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.