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3.72 AVERAGE
3.72 AVERAGE
Now we all have to wait until October 22 for the release of Allegiant, #3 in this trilogy. Ugh.
Tris and Tobias are back and the action never stops!
The Divergent movie comes out in March 2014--make sure you read these books before watching it!
Tris and Tobias are back and the action never stops!
The Divergent movie comes out in March 2014--make sure you read these books before watching it!
adventurous
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I still love this book. The first one will always be my favorite but this one is great too!
“Come on, Insurgent,”
“What?”
“Insurgent,” he says. “Noun. A person who acts in opposition to the established authority, who is not necessarily regarded as a belligerent.” I look at Fernando. The last time I broke into a faction’s headquarters, I did it with a gun in my hand, and I left bodies behind me. I want this time to be different. I need this time to be different. “I like it,” I say.
“Insurgent. It’s perfect.”
2022, I was obsessed with the movie Divergent, and I am also really into books, so I went on to read Divergent and followed by Insurgent.
Insurgent was much more interesting than Divergent. Many things waiting to be revealed. This book introduces new characters that I am very much attached to and obsessed with. As if the heartbreak of losing characters in Divergent wasn’t enough, Veronica Roth killed my new favourite characters. Characters that would have much more amazing adventure in Allegiant, I dare wish . Characters that would be very fun side characters. But that’s about Veronica Roth, she creates amazing characters, just to end their precious, precious life. Even if it’s in the world of fantasy.
The plot of this book is quite interesting. Much more adventurous than the first book, Divergent.
And it’s very intriguing to read a book after watching the movie, I know, people might say ‘what the hell, you’re crazy! No one watches the movie before reading the book!!’ Well, i didn’t know the book existed until after I finished watching the movies. It show how the movie is really incomplete and without extra informations from the book, it really makes the movie a bit confusing. Even so, I really really love Insurgent.
As always, I love Four And Tris Relationship. Four has been protective, but he became overprotective ever since the attack simulation and Tris being Tris, is always stubborn. So the relationship was not so stable as you may have read. Both have different plans and different goals and that caused each one of them to lose their trust for each other, and with that, there will always be small fights between them. This book revealed a lot of new things I didn’t know about Tris and Four’s background. New sides of Four has also been revealed.
“Don’t be an idiot,” he says.
“An idiot?”
“You were lying. You said you wouldn’t go to Erudite, and you were lying, and going to Erudite would make you an idiot. So don’t.”
Like this for example. Reading about their small fights makes me so annoyed and makes the book draggy, that’s a part of the reason why I rated it a 4. However, these small fights adds backgrounds and extra informations to the book, to complete the story.
Besides liking Four And Tris. I really really love Uriah, Lynn, Marlene, Fernando and Christina.
Uriah:
“I’m struck, suddenly, by how handsome he is—all his features are proportionate, his eyes dark and lively, his skin bronze-brown. And he has probably always been that handsome” -Tris
Uriah has always been my comfort character although he doesn’t appear that much. He’s that side character everyone loves so much. He has always been so sweet to Tris, and I love their friendship and bond so much.
I only can hope and wish that Veronica Roth won’t end his life.
But the world is not a wish granting factory.
This book has left me speechless, with all the characters dying and all new things that was revealed while reading. This book makes me go to another world, forget about the real world. I like this book so much that it breaks my heart. I can’t wait to read Allegiant. And I hope there’s no death scenes of my favourite characters. But what do readers have in control? Nothing!! Because writers know exactly what to do to break our little hearts.
see you again some day, Insurgent.
“What?”
“Insurgent,” he says. “Noun. A person who acts in opposition to the established authority, who is not necessarily regarded as a belligerent.” I look at Fernando. The last time I broke into a faction’s headquarters, I did it with a gun in my hand, and I left bodies behind me. I want this time to be different. I need this time to be different. “I like it,” I say.
“Insurgent. It’s perfect.”
