Book Review: Allegiant

If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you’d realize how I’ve never actually put up a book review before. No, I have no particular reasons for this first book review ever but I guess there will be first time for everything.

I gotta admit before I go to far into anything else that author Roth is a genius – both technically and whatnot. This trilogy of hers is so rich in details that will entrance the mind of the readers so that the readers will finish reading the books before really giving up reading (except if you don’t like “dystopian novels”, as they put it). As it never occur to me before, I finished her three books within a year’s time and am looking forward to read other novels – both by her and other authors.

With that being said, let’s start.

As it was of the previous two books of the sequel, this third one is still telling us the story of how Tris’ life went on – especially after they reveal the message from their ancestor, Edith Prior.

The beginning of the book tells us that as the factionless rule the city, people had been through their days in cells if they’re suggested as the former faction’s lackeys. But as the new rule rises, there are also rebels forming. The rebels are called “allegiant” – a group of people who wanted to stick with the city’s purpose and get out of the city as Edith Prior suggested. Allegiant is led by Johanna Reyes and Cara, an Amity and Erudite  – finally led a group of few capable people outside the city to find out more about who they are.

Things gets more complicated when the facts hits these group of allegiant who went out about how their city (Chicago, in this case) is an experimental city along with few others which have been stopped earlier due to the conflict they were facing. Chicago serves the purpose of the government to create a huge group of “Genetically Pure” people which the government believes to be what the world contained before a war humankind faces more than a century ago. Some of the allegiant found themselves strangled in more rebellion acts while others realized how small they knew with what the world actually holds.

The story finally ends in saving all that was ever worth to be saved: the lives of the people in the Bureau (even though their minds were reset-ed with a serum), the lives of the people in Chicago, and even Tobias’ mother life though it puts a lot of people’s life at expense; including Tris’.

This time, the book ‘Allegiant’ tells the story from both Tris and Tobias’ perspective back and forth as the chapters grow.

As devastating as it was as the story comes to an end, Allegiant it worth the time to read even though for those of who didn’t master English really well might want to have a dictionary at hand as some words are not what we usually have in daily life conversations or essays. For those of who are melancholic, it might as well be wise to have a pack of tissue by your side. But other than that, Mrs. Roth did an extra fine justice to what world she built.

I hoped you enjoy reading this book review and somewhat would be interested to go to your local bookstore and check out Allegiant before the movie comes out next year! –red