Book review: Allegiant

The book I am blogging about is Allegiant by Veronica Roth. This book is the third book in the series, with Divergent and Insurgent as its processors. Allegiant is about a group of experiments, Tris, Tobias, and some others escaping their fake lives to enter the real world, which they hardly known about. The city of Chicago seemed to be all that existed for them until they passed the gates. They realized they weren't the only ones. Tris, the main character, and the others were rescued by the Bureau of Genetic Welfares. They were the ones conducting the experiments on the different cities, like Chicago. The officials took them in and made them feel at home, but are they really there friends, or using them against their loved ones? Read on to find out more. 

This book is for someone who has patience for mysteries and drags. The book does drag a little in the middle and gets really annoying. Also, you must have the tolerance to keep up with the constant switch in narrators. The book keeps changing from the view of Tris, to the view of Tobias and it really gets annoying for me because the first two books were both in the view of Tris, but now we have the view of Tobias added in, and let me tell you, he has more drama that Tris does.

 I give this book a 4 star rating because it is good, but some of the small things like switch in narrators, dragging in the middle, and not much action decrease the rating. For me, I like the little action that was in the book, but now it’s filled with emotion and decisions to make and other garbage. I'm not the chick flick girl, but people who like the emotion might enjoy this book.

 The author, Veronica Roth, writes in a very normal, yet grasping way. Her diction is very casual, unless you’re talking to and Erudite. I think it's very casual because the people of the experiment aren't very educated to have the elevated diction. Also, she added a new experiment to the switching in narrators, which is really really really annoying to me, but others may like it. Her sentences aren't exactly in many different styles, there mostly balanced but not "fancy". Once in a while you'll find a repetion, rhetorical question, or anaphora. Also, the sentence lengths aren't too short or too long. There is a good variety of fragment lengths, but most of them are medium length. There is a lot of similes and metaphors, good use of figurative language. She also gives a lot of imagery. Roth gives good description of the setting and the characters. I was able to picture most of the book in my head, like a little movie. I think that was my favorite part, being able to visualize the whole thing in my head.

Over all, it’s a good book and I think everyone should give it a gander.

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* Write a post about vocabulary you observe in the context of your book.
The vocabulary in Allegiant is mostly casual diction with some abstract/concrete diction. There is a lot of casual diction with most of the characters because they aren't from Erudite, the intelligent faction. The Erudite however use mostly elevated diction and scientific jargon. With Tris and Tobias, there is abstract diction because they are dating. The two are in love with each other and love comes with a lot of abstract diction like love, and trust. In the book, it says "This program helps us to interpret the data in an understandable way. What you see here is a simplified depiction of a particular DNA sequence in Tris's genetic material." (557, Roth). This shows the scientific jargon of the scientists at the Bureau. In the book, it also states "I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available for me. I stay with him because i choose to, every day that i wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me." (647,Roth). This part shows the abstract diction between Tobias and Tris. The vocab really depends on who is talking and to who. 

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The WORST part of the book!

The worst part of Allegiant to me is constant switch in narrators. I know it says at the beginning of each chapter whose perspective the story is being told, but it gets really annoying constantly changing the perspective because of many reasons! First of all, the first two books, Divergent and Insurgent, were both in Tris' perspective, so we know how its going to be written and how the point of view is going to be. How she will act and say. But in Allegiant, its switching between Tobias and Tris. Tris thinks both practically and emotionally, whereas Tobias is just messed up and thinking about himself and how it will impact him and so many emotions in such a small thing! It just gets annoying constantly switching from rock hard, to a big baby. I just wish we could keep the last book in Tris' perspective like its predecessors and the leave the mini divergent series on Tobias' perspective for him, not include his perspective in the main novels. Some people may like the change because it's cool looking at things from other perspectives, but not when its the last book and there is already a steady pace. This is just my perspective so I hope no one gets offended ☺!

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I've just started the book Allegiant by Veronica Roth and it's not as good as the first two books, especially because it constantly changes the perspective of the story, from Tris to Tobias. But we're here to talk about the setting of the book. Where I am in the book, it took place from the city of Chicago, within the fences, to the outside, beyond the fences. The inner part of chicago has become rubble. Since the attack of Erudite on Abnegation and the Factionless rising to power, the city is practicly falling upon itself. The building look as if a bomb had droped on the city, the people all look like hobo's, and the streets are on the outskurts of a world war III. The roads are cracked up like eggshells and the beautiful faction headquarters are now vicitms of a robbery. The inside of Chicago has become a large ghetto.

The outside of the city is something new, something we didn't have any knowledge about. Here's a quote from the book, "the world beyond urs is full of roads and dark buildings and collapsing power lines. There is no life in it, as far a sI can see; no movement, no sound but the wind and my own footsteps." (pg. 701 elctronic version). The Chicago as we see it today is totally different from the Chicago in the book. The walls are covered with old pictures, which are melting upon themselves. The train tracks are rusty and crocked. It's as if its a desert with abandoned buildings. The outer Chicago is much better than the inner Chicago. Some of the buildings are still in tact, like the Airport hosting the Bureau of Genetic Wellfare. Also, there are cars rolling down the streets.

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