Allegiant by Veronica Roth

Allegiant by Veronica Roth

Last book of the Divergent Trilogy

Cover rating: 4 out of 5

Writing style: 4 out of 5

Story: 4 out of 5

Overall: 4 out of 5

   This book haunted me for days. It was a good read of course but I don't know if this book really concluded the series. Yes, it did answer a lot of questions. Yes, it weaved some parts of the book. But it's kinda not good enough for me or something? There were parts that were completely unnecessary. Nonetheless, I loved the book and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. This is the last book in the series and highly recommend this series if you're more into a dystopian kind of book! The world Veronica Roth created is just plainly awesome; I have no words to describe how much creative she is to make such world. I never thought that the plot twists would literally change my point of view in reading this book. The characters became a part of me and I am so attached with the characters. Veronica built a world that is beyond imaginable. Even though I’m kinda having mixed feelings about this book, overall I had to say that I could reread the series over and over again and still cry at the ending. I swear I would. Anyway, if you haven't read Divergent, Insurgent and this book, Allegiant then you probably would want to leave this book talk now hahaha! But I really really recommend this book for you guys to read! 

   Okaaay, hi! So if you're reading this then you've probably read the book, and maybe your eyes are still bloodshot from finishing Allegiant. I've read this book last week and my feelings are still raw from what happened. But I don't want to talk about THAT part, I'll start off by saying how unimpressed I was with the story of this book. I hope that we do have the same feelings because I've watched some book reviews about Allegiant on Youtube and they were disappointed as well. There are just too many things that is going on with the book that it made me kinda hard to catch up with what is going on. Like the Allegiant, the factionless, the Bureau, the GPs and GDs and the thing going on with Tris and Tobias. It’s just too much okay. Plus, there's too many rebellion in this book I don't even know why.

    I was so confused, okay that can be an understatement or an overstatement to describe what I felt throughout my experience in reading this book. It just confused the hell out of me. I don’t know if Evelyn is one of the antagonist, or Marcus or the GPs or the GDs, I feel like everyone is the bad guy in the story. I don’t know which side I’m supposed to be in. It started off with the factionless and how they were already in the Amity compound. Maybe it’s just me and my weak memory but the things that happened on Insurgent were a little bit blurry and I can’t remember the factionless taking over the Amity compound, because the last thing that I remembered from Insurgent is the video of Edith Prior. I was looking for Edith Prior the whole time only to figure out that she’s already dead, and what’s worse is that she was like a great great great grandmother of Tris or something. I don’t get why Veronica Roth had to put that in the story, it could’ve been someone from the Bureau who is still alive, David to be exact. But still, I know that the reason why Edith Prior was the one who was in the video is because to show that Tris is like part of whatever rebellion is going on with Edith Prior. A good plot twist to be honest. I kinda predicted that Tris’ mom is part of the Bureau but I never thought that she’s from the fringe! Anyway, so the thing with the factionless part of the story is that I’m not really amused with it. I don’t know maybe it’s just me. But my favorite scene on that part would probably Tris' and Tobias' first date!!! They're so cute *tears please stop*.  And when the Allegiant showed up, I didn't actually thought that Allegiant was a group of people. Hahaha okay I feel so stupid. But I thought it was another thing connected to their genetics or something. I don't know why Allegiant was the title of the book because the group barely showed up in the book. I'M JUST SOOOOO CONFUSED. I don't know how to start talking about the unnecessary things without saying things against the book because I SERIOUSLY LOVED IT, I hope you don't get me wrong. 

   

   Okay so maybe Allegiant helped Tris, Tobias ,Christina, Caleb and etc. go out of the compound of the factionless. Maybe Allegiant helped out main characters meet the Bureau. But, I don't think that Allegiant themselves have a purpose in this book, like seriously. I can't understand why they'd have to be there in the first place. Can someone clear this up for me? I don't even think that Allegiant is aware of the Bureau. It's like a coincedence you know? The main characters meeting Amar and Zoe is all an accident. What if they they haven't met each other? Where are they really going? I was not expecting the Bureau to be like that, to be that civilized, to be that well-developed, to be like US. I honestly wasn't expecting that. People already guessed about the Divergent being "genetically pure", I feel so dumb not to realize that before, but HOW CAN PEOPLE MAKE UP THAT KIND OF HYPOTHESIS? Anyway, since we're talking about the GPs and GDs, can I just say how I hated Tobias making a huge deal out of it? I know that it's hard to know that you’re damaged, but it’s not like you’re literally damaged! It’s not about that at all. I know that GPs are being such douchebags for treating GDs like they’re mentally retarded or something but for Tobias to act as if he is actually damaged is pretty stupid. Everyone looks up to him despite him being a GP. And he’s like a GP and a GD! He can resist serums and whatnot, he’s close to being Divergent, can’t he be happy about that? That he is special and no one can control him? His way of thinking makes me go cray cray. I hated how he didn’t listen to Tris, I hated how he thinks that Tris’ judgment is blurred because she’s jealous. I hate how he betrayed everyone because he thinks he’s damaged (but of course I love Tobias okaaay). 

