Allegiant – Veronica Roth

Allegiant is the final book in the dystopian Divergent series, and honestly, all I can say is I’m still trying to comprehend what happened, how the series that I liked has come to an end, and one of my favorite characters dead and gone, putting all my love from the story into evaporation.

By the way, if you intend on reading this review, I suggest you first read both Divergent and Insurgent, or read my previous Divergent Series book reviews before coming here and reading this one, mainly because I don’t want any spoilers leaked out and making you not read the book. Unless you already have, then by all means, stay :D.

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Allegiant picked off when Chicago’s entire faction based society was completely destroyed. There are no more factions, and as I found out, all of the Divergents were actually key in figuring out why the factions were made, and how the experiment had gone so horribly wrong. Tris hopes that she and Tobias can settle down, along with their friends having lives next to themselves, and possibly have a family of their own, but if that was the case, the book would have a happy ending, and that’s not quite exactly the intent that Veronica Roth had in mind while writing this book. Although it was a pretty cool book, the ending left me in tears, absolutely devastated from the series of events that lead to the ultimate deaths following the climax for the book.

This time, the book was written in dual perspectives of both Tris and Tobias. This led me to the fact that one of them might suffer greatly, and maybe have that subtle indication of death following their bodies. Foremost, I liked listening to both Tris and Tobias’ POVs but I couldn’t quite feel that spark I had felt in the first Divergent book. Frankly, Tobias didn’t really sound like himself, but maybe it was the case that Veronica was showcasing his true vulnerability that (ngl) made him sound a lot more like Tris.

I think that I grew quite close to a bunch of the characters (Tris, Four, Uriah, Zeke, Christina) particularly in this book, mainly because I could really see how each of the characters were broken in some way or the other, like for example Uriah being traumatized from both Marlene and Lynn’s death scenes, even though he puts a mask on and tries to hide his revealing pain. It literally shattered my heart to revel in their insecurities that they masked and harbored in their hearts, and to see that despite the pain, they keep making friends and expanding their horizons instead of cowering away from the world and isolating themselves to deal with their anxiety.

I think one particular character that struck me as peculiar was Evelyn, Four’s mom. At first, she was making me feel unsure about her, about how she literally abandoned her son with the abusive hands of his father, and tries to reconnect with him as soon as he sees her resurface with an army of factionless men.

So this book has quite a lot of anxiousness that had my nails almost tearing into the pages with terror, but overall it was quite a nice book, except for of course the end *sobs dramatically*.

Thank you for reading my review of this book <3