**Update 11/1/2013** 
 I've decided to give Allegiant 3.5 stars, but can't give more than that. I just read on Veronica's website the reason why she decided to (view spoiler)[kill off Tris at the end (hide spoiler)], but I don't agree with her choice to do that at the end of this story, and I am disappointed that she felt she had to. Now to what I liked and did not like about Allegiant, the 3rd and final book about Tris, Four and the Factions that began with a bang in Divergent. I absolutely loved Divergent. It was so different, unique and mysterious. Insurgent, the 2nd in the trilogy was good too, building up to what the factions are all about, and what is really outside of Chicago's walls. 
 Allegiant started out rather slowly. After learning about the "Allegiant", who they are and what they stand for; Tris, Tobias, Christina, and even Caleb (and others) get to leave the city, and the group learns what the factions are all about. Once they are installed and living (temporarily?) in the Bureau building, while learning about their actual reality (and I'm not going to go into detail so as not to spoil anyone), what being "Divergent" actually means, the story takes a drag. It seemed like Roth was continuously beating us over our heads with the correlation between the difference in the Divergent (genetically pure or GP) and the GD (genetically damaged) and how that compares to our own society between the "haves" and "have nots". I get it, I get it,, I don't need 100+ pages explaining that to me over and over again. 
 Roth also tells this book from alternating POV's between Tris and Tobias. However, their voices were too close to each other, it was sometimes difficult to remember who was speaking and I'd have to go back to the beginning of the chapter sometimes to figure out who's head I was in. She should have just reserved her alternate POV's for the very end - I think she would have had even stronger shock value then anyway. 
 However, once we get past Roth's ramblings about the fact that the GP are superior than the GD and that we need to start some type of revolution, yeah, once that was done, the story picked up and got very exciting. I was on the edge of my seat.. what will Tris do? What will Tobias do? Will they make decisions that affect each other? Will they stay together? What plan of action will they all decide to take? 
 Tris is known for rushing into things, not thinking them through completely and putting herself in tough positions (like almost getting killed several times). I think she really starts to think about who she is and what she wants out of life, once she realizes where she (and her mother) actually come from and why she makes the choices that she makes. Tobias, on the other hand makes some really stupid decisions that keep him out of Tris's favor for a good part of the middle section, and Tobias does have some beautiful lines though. 
 Her eyes drift to mine, and her stare carves me into a smaller man. -Tobias 
 Sometimes I still forget to look for the gentler parts of her. For so long all I saw was the strength, standing out like the wiry muscles in her arms or the black ink marking her collarbone with flight. -Tobias 
 And while these moments were at times beautiful and other heartwrenching particularly between Tris and Tobias, nothing could have prepared me for the ending. Again, as I stated earlier, I am disappointed in Ms. Roth, and think she should have made a different (and I feel better) decision. Were it not for that beautifully written Epilogue (and again, I can't go into any detail without spoiling it), I think I would have questioned my reading this book and whether or not reading the entire series was worth it! I still sometimes think about that.