Allegiant.

So. I read Allegiant.

And we all know what happens at the end of Allegiant....

(Spoiler Alert)

TRIS DIES.

I'm sorry, I just need to beat up Veronica Roth right now.

Dear Miss Roth,

I'm sorry if I'm being rude, but um, WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?! Who do you think you are that you can just kill Tris. Tris is unbeatable, strong, courageous...immortal... and you just let her get shot? It wasn't even a very spectacular death! She just got shot. By some random flat, static character. And does anyone really remember what Tris died for? Shouldn't she have died taking a bullet for Tobias while fighting for their life together or something like that? No, Tris just dies because she doesn't want like a hundred people to die? That is not a good enough reason for of all people, TRIS, to die.

That's all.

Sincerely,

Erin Drake


Okay. So. Let's just talk about Allegiant for a little bit.

It was good.

But it definetly wasn't spectacular or amazing or even great.

Just good.

I must say, I am very disappointed.

First of all, I didn't like Tobia's voice. I felt like he sounded too much like Tris, and I wasn't able to deferentiate between the two. If an author has two perspectives in a novel, the voices should be totally different. I also really didn't like how information was shoved down my throat after Tris escaped from the city. The whole idea of GP's and GD's was cool, I just didn't like how it was thrown in my face.

And lastly, I did not like the ending.

All I wanted was a nice harry-potter-style epilouge of Tris and Tobias living in a perfectly normal world twenty years in the future with three kids. That's all I wanted! But I guess books can't really completely satisfy you unless you write it yourself.