2022, I was obsessed with the movie Divergent, and I am also really into books, so I went on to read Divergent and followed by Insurgent.
Insurgent was much more interesting than Divergent. Many things waiting to be revealed. This book introduces new characters that I am very much attached to and obsessed with. As if the heartbreak of losing characters in Divergent wasn’t enough, Veronica Roth killed my new favourite characters. Characters that would have much more amazing adventure in Allegiant, I dare wish . Characters that would be very fun side characters. But that’s about Veronica Roth, she creates amazing characters, just to end their precious, precious life. Even if it’s in the world of fantasy.
The plot of this book is quite interesting. Much more adventurous than the first book, Divergent.
And it’s very intriguing to read a book after watching the movie, I know, people might say ‘what the hell, you’re crazy! No one watches the movie before reading the book!!’ Well, i didn’t know the book existed until after I finished watching the movies. It show how the movie is really incomplete and without extra informations from the book, it really makes the movie a bit confusing. Even so, I really really love Insurgent.
As always, I love Four And Tris Relationship. Four has been protective, but he became overprotective ever since the attack simulation and Tris being Tris, is always stubborn. So the relationship was not so stable as you may have read. Both have different plans and different goals and that caused each one of them to lose their trust for each other, and with that, there will always be small fights between them. This book revealed a lot of new things I didn’t know about Tris and Four’s background. New sides of Four has also been revealed.
“Don’t be an idiot,” he says.
“An idiot?”
“You were lying. You said you wouldn’t go to Erudite, and you were lying, and going to Erudite would make you an idiot. So don’t.”
Like this for example. Reading about their small fights makes me so annoyed and makes the book draggy, that’s a part of the reason why I rated it a 4. However, these small fights adds backgrounds and extra informations to the book, to complete the story.
Besides liking Four And Tris. I really really love Uriah, Lynn, Marlene, Fernando and Christina.
Uriah:
“I’m struck, suddenly, by how handsome he is—all his features are proportionate, his eyes dark and lively, his skin bronze-brown. And he has probably always been that handsome” -Tris
Uriah has always been my comfort character although he doesn’t appear that much. He’s that side character everyone loves so much. He has always been so sweet to Tris, and I love their friendship and bond so much.
I only can hope and wish that Veronica Roth won’t end his life.
But the world is not a wish granting factory.
This book has left me speechless, with all the characters dying and all new things that was revealed while reading. This book makes me go to another world, forget about the real world. I like this book so much that it breaks my heart. I can’t wait to read Allegiant. And I hope there’s no death scenes of my favourite characters. But what do readers have in control? Nothing!! Because writers know exactly what to do to break our little hearts.
see you again some day, Insurgent.
adventurous
challenging
emotional
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
challenging
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
A lot of new characters and it got a little confusing to track which faction was in which house and if they should be, and who defected from which faction,and where are we taking refuge now, and who just died? And I hated Tobias and Trice fighting or not talking to each other. Ok, I know, I'm supposed to hate it. But, yeah. I was locked in and wanted to hear more. I'll keep going on this series.
I would love to get lost ion their world! Strong characters, strong book plot and simply amazing!
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
★★★☆☆ Sequel to Popular Dystopian is Unexciting , Uninventive and Generic, if Better than Most
This review isn’t going to make me very popular. If you look back at my review of Divergent, you’ll see that a lot of the problems I had in that were also evident in the sequel. Modern post- Hunger Games teen dystopians completely lack world- building, all borrowing from the same generic world where the rich people rule and live large and oppress the poor, slummy-like citizens. Citizens rebel, citizens win. Woo. I excused the book’s lack of inventiveness because of this- the first half was pretty boring but held my attention, and the latter half was considerably better, picking up in speed, action, and character development. Being a direct sequel, Insurgent had the opportunity to completely unacknowledge anything that happened in book one and create fun/suspenseful plots. Roth didn’t do that. She’s bent on continuing the story from book one—which isn’t much. The idea of the factions is original but it doesn’t expand upon that. Roth had the ability to do something new with her characters- put them in a new setting, or a new plot completely unrelated to the first. And I would’ve bought it. Roth creates a suitable resolution in book one and would have been better off creating something new and continuing the takeover of the factions in book three. The result: a complete filler novel.
