SPOILER ALERT. Yeah, that’s the word. If you haven’t finished the Divergent trilogy, stop reading. Right now. Go away.
All right. Allegiant was quite possibly one of the biggest disappointments in literary history. And not because it was written poorly, because it wasn’t. It’s the way it ends that jacks it all up. In the final installment of the series, Tris reveals the secret of the city to the entire population.
The secret that got most of the Abnegation killed was the revelation that the creation of the factions in the city of Chicago was implemented in order to cure the corruption and chaos of the world outside.
The divergent, previously thought to be a problem that needed to be killed, turn out to be an indicators of strength, and a sign that city is ready to be reunited with the outside world. And so they leave. Some of them.
The rest of the book details their battle to figure out the real world outside their city. Damaged genes and pure genes are introduced, along with the war to figure out what is right and what is wrong in the suddenly much bigger world.
Being that Allegiant is the final installment of the series, most readers expect a nicely rounded ending that leaves us happy with the way the characters end up. And usually, the author will give us something that in some way pleases our overly attached minds.
Not miss Veronica Roth. She rather chooses the path of certain destruction and kills off the main character, Tris. I mean who is she trying to be, George R. R. Martin? Newsflash, this isn’t Game of Thrones.
Some people are saying that in light of the plotline being that of a dystopian future, there needs to be a martyr to save the world. But here’s the thing, a number of other key characters died. Including the parents of the main character. These deaths all molded Tris to be the heroine that she was. Which seems to be moot since she died as well.
Throughout all three books, readers get pretty heavily invested. It’s really impossible not to. Between Tris and Four and the group of initiates that Tris grows into adulthood with, the characters are a huge part of the story line, they all added some dimension to either the story or the main character, or both.
When I read the passage in which Tris dies, for not a very good reason either, I was utterly shocked. The book still had around 30 pages left, though why I wasn’t sure; it wasn’t like there could be any semblance of a happy ending now.
After so much time and emotion put into the trilogy, I was very disappointed when the chance of a good ending was thwarted before the ending even arrived. I barely got through the rest of the book, reading what I knew would be a closure that lacked just that.
Without Tris, the other characters fall apart, and their story is just a shadow of what it once was.
