Wow! It has been a crazy year for me including moving my family to a new city and major surgery. I have not posted as much as I would like. However, I wish to address a wonderful novel that I recenly finished reading: Allegiant, by Veronica Roth.

Judging by the ratings and comments on Amazon, there are a lot of people who really hated this book. To some degree, I understand their sentiment. Without revealing anything regarding the ending, I get that many people were disappointed, angry even.

Still, there is a side of me that sees the novel as beautifully prosaic. I loved it far more than Insurgent, and I read the final pages with what I can only describe as a lovely sense of melancholy. As with real life, things don't always turn out good in the end. That doesn't bother me. I find it poetic!