Can't say too much about this book other than I didn't like the dual pov in first person. Multiple times I had to refer back to the beginning of a chapter to realize whose voice I was reading in.
Didn't really like this one as much as Divergent but still gets 3 stars. ( )

AR POINTS: 17 READING LEVEL: 5.7
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Allegiant, the last in the Divergent Trilogy...DONE! This is not my usual interest in books, but I do have a 15 year old granddaughter who is highly interested in reading these. Girls her age are loving them. I’m just reading to earn big brownie points.

This whole series gets an average, and generous, 3-star rating from me. It started out strong and pooped completely out in book two and three. In the first book, it was young love, fresh and new and I was excited for the relationship developing. Tobias was a leader and strong and in self-control (and very good looking), and Tris was learning to become self-assured and strong. But, by book two the honeymoon was already over as the factions were falling apart. If she wasn’t mad at him, then he was mad at her...back and forth...back and forth until I was totally exhausted.

In the third book, Tris and Tobias, still bantering back and forth, and still not quite sure if they can trust each other, get together with a group who will actually leave the city for the first time to find out the truth about the outside world. They call themselves the Allegiant. They find that they are government experiments, who have been told lies all their lives, and they are not alone. The government has placed their test subjects in isolation from each other in several major mid-west cities, and they were being watched 24-7 from surveillance cameras set up around the city and transmitted to computers set up at government bureau centers outside of each city. The others have basically failed. Chicago, with it’s five factions, is the only one left, which had been successful for a century up until now. The goal of the experiment was to change DNA to more pure bloods, eliminating the bad parts of personalities over time. But, the experiment failed and so they were actually trying now to reverse what they had done. The result were the Divergents...back to normal personalities. The problem? Not everyone was changing at the same pace. Tris was Divergent, but Tobias was still considered inferior and unworthy to the bureau...and he started acting like it (I didn't like this weakening of his character at all). This caused even more friction between Tris and Tobias, and between everyone else who was or wasn’t Divergent, which takes up a huge part of this book. Ugh!

The bureau is watching the five factions totally collapsing and warring between those who want to keep the factions and those who no longer want it. So the bureau wants to do a “reset”. They want to spray a viral spray over the city that will erase most of their memories, even of their family ties, which will cease the fighting and the process of creating and assigning the factions can begin again. The Allegiants decide to stop this from happening and devise a plan to have the bureau’s minds erased instead because they don’t believe there is any real fault in either types of DNA and they don't believe people's history should be erased.

It will be interesting to see how my 15 year old granddaughter rates this series. ( )

I hated this book of the Divergent series. I loved the first two and I fell madly in love with each and every sentence from the first two, but this book was the biggest disappointment I've ever read. The book starts out slow and boring, and when all the action happens near the end, it just ends. There is no plot simmering away into a beautiful ending, but a lame, predictable ending that makes this book not worth the twenty dollars I spent on it. I would not suggest anyone read this series if they plan to read the last book. One star. I'd put zero stars if it were possible. I regret reading this book and it's series because of Allegiant. ( )

Wow, dude, I really did not like that ending. ( )

I was super disappointed. I gave it 2 stars at first, because I couldn't quit reading. However, after writing this, I dropped it to 1. My disappointment...

1-she switched voices throughout the book starting in the 3rd book of a trilogy. What? Do it throughout or don't do it at all.... UNLESS it makes absolute sense. In this case, it just should have told me that Tris was going to die. Grrr....

2-She didn't actually have different voices for the different characters she stepped into, she just told you she was telling the story from their point of view now by putting the name at the top of the chapter. However, I had to constantly flip back to the beginning of the chapter to figure out who was talking. Extremely frustrating.

3-The story took a turn that wasn't in line with the world she created in books 1 and 2. In a dystopian society, you ask the reader to suspend their disbelief. If you change the rules in book 3 of 3, you introduce all sorts of questions to the reader... Like, why didn't anyone in the city question where anything came from? Really? And you want me to believe in books 1 and 2 that they are super smart people???? Doesn't work.

4-She dies? The main character for 2 books of the trilogy (in first person) and one of the main characters in the 3rd. Again... dystopian, you want me to believe and see someone overcome great strife, you better be consistent and the main character better be the one that overcomes.

4a - If she had told the story from Tobias's point of view or even 2nd or 3rd person from the beginning, she would have avoided all the character inconsistencies and disappointment. It's ok to kill people off, but not if they are the only one speaking from the beginning and all of a sudden, you switch.

Overall.... FAIL, and it makes me leery to read more YA distopian trilogies. ( )