    Since I already knew that Tris is going to die in this book, seeing Tobias excited to see her broke my heart to small emotional pieces like, I’m not even joking. I was crying and crying and crying until I can’t breathe anymore. Knowing the major spoiler made my tears run down on my face earlier than I expected. When she was looking at Caleb and realizing that she can go through the death serum, and that she loves Caleb, and when she started reminiscing about them, I started crying like crazy. And when she said to Caleb that “If I don’t survive tell Tobias I didn’t want to leave him.” I. WENT. FRENZY. I was screaming “NOOOO TRIS DON’T GO IN THERE PLEASE!!!!” I was so mad about what’s happening. The end of each chapter makes my mind go all over the place-- with Tobias finally reuniting with his mother and Tris plunging to her death. There are certain things in life that I can’t handle simultaneously and this is one of those things. When Tris died, I don’t know what to do anymore. I’m so emotionally attached to Tris. I’ve been with her for 3 books!! THREE BOOKS! I started to love her and understand her and see things in her perspective. Some say that she wasted her life with what she did but I don’t believe that because she saved the Bureau. She was the one that the peace was brought back into the world. She was the perfect definition of being dauntless. She’ll always be someone that I’ll look up to.

Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins

Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins

1st book to the Anna and the French Kiss series

Cover rating: 5 out of 5

Writing style: 5 out of 5

Story: 5 out of 5

Overall: 5 out of 5

          Hello! I'm sorry if I haven't posted in a while it's because I've been skipping from one book to another lately. With my brain that can't make decisions right, I kept on starting on reading books that I don't want to finish-- not in a bad way-- I don't want to finish the books because I don't want the book to stop. I've started reading Allegiant and Gone, but apparently stopped reading them just because this book got me so interested so I picked it up yesterday and read it all throughout the day. I kept on stopping myself from reading it in a day but the story is so good that I don't ever want to stop. I feel like I've attached myself too much from this book that I want to read the next book (which I now have, I'll be posting my book haul soon once some of the books I've ordered already are in the mail!) but of course, there's two sides to that: one side is that I don't want to finish the next book just because the last book will come out somewhere this year and the other side is I want to start reading the second book already because I want to feel giddy and happy and in love again. I’m afraid to make a book review about Anna and the French Kiss because I might not explain everything well and through enough to give the book some justice that it deserves. THIS BOOK IS AMAZING! I honestly cannot fathom how can someone not like this book! I thought that it’ll just be another cliché story in Paris but it’s not!!! Well, maybe its a little bit cliché, however, it is somewhat different. Okay now I’m out of words. It is so good!!! I swear that you wouldn’t be able to put it down so a little warning if you’re going to read this book: Make sure you have the entire day to indulge yourself with pure happiness, sweetness, cuteness and loneliness + you’ll pretty much scream because of two reasons: from all the feels and for being mad at a character. So as my every post go, here’s a little synopsis about the book.

          Anna is sent to study in School of America in Paris for her senior year. Apparently, she’s not ecstatic about it, (which is completely weird because if my parents sent me to study in Paris I’ll probably flip out and cry) because things in America, specifically in Atlanta are going pretty well. She’s happy to hang out with her best friend and the cute guy at her work that she’s been crushing on is starting to feel the same way about her! So when she was already in Paris, she was pretty lonely, and cries and gets homesick and misses her life and her kind-of-almost boyfriend. But things changed when she met the most, handsome and hot and gorgeous and perfect in every way possible, St. Clair. Okay, maybe his name is weird but he’s hot so deal with it. Anyway, if you think she’s lucky to meet someone as beautiful as St. Clair, then you’re wrong because he’s taken (don’t worry this is not a spoiler, it’s actually at the back of the book!) and St. Clair ends up as her best friend. So yeah, that’s the synopsis of Anna and the French Kiss, I really hope that you’d read this book because I RECOMMEND it!!! It’s such a cute and quick read. I love this book because you’ll really see how their relationship/friendship would develop!  