In Divergent, Beatrice Prior lives in a dystopian, futuristic Chicago where society is made up of factions. The Dauntless (brave), the Erudite (intelligent), the Amity (peaceful), the Abnegation (selflessness) and the Candor (honest). Tris is a 16 year old Abnegation girl who’s about to choose the faction she wants to spend the rest of her life in. Her aptitude test is Divergent, where she gets more than one result. It’s dangerous to be Divergent, and if she wants to stay alive she has to hide it. She chooses Dauntless, where she undergoes a rigorous initiation process that pushes her both mentally and physically. When she becomes increasingly good at training, her Divergence becomes more prominent- and to the wrong people. She becomes drawn to Four, a mysterious young training instructor seem bent on pushing Tris to her limit. She learns that there’s a plot for the Erudite to take over the other factions, first by brainwashing the Dauntless, and with the help of Four (revealed to be Tobias, an Abnegation transfer) and her family works to stop the initial control and tell the other factions. Insurgent takes place right where Divergent picks off. Tris and co. (Tobias, Tobias’ abusive father Marcus, her Erudite brother Caleb) travel around different factions trying to gain support for their mission against the Erudite. They find allies in the factionless, those banished from their factions either for disgrace or failing initiation. As the Erudite grows stronger and Tris finds out how complex life in the factionless really is, she begins to wonder if there may be more than one enemy on their hands.
Insurgent suffers from a lot of trappings that dominate the genre as well as some deficiencies on Roth’s part. For one thing, the plot is generic. There’s no action, suspense, or anything to hold the reader long enough for something substantial to occur. The book suffers from what most Hunger Games-copycat sequels do. It’s not as bad as Ally Condie’s Matched but it lacks inventiveness or real excitement. I didn’t care for any of the characters Roth added or any of the subplots- I found Tris’ and Tobias’ constant bickering to get annoying after a while. There’s no foundation for their conflict and the result just feels like a last-minute attempt at character development. Tobias’ character itself was another issue for me. He’s another addition to an endless stream of typical male leads in YA fiction, all mysterious-bad-boy-with-heart-of-gold. Admittedly, it’s better than the Edward Cullen-esque obsessive controlling boyfriend thing, but tiring nonetheless. The book is also overlong; there’s not enough plot to justify 500+ pages. It would have been better if Roth had condensed the book by not spending so much time around each of the factions as the Dauntless looked for allies. Roth also spent time trying to make her characters interesting, which wasn’t very successful. I think she should’ve made her story plot driven instead of aiming for character. This novel could have been really something, but Roth just squanders her material by playing it safe with common dystopian trappings. Some of the political intrigue held my attention but whenever things started to get remotely interesting Roth discontinued it for something more common.
It wasn’t a bad novel, but there’s nothing particularly memorable or exciting or even very interesting in this second installment. A solid, typically structured dystopian that’s above average—and nothing more. It’ll please devotees of the first book in the series, but for readers with a higher purpose in their reading it just stops short of satisfying.
