Not because I’m mad at the author for being ‘bold and edgy’ with her decision (though, really, Veronica, bold and edgy this was not). I think that was closer to Four’s reaction, that sense of lost and not being able to comprehend.Īnd then there’s this: If I could give this book zero stars I would. Among the more reasonably phrased grievances: I didn’t cry while I was reading but after I put the book down and thought over it then the tears started to flow. Not so with Tris: she’s dead as dead can be. In both the biblical and Book of Rowling storylines, of course, the sacrifice allows the Christ figure to escape (permanent) death. There’s a reason this story is archetypal, and also a reason Roth was therefore not wrong to reach for it even if it wasn’t “original” in the strict sense. As it turns out, Roth’s a Christian convert, and a Harry Potter fan, and in both those cases there is at the climactic moment a similar decision to die for everyone’s sins. I’d like to tell you that I think this was a masterstroke of brave originality from Roth, whom I’ve previously said more or less drew her books straight from The Hunger Games, but in truth I think the sources of the choice are pretty clear.
Roth decides to kill her protagonist, “Tris,” in this last book, and thus has her sacrifice herself in a Christlike fashion to save the world. Mostly, they’re upset about the fact that there’s an important death embedded in the conclusion, which fans never like.Īnd this is the part where I warn that I’m about to spoil it, because I have to in order to discuss it. Check out Allegiant‘s Amazon page, and you find a rash of bad reviews from people who claim to be fans of the first two books. She is also undeniably being made pretty rich by this process, and just in case you are not already feeling like retrieving that old novel draft of yours from college off your hard drive, by the way, she sold the first book in this series at 21.īut it’s not all rosy in Roth’s world. She is becoming one of those people, like Stephenie Meyer or Suzanne Collins, who will be a household name, at least as far as the teenagers of America are concerned. Roth’s books are being made into films starring Shailene Woodley. Thousands of people turned out to buy the book at midnight on Monday at stores across the country. The first printing of the conclusion to Veronica Roth’s dystopian YA trilogy, Allegiant, was about two million copies.
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