Look at how long it has been since I reviewed Insurgent and guess how I felt about this book. It wasn’t horrible, but I just never felt the desire to keep going, so it took forever to get through. I have basically the same complaints that I spoke of in my reviews for the other two books. It started out pretty good, then more-or-less declined from there. I felt no connection to the characters and didn’t care what happened to them at all. I won’t give specifics to avoid spoilers, but a couple of places bad things happened that were supposed to be sad, but I felt absolutely nothing for them. The idea was great, but it was poorly executed. I feel like the first-person POV is to really give your readers an emotional attachment to the character, but these books failed to do that. I did really enjoy the part where you learn why everything is the way it is and about the outside world. Being focused on world building myself, that was very interesting and fun, but it doesn’t effect how I feel about the book as a whole.
I’m not going to tell you not to read it and I would never bash another writer, but I won’t be rereading these any time soon.
Allegiant by Veronica Roth
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