Insurgent (Divergent Book #2)
By Veronica Roth
Rating: 3 out of 5 Stars
Number of Pages: 525
Published: May 2012
Publisher: HarperTeen
Recommended Reading Age: 12+
See again at jasonsbookstack.blogspot.com
This review isn’t going to make me very popular. If you look back at my review of Divergent, you’ll see that a lot of the problems I had in that were also evident in the sequel. Modern post- Hunger Games teen dystopians completely lack world- building, all borrowing from the same generic world where the rich people rule and live large and oppress the poor, slummy-like citizens. Citizens rebel, citizens win. Woo. I excused the book’s lack of inventiveness because of this- the first half was pretty boring but held my attention, and the latter half was considerably better, picking up in speed, action, and character development. Being a direct sequel, Insurgent had the opportunity to completely unacknowledge anything that happened in book one and create fun/suspenseful plots. Roth didn’t do that. She’s bent on continuing the story from book one—which isn’t much. The idea of the factions is original but it doesn’t expand upon that. Roth had the ability to do something new with her characters- put them in a new setting, or a new plot completely unrelated to the first. And I would’ve bought it. Roth creates a suitable resolution in book one and would have been better off creating something new and continuing the takeover of the factions in book three. The result: a complete filler novel.
In Divergent, Beatrice Prior lives in a dystopian, futuristic Chicago where society is made up of factions. The Dauntless (brave), the Erudite (intelligent), the Amity (peaceful), the Abnegation (selflessness) and the Candor (honest). Tris is a 16 year old Abnegation girl who’s about to choose the faction she wants to spend the rest of her life in. Her aptitude test is Divergent, where she gets more than one result. It’s dangerous to be Divergent, and if she wants to stay alive she has to hide it. She chooses Dauntless, where she undergoes a rigorous initiation process that pushes her both mentally and physically. When she becomes increasingly good at training, her Divergence becomes more prominent- and to the wrong people. She becomes drawn to Four, a mysterious young training instructor seem bent on pushing Tris to her limit. She learns that there’s a plot for the Erudite to take over the other factions, first by brainwashing the Dauntless, and with the help of Four (revealed to be Tobias, an Abnegation transfer) and her family works to stop the initial control and tell the other factions. Insurgent takes place right where Divergent picks off. Tris and co. (Tobias, Tobias’ abusive father Marcus, her Erudite brother Caleb) travel around different factions trying to gain support for their mission against the Erudite. They find allies in the factionless, those banished from their factions either for disgrace or failing initiation. As the Erudite grows stronger and Tris finds out how complex life in the factionless really is, she begins to wonder if there may be more than one enemy on their hands.
Insurgent suffers from a lot of trappings that dominate the genre as well as some deficiencies on Roth’s part. For one thing, the plot is generic. There’s no action, suspense, or anything to hold the reader long enough for something substantial to occur. The book suffers from what most Hunger Games-copycat sequels do. It’s not as bad as Ally Condie’s Matched but it lacks inventiveness or real excitement. I didn’t care for any of the characters Roth added or any of the subplots- I found Tris’ and Tobias’ constant bickering to get annoying after a while. There’s no foundation for their conflict and the result just feels like a last-minute attempt at character development. Tobias’ character itself was another issue for me. He’s another addition to an endless stream of typical male leads in YA fiction, all mysterious-bad-boy-with-heart-of-gold. Admittedly, it’s better than the Edward Cullen-esque obsessive controlling boyfriend thing, but tiring nonetheless. The book is also overlong; there’s not enough plot to justify 500+ pages. It would have been better if Roth had condensed the book by not spending so much time around each of the factions as the Dauntless looked for allies. Roth also spent time trying to make her characters interesting, which wasn’t very successful. I think she should’ve made her story plot driven instead of aiming for character. This novel could have been really something, but Roth just squanders her material by playing it safe with common dystopian trappings. Some of the political intrigue held my attention but whenever things started to get remotely interesting Roth discontinued it for something more common.
It wasn’t a bad novel, but there’s nothing particularly memorable or exciting or even very interesting in this second installment. A solid, typically structured dystopian that’s above average—and nothing more. It’ll please devotees of the first book in the series, but for readers with a higher purpose in their reading it just stops short of satisfying.
Insurgent (Divergent Book #2)
By Veronica Roth
Rating: 3 out of 5 Stars
Number of Pages: 525
Published: May 2012
Publisher: HarperTeen
Recommended Reading Age: 12+
See again at jasonsbookstack.blogspot.com