There were good parts and bad parts to this book, which is why it is stuck right in the middle of the scale with a 2. Genetic inequality is so interesting especially for a future concept considering the advent of human genome mapping and genetic testing that we are experiencing in our time. However, Roth tries to stuff this huge concept into a book that also has to wrap up numerous other storylines and the whole thing is just lost. It might have worked if she had made this more than a trilogy, but that is not the case. (I do understand that there are books coming out about Four, but the main set of books is a trilogy). The book also leaves so much unexplained. Tris only resets a small part of the Bureau, why are the other cities accepting that Chicago now thinks that GD’s and GP’s are equal? Is this concept not rooted in the entire government? And now for the important part, Tris did not have to die. I’m not going to act like her death did not affect the rating for this book because it did. Because it was worthless. And I’m mad about it. There are certain deaths in books that cause great anguish but are worth it, or had to happen. Like Fred’s death in Harry Potter. It would have been unrealistic for the Battle of Hogwarts to have occurred without the death of a major character, so Fred had to die. But Caleb had already volunteered to die for Tris, and even if Tris had volunteered to go into the chamber, David did not have to be there. And even if David was there, she didn’t have to die. Roth had set her up as basically a superhero in all of the preceding pages of Allegiant, so why couldn’t she survive a couple gunshot wounds? Tobias’ grief wasn’t even satisfying for me either as he was only sad for approximately a day and then the book jumps forward two and a half years so Roth doesn’t have to face the difficulty of what she’s done. Overall, this was a typical YA trilogy, young love, kissing scenes described in painstaking detail, a frustrating girl who doesn’t understand romantic advances. All of which I find very compelling. So if you’re like me, just stop reading after Tobias and Tris have sex and then your life won’t be ruined by needless death.