Insurgent - Veronica Roth

Title: Insurgent
Author: Veronica Roth

Publisher: HarperCollins

Genre: YA, Dystopia, Sci-Fi
Pages: 525
Rating: 5 Stars



  
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.
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So I have read Divergent many times and I was absolutely in love. I didn't think it could get much better than that. But then, I finished Insurgent. After almost a year of anticipation, it was finally here. And yes it was worth the wait.

Insurgent is absolutely amazing. I could not put it down for one minute. And when I had to it was all I could think about. There was not a dull moment in this book. It kept me guessing what would happen next. The plot was just fantastic.

I had very mixed emotions about Tris throughout the entire book. But, at the end, I finally realized how everything she did was necessary, no matter how much I hated it at the time. I have to admit, I despised Tris at times because of some of the decisions she made. But, I really like how she held her own throughout the story. I was afraid that after Divergent, Tris would just cower behind Tobias and always do what he says and never leave his side. Even though at times I wished she would just stay with him, overall she really could survive on her own and she didn't need him there to protect her at all times. Tris is a really complex character and that is probably one of the things that makes this story so utterly amazing. It is very hard for an author to have me hating a character at one moment and loving her at the next but Veronica Roth definitely succeeded at doing that in this book.

I cannot describe my love for Four/Tobias. It only strengthened throughout Insurgent. Tobias shows his maturity in this book. He really loves Tris, which is obvious, but when he starts acting like a whole different person than the girl he fell in love with, he won't put up with it. Sometimes he can be a little hard-headed and set in what he believes but everyone has flaws and that only makes him more real to me. He doesn't always believe Tris on many of her beliefs. Because of this, there are many lies between them that severely damage their relationship. Neither of them are very honest with each other and that is one of the things that both bothered me and made me love the book even more.  At the time it had made me very angry. But, in the end, I am glad for their fighting because in a normal situation, maintaining a relationship within the conditions Tris and Tobias are in would be nearly impossible. Their fighting made the whole thing more realistic and believable.

As for all the deaths in this book, I cried many times. Right when I start to really like someone would turn up dead within a matter of pages. But, the deaths really show that during this war, nobody, not even my favorite characters were safe. I understand how this was necessary though. I hate those books when only really minor characters die. Some important people need to die in order for it to seem real.

There is one word that pretty much sums up this entire book and that is betrayal. Nobody is ever truthful with anyone. You never know really who to trust in this book. One moment you hate a character and the next you love them, and vice versa. Some of the characters I assumed were the most loyal, turned out to be the complete opposite. I was shocked by the betrayals in this story.

So anyways, this book is definitely on the top of my favorites list. I cannot even begin to describe my love for this book. I would recommend it obviously to those who have read Divergent and if you have not, read Divergent by Veronica Roth. You will not be disappointed!