Tori is killed by the Factionless, and the others escape and meet Tobias's mentor, Amar, who has long been presumed dead. Tris asks Tobias to free her brother Caleb from execution. Tris is selected for the expedition, alongside Tobias, Cara, Christina, Peter Hayes, Uriah Pedrad, and Tori Wu. Tris is invited to a meeting with the Allegiant, whose leaders, Cara and Johanna Reyes, plan to usurp Evelyn and send envoys outside the city. Several people are killed in a confrontation between faction members and the Factionless, including Evelyn's right-hand man, Edward. Tris learns from Tobias 'Four' Eaton about the rebel 'Allegiant,' who work to restore the faction system. Confessing their role in the insurgency, Beatrice 'Tris' Prior, Christina, and Cara are pardoned.

Those who fail the initiation of their particular faction are deemed Factionless and are treated as a lower class and a drain on society.Īfter the revelation about their city, Evelyn Johnson-Eaton becomes Chicago's leader, which forces all factions to live equally with the Factionless. That removes the threat of anyone exercising independent will and threatening the population's safety again by war or another human-created catastrophe. The novel was to be adapted into a two-part film, the first part, The Divergent Series: Allegiant, was released on March 18, 2016, while the second part, called Ascendant, was planned to release in June 2017 but was ultimately canceled.Ī future dystopian Chicago has a society that defines its citizens by strict conformity to their social and personality-related affiliations with five different factions. Four weeks earlier, a free electronic companion book to the trilogy titled The World of Divergent: The Path to Allegiant was released online. Following the revelations of the previous novel, they journey past the city's boundaries to discover what lies beyond.Īllegiant was published simultaneously by Katherine Tegen Books and HarperCollins Children's Books in the UK. The book is written from the perspective of both Beatrice (Tris) and Tobias (Four). It completes the Divergent trilogy that Roth started with her debut novel Divergent in 2011. Allegiant is a science fiction novel for young adults, written by the American author Veronica Roth and published by HarperCollins in October 2013.

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