          For the non-spoilery section! Okay, so I don’t know how to start this book talk since a lot of things are going on in my mind right now that I badly want to write but I’m afraid that it might not come out as I want the words to be. But anyway, let me start off my how stupid they are for not seeing that they OBVIOUSLY like each other! I mean, everyone knows about it, so you don’t have to hide it because it’s pretty obvious, you know. Who wouldn’t notice the way Anna and St. Clair look at each other? THEY’RE TOO ADORABLE AND THAT CANNOT BE LEFT UNSEEN BY ANYONE. I love how close they are with each other that they mistook love as a friendship/best friend kind of thing even though it’s far away from that! But I’d have to say that they’re friendship is too cute! Especially the part when Anna ordered by herself! HAHAHA OMG THAT PART IS MY FAVORITE!!! I literally cracked up when St. Clair shouted across the room “NOW THAT WASN’T SO TERRIBLE, WAS IT, ANNA?” Hahahaha okay that part!!!!!! That’s just too cute!!! How naïve Anna to think that the chefs doesn’t know how to speak in English in a school where Americans study! Hahahaha!! And I also like the scene after that, when Anna raised her middle finger at him and he’s just like “peace” OKAY THAT WAS THE MOST BEST FRIEND-EST THING THAT HAPPENED IN THE BOOK (or maybe not). I liked their friendship-- it’s just the laid-back, cute and happy and i-like-you-but-you’re-taken-so-you’re-just-my-bestfriend. It’s so cute that they seem to “friendzone” each other, having no idea that they like each other! How can they not feel that? Hahaha~ But I’d have to say that St. Clair and Anna are doing a great job at keeping away from the line. If I didn’t know better, I prolly would’ve thought that maybe they’re just friends who treats each other as if they’re together kind of thing. Another thing that made me laugh is when St. Clair borrowed the pen from Anna and leaned in to her just when the professeur is assigning the lab partners HAHAHA OKAY THAT’S JUST CUTE AND HILARIOUS! How St. Clair admitted to Anna at the end that he did that intentionally, that’s just sweet, okay. I knew that St. Clair liked her from the start but the fact that he doesn’t want to break up with Ellie makes my judgment blurry enough not to see that he loves her so much.

                There are some things that I hate in this book. Don’t get me wrong but it’s not about the story but it’s about the way the characters think and act. I hate the fact that St. Clair doesn’t want to break up with Ellie just because he’s afraid to be alone. I know that it’s hard to lose someone who’s been with you for the long time like they’re the only permanent thing in your life and you don’t want things to change with the way your life is going, that’s completely logical. But the thing is he’s not going to be alone! Anna has been with him all this time and he doesn’t even see that? Anna stayed with him when he needed her the most. Anna stayed with him despite the fact that she knows that they’re just going to be friends, she kept herself from falling in love with St. Clair just because she’s afraid that she’ll ruin everything (and of course, to avoid her heart to be broken). I was so annoyed when Anna and St. Clair were in the club (that moment though), everything were going so well that I’m screaming my lungs out from happiness and then the next thing I knew I was screaming my heart and lungs and my organs out when St. Clair panicked the moment he knew that Ellie’s roommate saw him and Anna “dancing”. I’m felt so sad for Anna, and pissed off at St. Clair for being such a jerk. To be honest, I was on the verge of throwing the book and also on the verge of doubting St. Clair’s role in this book. I kinda thought that he was really a jerk or something who likes to play around and mess with the feelings of the girls who like him just because he’s the most perfect creature ever. I thought he was taking advantage of what he has. I feel ashamed for doubting him, but who would’nt give second thoughts on someone who doesn’t want to break up with his girlfriend and OBVIOUSLY flirts with his “best friend”. Plus he also knew about Meredith’s feelings for him. And that moment when he left for Meredith, I WAS SO PISSED OFF LIKE YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW HOW MAD I AM. He was kissing the hell out of Anna and then the next second he’s off to chase Meredith and off to cry to his freaking girlfriend who dressed up as a “slutty” nurse on Halloween. I was like “Okay so where is the story going? Is Anna going to end up being a loner in Paris?”

 

          I also hated the part where Toph was such a huge meanie all along; he wasn’t even interested in her! The kiss meant nothing to him and now he’s all over Anna’s best friend Bridge? Has he even though about the fact that they’re best friends and he’s ruining everything? I felt somewhat betrayed too by Bridge but I don’t want to talk about her since I don’t think that her and Toph’s relationship is wrong and illegal. I mean, it’s not like Anna and Toph were together because if that’s the case then Bridge totally crossed the line. Aside from that part, everything in Anna’s stay in Atlanta was good! I loved their emails!!!! IT’S SO FREAKING ADORABLE LIKE I CAN’T EVEN! They share stories that are funny, silly and personal. They’re really the kind of best friends that are really best friends, not just for the label (okay that’s confusing but I do hope that you get my point). And you know what’s even cuter? They slept on the same bed without being so “hot” about the moment. St. Clair, you my friend, is officially a gentleman, no doubt about it, hands down! How they spent the Thanksgiving together is the cutest thing. Anna made St. Clair get out from his misery and I feel thankful for her because I was starting get all worried for St. Clair since Ellie is so dumb. St. Clair don’t obviously deserve someone like Ellie, he deserves someone like Anna! (WELL OF COURSE).  

          The ending is great. I love how she patched and weaved everything up together. I love how she didn’t leave us hanging and wondering what would happen next because it’s pretty obvious that they’re happy with each other after all they’ve been through. I love how St. Clair admitted everything to her; how he said everything he really wanted to say to her from the very beginning. I love how he stood up to his father. I love how he conquered his fear of heights just to chase Anna in Notre Dame. I love how the City of Love is the setting of the story because it perfectly fit the image and scene. I love how Anna was speechless and St. Clair was like “Will you please tell me you love me? I’m dying here.” I love how there’s another chapter after the confession and love thingy. I love everything in this book. And it’s so rare for me to not ask for more in a book’s ending. The ending is perfect, just the way it is. This book is perfect, just like Paris and Anna and St. Clair’s love story.