Title: Insurgent
Author: Veronica
Roth
Publisher: Catherine
Tegen Books (HarperCollins)
Length: 525 pages
Rating: 5/5
War looms as the factions squabble over their different ideologies.
Tris and Four must choose sides, even as enemies loom at every turn, and as
their friends keep dying with each new attack. Everyone is keeping secrets
though, ones that threatened not just to tear Tris and Four apart, but their
whole society. Through her grief and guilt, Tris must embrace her Divergence
and decide who can be trusted and who should be killed.
People dying. Tris angsting. Factions factioning. In this
much-anticipated sequel, Veronica Roth does it again. I was glued to this book-
it was just the right amount of sequel from the first book and tease for the
third book. We really get inside Tris’s head and see her guilt, grief, and
confusion as she struggles to make sense of her own identity and Divergence,
but also as she tries to figure out how to put society back together, and whether society is worth putting back together. Very much
Harry Potter book 5 level angst.
You didn’t think it was possible for Tobias/Four to improve from
Divergent. But HE DOES. He’s just as flawed as Tris, but when she gives up on
life, he’s the one holding her together. There’s really no one word to describe
how awesome he is, and he definitely makes the book that much better (especially when Tris is angsting).
And you may have seen on my review of Divergent, but even Lord
Voldemort loves these books. Here’s the Dark Lord himself, interviewingVeronica Roth.
And if you're dying to know more about the next book, here's an ambiguous interview with V-Roth. Let the countdown begin!
"I was taken out to luncheon and offered, with great ceremony, the opportunity to be an editor in the adult department. The implication, of course, was that since I had learned to publish books for children with considerable success perhaps I was now ready to move along (or up) to the adult field. I almost pushed the luncheon table into the lap of the pompous gentleman opposite me and then explained kindly that publishing children's books was what I did, that I couldn't possibly be interested in books for dead dull finished adults, and thank you very much but I had to get back to my desk to publish some more good books for bad children."