With Four, Tris must escape after the world-shattering revelations of Insurgent and go past the wall. It was so paint by numbers and repetitive that it became predictable because there’s no time for nuance thanks to all the arbitrary info being thrown around and all of the random things that keep happening because Tris is obviously appropriate and in part. Now, I am not saying for a fictional novel everything needs to make perfect sense, but in this case, it is not too much that the factions make no sense (even after most of the mumbo jumbo experimental bs Roth’s concocted to force some logic on the system – garbage I saw coming ever since Insurgent’s out of nowhere ending) as much as the factions are so clearly composed the manner they may be to strengthen Roth’s message of how stereotyping is awful that they make no sense outside of that context. Four finds out that he is not really divergent (um, ok?), and then he totally breaks down and promptly loses all the increase he had carried through in the first two books and does something stupid. The next installment of the hit Divergent series franchise, ALLEGIANT takes Four Theo James and Tris Shailene Woodley into a brand new world, a lot more dangerous than ever before. We’re all here crying (read: sobbing our eye sockets dry) because of this end. The same as the characters in the novel, the despair wipes away any heavy philosophical mulling about what happened in the storyline, I might have. Rather than attempting to conclude the old battle between the factionless as well as the factions, the novel tries to take on an entirely new conflict between the damaged and the pure, leaving little to no room for appropriate character development and making the plot convoluted. Mainly, the inorganic way that the events are shown crushes the effect this end was looking to reach.
Keeping her intentions in mind, I however believe this ending failed in the execution of it. Like Uriah’s injury and dying, a whole lot of this ending was tied up with her departure. This was a lot like Divergent where there’s a lot of writing that is decent but not much plot movement. And yet, even with the repetition along with the predictability as well as the deus ex machina moments, this storyline proved to be a confused mess and most of it was not completely necessary to where we went. It was simply one of the few interesting things concerning the book, though I thought the love triangle” was unnecessary and slowed the storyline down. Plus, he spends all of Allegiant being broken down and we never actually see him assembled back up. For a last novel so manufactured most of it is spent on (poorly done) exposition to explain it all away, Tris and Caleb to me felt like the sole thing real about any of it, the one character development achievement in a sea of plot development failure. This info dump is compounded by several things: 1) Everything we thought we knew in regards to the outside is a lie and some things we thought we knew about the people on the inside is a lie, too; 2) Tris knows nothing about the outside so things that people understand about as readers keep being off-handedly explained to her and also not described to her; 3) lots of what Tris must figure out is science and history, and there is not the adequate foundation needed to help with suspension of disbelief. In Allegiant, we have to overthrow the tyranny of Jeanine Mathews 2.0/3.0. It is the same fight. I am talking about seriously the second part isn’t even out yet and people rated a novel that’s likely not even written yet! The careless manner her death is written and shown makes the ending appear like it was just written just for a cheap shock value.
We tend not to accept selfishness, stupidity, pride, as section of us. We want to remove it. It is vilified by us. And when confronted with the opportunity to be rid of it, we’d probably require it. The harm and death of even Uriah felt just like a plot point for Four that was ultimately completely glossed over. Basically, the genetically damaged are more unlikely to survive, while the divergent are likely too. Abruptly, tensions are growing between the factionless along with the Allegiant (the group who desires to re-establish the faction system) and Evelyn decides she’s planning to make use of the Erudite passing serum to wipe out her adversaries. Admittedly, I Have ever been a skeptic of Veronica Roth’s books – Divergent was junk dressed up as a dystopian, Insurgent pretty much failed at everything except piling on the bullshit – but, as I called in my Insurgent review, there was simply something about Roth’s end game that had me interesting. She showed her change into the bravery that she originally wished to have way back in Divergent. Constantly I kept forgetting I was reading a novel that is a continuance of the Divergent trilogy. The book gets a little preachy appropriate before this part where the characters start talking about erasing someone’s memories is fundamentally bad-unless you’ve got great motives, naturally.
The closure for Tris was, I think, the best section of the book (and interestingly enough, not because it was finally over and done with). Now I’m assuming this was seen as foolish, because Allegiant makes it an experiment and takes this society. That is only what she, as an individual that is reckless that is selflessly, would do. But considering that there was a totally good man involved in this ending that needed to be redeemed (cough Caleb cough) who did not offer to give himself to save his sister, I’m challenging the true motivation for why this ending was picked. The Divergent Series: Allegiant is set for release on March 10th in the united kingdom and March 18th in the States, using a cast which includes Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Octavia Spencer, Naomi Watts, Jeff Daniels, Ray Stevenson, Zoe Kravitz, Miles Teller, Ansel Elgort, Maggie Q, Keiynan Lonsdale, Jonny Weston, Mekhi Phifer, Daniel Dae Kim, Nadia Hilker and Bill Skarsgard. A part of me understands the point is the fact that Four isn’t perfect; he has four anxieties, but those four fears are so much bigger and more frightening than most people’s ten or twenty (or my thousand). The American Government in Allegiant wouldn’t make two wrongs in hopes of obtaining a right. He started to become Cassandra Clare prose essentially and that is NOT what I desired in Allegiant. I really don’t comprehend how Roth believed this was a successful way of ending the show that explained her. EDIT (7/11/13): The ending is far from being the worst thing about that book, but I did read the author’s website post about what she was aiming for. Basically, I just enjoyed two things – Tris and Caleb’s relationship, and the ballsy ending (for like five seconds).
Here’s the matter, Divergent as a series is built around one quite easy, quite clear proposition: we should all be treated as people rather than stereotyped into some faction, Dauntless or Erudite or Candor (except Roth’s doing the stereotyping anyhow, like what’s up with only the Erudite wearing glasses?). Cue the forced psychological and dramatic finish as we’re forced to read Four’s awful reaction to her departure where readers drown in a puddle of the feels. I had a few problems with it (mainly that it spelled out a bit too much for the reader, lacked finesse together with the handling of themes, and was sometimes pretty predictable) but the character development was breathtaking, the storyline was heart-thumping and since it’s a young adult novel, I believe Veronica Roth did a pretty darn decent job:)Most readers will love it. True, I Have ever been a skeptic of Veronica Roth’s novels – Divergent was nonsense dressed up as a dystopian, Insurgent except stacking on the bullshit, failed at everything – but, as I predicted in my Insurgent revi Clearly, I simply don’t get it. I don’t have any problem with sad endings, bittersweet ends, happy endings, if not unresolved endings SO LONG AS THE FINISHING MAKES SENSE WITH THE BODY OF THE JOB. Allegiant was surely the ultimate book of a hoopla-copter of a string that left millions of readers invested. Now lem me clarify: if this convoluted storyline didn’t leave me wanting to go back to the equally ignorant but at least fascinating notion of the factions and really made sense, then I would not be as frustrated as I am. Not almost. When folks asked me what my favorite novel was I ‘d say Divergent and I am unsure what to answer anymore.
