One Choice Can Destroy You

Insurgent by Veronica Roth
Published: May 1, 2012 by Katherine Tegen Books
Looking back on Divergent, I remember enjoying it but don't feel a huge obsession about it. Of course rereading my review it seems it was there, but being almost a year since I read it over a day or two, it isn't that clear in my mind. At least it wasn't till I started the sequel, and got wrapped up in the world again and remembered that yes, it is worth obsessing.

Reading this at first I was a little disappointed that there couldn't be as much world building as the first. Except the more I got into it, the more I realized it's there, just more subtly. While the first book showed us Abnegation and Dauntless factions in great detail, this time we're able to see inside Amnity, Candor, and Erudite. Maybe not all at once, but piece by piece the factions come alive.

I also thought Tris and Four relationship in this was really interesting. There are so many up and downs, and its interesting to see how their relationships evolves through it. Also, normally in a book like this it feel the characters are kept apart by created circumstances. And while there is a bit of that here, since it's told from Tris' point of view, you can't always figure out exactly what to make of Four.

If I have any complaint about this (which I don't really), is how much happened in it. Looking back it almost feels like reading 3 different book with how many changes there are. And of course there's the cliffhanger, which while you saw it coming, still was shocking. To the point that as soon as it ended I was on my phone looking up information, trying to make sense of it. Thankfully, the third book, Allegiant comes out this fall so we won't have to wait long to have those questions answered!

5/5

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