Book Review: Insurgent
Media Type: Print Book
Title: Insurgent
*Series: Divergent #2
Author: Veronica Roth
Publisher: Harper Teen
Pages: Hardcover; 525
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Source: Library
———————————————
Intended Reading Group: Young Adult
Content Screening: Violence
———————————————-
HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart
Recommended to: Fans of the series! You definitely need to have read the first to fully appreciate this one.
Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N
One choice can transform you–or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves–and herself–while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love.
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.
Tris and Tobias are back, and this time around Veronica Roth proves she isn’t just using this book as a filler for what’s to come. The story line that is crafted here is expertly done, and there is raw emotion on every single page. I think what I liked best about Insurgent as a whole was seeing Tris really come into her own. In the first book we saw a girl who was ready to break out of her shell. In this one she’s already there. Filled with guilt, anger, and a bit of confusion, Tris is a well fleshed out character. Sure, she might seem a little angst ridden some of the time, but it is this total spectrum of emotion that fuels her choices. I loved it.
