Insurgent Book Review

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.