Allegiant (Divergent Series, 3)

At this point, I'm not even sure what to make of this book... Uriah was my favorite character and Veronica Roth just murdered him...... How can a person write a book, ruin all the character's lives, and live with themselves? I mean, Tris wasn't close to me as a reader, but she was close the Tobias and that's all I needed to care about her too. This whole book was tragedy after tragedy and I feel like that's starting to become a book trend. Happily-ever-afters were too commonplace so now we're getting all of these beautifully written tragic endings. Well I was suspicious from the beginning since it switched perspectives but I didn't think Roth would really do it... I'm glad Tobias went on the zipline in the end, but there were plenty of things I disliked about the book as well. Such as Caleb. I frickin hate his guts as much as Katniss's mother and they're both alive at the end of Allegiant and Mockingjay! and Peter basically isn't Peter anymore... and of course I've already mentioned Uri, my poor baby, knocked into a coma by an explosion cause by Nita and that b*tch walks free? You've GOT to be joking. I did really love how Tobias and his mom started to patch up their relationship and how she chose to give up her power without him having to erase her memory. So sweet <3 and at least Zeke and Shauna got to be happy? because, and correct me if I'm wrong, I'm pretty sure they are the ONLY relationship still alive and happy at the end of this book.... So just my thoughts, not a formal review or anything and I'm not even sure what to rate this book >.<

*edit* I'm feeling a bit more collected so I'd just like to point out actual writing problems with the book. The alternating POV. It was ridiculous! I've said previously in other reviews that a way to pick out a good writer is how their characters come across. More specifically, the way the author can change perspectives and you know exactly which character is talking without any actual reference to who is who. This didn't occur in Allegiant. The only way I could tell who was talking was because the chapters were labeled. It got easier later on, but that was only because they were doing things without each other, so the other person definitely wouldn't be seeing certain things. However, when they were together you literally COULD NOT tell them apart, like I would be reading and it would say 'tris said this' or whatever and I'm like wait I thought you WERE Tris...'
The big issue with this for me is that it either shows really bad writing skills by not being able to make her character's distinct, OR Veronica Roth is emphasizing how similar Tris and Tobias are.... can't make up mind mind on which is the truth though.

It's been a while and I'm going to finally rate this book a 2.5 and shall round down to 2 for the Goodreads scale. It was an alright book, It did make me cry and that doesn't happen too often so that's something, but I still can't believe I waited so long for this book to come out and that's all I got from it.

I think maybe I had already lost interest in the series before I even started this book. But sometimes the third book in a series makes you fall in love all over again by tying things up in a fun and interesting way. Not so with this one. It was pretty boring. To the extent that I even became interested in some of the characters earlier in the series, this offered us little insight into them. Even the new setting in the third book didn't breathe any life into the story. I gave it an extra star because it gave a final resolution to the whole story, which I appreciate.

I didn't mind this book at all but it really wasn't as good as divergent. The action and the feelings and the relationships were so clear and well defined in the first book and her ideas were sooo great that I think almost any continuance of them wouldn't quite live up to expectations. The second book was good but slow going at times. This book was really slow and was too much about the genetics. I loved how it made us understand the experiment and why it is in place but after finding out did we really need all the politics? I'm not a fan of that type of direction in books so personally I wasn't as thrilled. The ending wasn't too shocking to me I have to say I did see it coming, actually I thought more characters would have been included in the "surprise."
My main dislike was everything with four and Tris. They got into arguments and at times I thought for sure Nita, Cara, or even Matthew would be added into a love triangle but nope just a tiny argument. I liked them as a couple in the first book but honestly I didn't like them together after that.
All of this is of course my own personal opinion. Overall it seemed like this was never really planned and she wanted simply to I've her fans an ending because they wanted one. Divergent still is one of my all time fav books for now (who says you have to love the whole series!?) and i do appreciate the continuation of the series. Thanks for writing an interesting series and for the fav book!!