Reviews tagging 'War'

Insurgent by Veronica Roth

36 reviews

imyou's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War and Blood

lorraine19's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I rarely find the sequels to books better than the original, but this one I definitely do. As I said with my divergent review, I watched the movies first and enjoyed them. However, the movies didn't even touch on the psychological aspect that is the main point in this book. Ya you get to look at the other factions and the story is good, but what really makes it great is the way Tris' mental health is discussed. This is the dark, realistic stuff that makes books so good and relatable. Love the exploration of, not only a complex society, but complex characters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, War, Torture, Genocide, Murder, Gun violence, Death of parent, Death, Mental illness, Child death, and Blood

Moderate: Abandonment

lucyisabella's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and War

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

theklutzybibliophile's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Death of parent, War, Violence, and Torture

hollymileham's review

adventurous emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

good vibes but i got bored in last 200 pages.. also the film is completely different to the book like an entirely different plot
frankly not enough four for my liking in this and i found tris quite unlikeable

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, and War

Moderate: Death, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, and Grief

onmywaytobefamous's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Je ne me souvenais plus à quel point le livre était différent du film. 
Je trouve que contrairement au premier (mon préféré) les scènes sont beaucoup moins bien organisées, certaines meme inutiles, il y a énormément (trop) de personnages qui sont mal (parfois pas du tout) réutilisés… 
Tris et Tobias dans ce tome sont beaucoup moins « likable » en tant que personnes et en tant que couple. 
Par contre Christina <3 <3 
Mais ce tome était quand même génial, facile à lire en anglais et rapide. 
Par contre je l’ai trouvé extrêmement triste (pas étonnant que ce soit sur celui-là que je pleure le plus). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Gun violence, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, and War

amiamor's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, War, Death, and Gun violence

Moderate: Blood

crochetplush's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, and Gun violence

Moderate: Torture

ajdotcom's review against another edition

Personal reasons- not in the right headspace for this at all, especially (whole series spoiler)

knowing that Tris dies at the end of the trilogy

. Will maybe come back to the series eventually, but for some reason it really pulls at my heartstrings in a way I don't like.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Abandonment and War

Both of the protagonist's parents die- one right at the end of the previous book and the grief is dealt with here, and one in this book (to my recollection). Her brother also seemingly betrays her and she grieves this loss very explicitly. There are themes of not belonging throughout the series that may be triggering.

megan_j's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

My first 5 stars of the year, but I just had to! I Looooved this!!!! I just love love love tris and four so much I feel like a teenager again. It was nice that it was so different from the film as well because sometimes reading a book that’s like a play by play of a film can be boring. I did get a little bit confused with all of the characters at one point, I feel like there was nothing individual about some of them so I didn’t really feel a need to care when they died. But I loved this!! And I can’t wait for the next one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, War, Death, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, and Suicide