Review: Insurgent by Veronica Roth
Title: Insurgent
Author: Veronica Roth
Series: Divergent #2
Rating: 5 out of 5 Stars
Published May 1st by HarperTeen
Review may contain spoilers for the previous books in the series
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Just as awesome as the first book.
As you might remember, I was completely at loss for words after reading Divergent. That book was just perfect for me. I had high expectations of Insurgent, and fear that it would all blow up in my face. I’m glad it didn’t.
Insurgent begins where Divergent ended. Here is one of the only annoyance I experienced when reading the book – I had no clue who all the characters were again. It’s been months since I read book one, and I’m not that good with remembering names. There was no recapping at all. I know I will be very glad of this when I read them back to back, but since it had such a gap between reads I had troubles getting straight who was who.
But after that, oh boy. The world Tris knows is falling to pieces. Factions are split, broken up, fight from within. There are more and more Divergent showing up. And of course, in the final pages, the proverbial shit is hitting the fan.
In this book Tris and Four have some relationship troubles. They are completely logical and life-like, but I don’t want my favourite book couple to have relationship troubles. I was a bit scared Ms Roth was going to break them up – but I’m glad she found a way to make them work things out in a believable way.
Maybe this series isn’t the best series out there. Insurgent might not be the best book in the series. All I know is that I read the damn thing in two days, and that I absolutely cannot wait for the next one.
Tris’s initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction; instead, the day ended with unspeakable horrors. War now looms as conflict between the factions and their ideologies grows. And in times of war, sides must be chosen, secrets will emerge, and choices will become even more irrevocable—and even more powerful. Transformed by her own decisions but also by haunting grief and guilt, radical new discoveries, and shifting relationships, Tris must fully embrace her Divergence, even if she does not know what she may lose by doing so.
- Review: Divergent by Veronica Roth (5/5 Stars)
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