RATE:★★
Pages:525
Author: Veronica Roth
Published: January 2012
This is the second book in the divergent series. I am not
going to do a review for divergent because all I remember is that it is was really
good and I loved it. I have just finished this book and it’s still fresh in my
mind so I will do a review on that now but will refer back divergent a couple
of times…
This is again a dystopian world story but it’s a world were
when you turn 16 you choose what faction you want to go into and there are 5
factions. The Dauntless who are fearless and wear black and protect the world
and there are the Abnegation who are selfless and believe in helping people and
being the same and all that good stuff. Then there are the Candor who cannot
lie even if it’s something bad, they just cannot lie. The last two are the
Amity who are peaceful and happy and finally there are the erudite who are the
clever ones and all they want to do is learn and gain knowledge. Ohh, forgot
about the factionless who are those that don’t belong to any faction and that
might be by choice or because they failed initiation.
In the first book, Beatrice or Tris, she likes to be called
was an abnegation and choose to be dauntless but she is actually a divergent,
which means she belongs to more than one faction.
Anyways on to the second book
Pros- I liked Peter in the end, I don’t know why but there
was something about his character that I liked and I finished the book, that is
something good about this book. Another pro is I got to learn more about the
Amity faction and Candor and I think I would choose Amity.
Con’s – Where do I start, lets start with Tris…..In the
first book I liked her, she was strong, independent and knew who she was. In
this book she was depressed, stupid and was like Bella (even though I liked Bella)
I can’t with Tris. What made it worse was that I was in her head. She over
analysed everything to the point were you didn’t care. There was one part were
she gave herself in to the Erudite because she knew Four would do it instead,
how she came to that conclusion I don’t know but she walked into her death bed
but then when she was there she wanted to leave. She couldn’t do it anymore….Then
why did you go. She just annoyed me, beyond.
Moving on to Four (Tobies) and Tris…Their relationship in
this book was let me sum it up
Kissing…………….. Arguing………Kissing……….he touched my back……..arguing………Kissing……..arguing……..he
touched my back………….arguing……………..I love you…paragraph….I love you 2.
I don’t know but it gave me nothing….absolutely nothing….I
just don’t know what else to say.
Let’s talk about Will…Yes, he was very important some reason….She
killed him and she is depressed about it for 500 pages…She keeps it a secret
from Four, why, I don’t know since she saw him kill people herself…Then there
is Christina who was with him for what two seconds and she act like they were
together for 50 years…I didn’t get her relevance at all…It was unnecessary
drama and then the girl Tris saves turns out to be Will’s sister….the drama
just adds up. Four finds out she lied and they argue….next
One thing I hated about this book was there was too much
going on to the point that anything new didn’t faze me. I feel like the author sat
down and just wrote anything without planning a plot beforehand…Less is more….Great
tip there. There were all these secrets, all these irrelevant character’s and
all these relationships and drama and deaths that just made me say Hmm, another
one bites the dust…Even with Four and his mother, more secrets and father with
beating Four….Like she was doing too much….Like reeeeeally.
Finally, the Erudite, the secret, the war…..DAH DAH DAH….
What is so special about Divergent, they can change
simulations.
That’t it….like I wanted more like they can fly,lol. But
everything was simulations, simulation and guess what more simulations. It just
bored me abit.
Moving on to the secret, that is what made me finish this
book, Marcus was like I can’t tell you, I have to show you. In the end, you think…..hmmm,
but you could have told me….very easily you could told me….The secret itself
was lame…let me find a better word. It was disappointing like the book. I
remember when I finished I read the secret and I finished the book I was like “Are
you kidding me.”
Oops, almost forgot about the baddie, I can’t even remember
her name but it start with a J, anyways J died, like really easily.. She just
got stabbed and I was like….really, she’s gone already, to be fair she a boring
bad guy but what now. The third book a new bad guy comes. Hmm, even Eric was
better than J and guess what he died too. Don’t get me wrong, I love it when
bad guys lose but do you ever wonder why voltanor lasted throughout the whole
series of harry potter… like it wouldn’t have been the same if he had died in
the first book, just saying.
Would I recommend the book??? No, I wouldn’t. Full stop.
