that we finally come to know what Divergence really is. It's a book worth reading - even if it pains us. After all, a good series is one that makes you happy and excited, at the same time makes you terrified, cry and hurt. And the Divergent trilogy does that.
Divergent and Insurgent readers will know that Allegiant focuses mainly on the world outside the fence - outside Tris Prior's world. Tris, Tobias, and a couple of others join a rebel group known as the Allegiant, with which they attempt to go outside the fence to find out more about the world outside.
All of us fans were dying to know what lay outside the fence and what was in store for Tris. We all wanted to know what being Divergent really meant. True, all of that is revealed in Allegiant, however, the book has several loopholes and is not the exciting thriller we all imagined.
Okay, to explain this without spoilers is hard, but I will try my best here.
Sure, the book addresses all the main points about Divergence, but what about the rest of it? Tris and Tobias's relationship goes on and off, since they begin to have differences concerning Divergence. Caleb, Tris's backstabbing brother, is rescued. Caleb and Tris begin to get closer, though Tris has doubts about his motive for being nice to her, especially after delivering her to her execution in Insurgent. Christina and Tris do not hang out with one another as much as they used to, and *SPOILER ALERT* Uriah enters a coma, stays that way for most of the book and then dies.
Personally, I felt that the best part in the whole book was when Tris begins to find out more about her mother, Natalie Prior - who sacrificed herself for Tris in Divergent. Her mother was not the person Tris thought she was and through her mother's journal, she begins to feel closer to her mother, as if she is getting parts of her back through her words.
*HUGE SPOILER ALERT* Tris dies near the end of the book, sacrificing herself for her brother Caleb, who was to enter the Weapons Lab. Caleb had no chance of surviving, while Tris, being Divergent, had a slim chance, but she died. Tobias is left mourning her. Tris dying was the worst part of the book. Though the death itself was not very shocking, Tobias's reaction to it is heart-wrenching. True, Veronica Roth has shown her writing skills by making the readers cry. However, Tris's death was just too much to bear, and you will hear the Divergent fans say now, "I didn't ask for them to live happily ever after! I just asked for them to live!" No one ever imagined that the protagonist would be killed off, and this was what ruined the series.
Frankly speaking, Allegiant was a lukewarm ending to the Divergent series, and though Veronica Roth feels she did justice to her characters, many loyal fans feel the other way. There could have been a much better ending, and while reading the book, it came across as a not-very-well-thought-out plot. Like I said earlier, there were many loopholes, and there are many questions remaining unanswered at the end of the book.
I would say that, though the first book was the best in the trilogy, Allegiant is still a good dystopian novel. What makes it worth reading is that it is the final book in the Divergent trilogy, and that we finally come to know what Divergence really is. It's a book worth reading - even if it pains us. After all, a good series is one that makes you happy and excited, at the same time makes you terrified, cry and hurt. And the Divergent trilogy does that.
