Insurgent

The first time I read this, I was reading to throw the book until the last two pages. Seriously, two pages and then I was appeased. Veronica Roth… you….

Girl… I almost had a freaking heart attack.

So,

What I Loved!

The beginning with all of the cutesy and agreeing just made my heart melt!

The action, as always was well described, very detailed and easy to follow, I also loved the fact that (SPOILER) Tris struggled with guns after Will.

(SPOILER) Their time with the Candor. It was irritating (but that was the point I’m fairly sure) and the (SPOILER) truth serum was fantastic! That was probably one of my favorite parts.

Tris never backs down from what she believes in. She risks her relationship with Tobias (a difficult decision because…

look at him! :D)

But no seriously, I love Tobias and Tris as characters and as a couple. They would work well together if they would get over their stubbornness, which maybe they will do in Allegiant?

The science behind Divergence was pretty cool. And the debate between is personality wholly anatomical/can our behavior be determined based on the makeup of our brains?… Interesting…

What I HATED!

That it followed my Archetypal Bitch’s journey. Tris is so wonderfully different I was really hoping she and Tobias would skip the secrets/protecting each other/sneaking around each other phase of my archetype theory… but alas. (SPOILER) they argue through the whole goddamned thing! Can we have no happiness? Some of the arguments were ridiculously stupid and others I felt were definitely necessary. 

The fact that Roth waited until the VERY fucking end to let them make nice. Well… that was her style and her decision but as a reader UUUUGHHH!!!!

The scene (SPOILER) where Tris has to go through a simulation to get to Jeanine’s office… Why not just kill an intruder? Why allow them to go through a simulation to get there? Is she arrogant enough to believe that whether a person is Divergent or not that they will not survive? That to me is “Illogical” to use the term the Erudite love so much. It doesn’t make sense to me, I think it’d make more sense for her to either be shot, poisoned, driven mad, or for the office to be unguarded or maybe just guarded by the Dauntless drones. I understand the emotional impact of the simulation to me it’s just… “Illogical.”

Overall I tore through this book in a matter of 3 days and now I’m dying for the third and final installment! 

<3 The Reviewer