BOOK REVIEW: Insurgent

Insurgent
by Veronica Roth
Series: Divergent (#2)

"One Choice Can Destroy You."

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.

Excerpt:
"People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.  You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts.  You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them."

My Review:

Insurgent picked up right where Divergent left off, on the train moving away from Dauntless headquarters with Tris still haunted by what she had done during the simulation.

The story moves deeper into the revolution, building with more characters and more layers with each chapter.  Tris and Tobias become closer but eventually their differing views on who to trust and what is right and wrong start to come between them.  Thought they fight to stay together and not let their differences overcome them, it becomes extremely difficult and at many points later in the book looks as if their relationship is doomed.

This book captured me the way the first one did.  We learn more about our characters and about Tobias's parents.  Nothing is as it seems, which isn't surprising considering the curtains Tris and Tobias began to pull back about the revolution at the end of Divergent.  You might think you have the gist of what is going on with regards to the government overthrow that Jeanine wants to occur, but you're probably wrong.  There is a huge twist at the end of the book that will leave you dying for the final installment of the trilogy.

You won't be disappointed.

I give this book a definite 5 stars.

Happy reading!