We've got all the latest news on the Allegiant movie -- including trailers, posters, and guess on changes in the novel. Keeping her intentions at heart, I still believe this ending failed in it's execution. With her departure, a large amount of the termination was hurriedly tied up like the harm and dying of Uriah. This is a lot like Divergent where there's a lot of decent writing although not much plot movement. And yet, even with the repetition as well as the predictability as well as the deus ex machina minutes, this plot was a confused mess and most of it was to where we went, totally unnecessary. It had been simply one of the few interesting things about the novel, though I thought the love triangle" was unneeded and slowed the storyline down. Plus, he spends all of Allegiant being broken down and we never really see him assembled back up. For a last book so manufactured most of it's 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 accomplishment in a sea of storyline development failure. This information dump is compounded by several things: 1) Everything we thought we knew about the outside is a lie and a few things we thought we understood in regards to individuals on the inside is a lie, too; 2) Tris understands nothing about the outside so things that people understand around as readers keep being off-handedly explained to her and also not clarified to her; 3) a lot of what Tris needs to figure out is science and history, and there is not the adequate background needed to help with suspension of disbelief. In Allegiant, we need to overthrow the tyranny of Jeanine Mathews 2.0/3.0. It is the same struggle. I am talking about seriously the second part is not even out yet and people rated a novel that is probably not even written yet! The careless way her death is written and revealed makes the ending look like it was purely written only for a cheap shock value.

It was so paint by numbers and insistent that it became foreseeable because Tris is definitely appropriate and in part because there's no time for nuance thanks to all the random information being thrown about and all the random things that keep happening. Now, I'm not saying for a fictional novel everything has to make perfect sense, but in this instance, it's not so much that the factions make no sense (even after most of the mumbo jumbo experimental bs Roth's concocted to compel some logic onto the system - bs I saw coming ever since Insurgent's out of nowhere ending) as much as the factions are so clearly composed the manner they are to bolster Roth's message of how stereotyping is awful that they make no sense beyond that circumstance. Four finds out that he's not necessarily divergent (um, ok?), and then he totally breaks down and promptly loses all the increase he'd executed in the initial two novels and does something stupid. The next installment of the blockbuster 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 that ending. The same as the characters in the novel, the grief wipes away any heavy philosophical mulling I might have about what occurred in the plot. Instead of trying to resolve the old conflict involving the factionless and the factions, the novel attempts to take on an entirely new conflict between the genetically pure and the damaged, making the plot unnecessarily convoluted and leaving little to no room for character growth that is appropriate. Mainly, the inorganic manner that the events are shown beat the effect this ending was looking to attain.

We usually do not accept selfishness, stupidity, pride, included in us. We want to get rid of it. It is vilified by us. And when faced with the chance to be rid of it, we'd probably require it. Even Uriah 's harm and death felt just like a plot point for Four that was ultimately entirely glossed over. While the divergent are likely too, essentially, the genetically damaged are less likely to survive. Unexpectedly, tensions are rising between the factionless and the Allegiant (the group who desires to re establish the faction system) and Evelyn decides she's going to utilize the Erudite death serum to wipe out her opponents. True, I've ever been a skeptic of Veronica Roth's novels - Divergent was junk dressed up as a dystopian, Insurgent pretty much failed at everything except piling on the bullshit - but, as I predicted in my Insurgent review, there was only something about Roth's end game that had me interesting. She showed her change to the bravery that she initially wanted 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 correct before this part where the characters start talking about erasing someone's memories is naturally bad-unless you have good motives, obviously.

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 am supposing this was seen as ridiculous, because Allegiant takes this society and makes it an experiment. That's simply what she, as a selflessly reckless man, would do. But considering that there was a totally good person involved in this ending that needed to be redeemed (cough Caleb cough) who didn't offer to sacrifice himself to save his sister, I'm questioning the true motivation for why this finish was picked. The Divergent Series: Allegiant is set for release on March 10th in the UK and March 18th in the States, using a cast that 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. Part of me understands the point is the fact that Four is not perfect; he has four anxieties, but those four anxieties are so much larger and more terrifying than most people's ten or twenty (or my thousand). The American Government in Allegiant would not make two wrongs in hopes of getting a right. He began to become Cassandra Clare prose basically and that is NOT what I needed in Allegiant. I really don't realize how Roth thought this was a successful means of ending the series that explained her. EDIT (7/11/13): I did read the author's website post, although the end is far from being the worst thing about that book. Essentially, I only liked two things - Tris and Caleb's relationship, as well as the ballsy finishing (for like five seconds).

Here's the matter, Divergent as a chain is built around one very simple, very clear proposition: we should all be treated as individuals rather than stereotyped into some faction, Dauntless or Erudite or Candor (except Roth's doing the stereotyping anyway, like what's up with just the Erudite wearing glasses?). Cue the forced mental and dramatic finish as we're compelled to read Four's terrible reaction to her passing, where readers drown in a pool of the feels. I had a few problems with it (chiefly that it spelled out a bit too much for the reader, lacked finesse with the handling of themes, and was sometimes fairly predictable) but the character development was breathless, the plot was heart-thumping and since it's a young adult novel, I think Veronica Roth did a pretty darn decent job:)Most readers are going to adore it. True, I've always been a skeptic of Veronica Roth's books - Divergent was junk dressed up as a dystopian, Insurgent except piling on the bullshit, failed at everything - but, as I predicted within my Insurgent revi Clearly, I just don't get it. I don't have any issue with bittersweet ends, happy endings, unhappy endings, as well as open finishes AS LONG AS THE FINISHING MAKES SENSE WITH ALL THE BODY OF THE JOB. Allegiant was certainly the ultimate book of a ballyhoo-copter of a string that left millions of subscribers invested. Now lem me clarify: if this convoluted storyline really made sense and did not leave me needing to go back to the ignorant but at least interesting concept of the factions, then I wouldn't be as frustrated as I am. Not almost. When folks asked me what my favorite novel was I 'd proudly say Divergent and I am uncertain what to answer anymore.