Monday, December 16, 2013

Allegiant

Allegiant by Veronica Roth

I don't hate the book, but I hated the realities of the ending to this story. I suppose when you rise against governments over and over and over and keep surviving, things are bound to one day not go your way.

Part of me wants to hand the trilogy over to all my friends, and part of me wants to throw the third book out the window.

I will say this - I read the first book three times. I still am not sure WHY I loved it so much, but I did. Sadly, this book felt different. I understand that characters must grow and change with experience, but I felt like another author wrote this ending without deeply understanding WHY the first books were liked. It wasn't just the huge change in plot direction to genetic town (i.e. hello Mockingjay all over again), but something more was missing. I think this book suffered because of my own expectations too. Too high, too high.

Also, why does Tris always have to choose something different than Four, and she's always right? It made their relationship so unbalanced in the end. Too much drama.

Book three of Discovery of Witches better be awesome. Otherwise, I am done with all these damn trilogies.



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