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A review by atnea
Insurgent by Veronica Roth
2.0
Edit. 04/27/2014
I had such high hopes for this book. In Divergent, she gave us this cliffhanger about what's going to happen in Tris' worlds. And I had so much questions about it. And all I was expecting was to get some of those answers and some more action packed scenes and so much more than Divergent! Divergent gave so much potential to Insurgent. I seriously thought Insurgent was going to blew my mind more than Divergent did. But it didn't. It did the complete opposite.
I'm going to try not to spoil anybody, but give some light examples to explain why I thought Insurgent was terrible.
Starting with the fact that the first two thirds of the book were horrible. I literally had a hard time reading this, and instead of reading it in one sitting like I did with Divergent, it took me a while to get trough this. Every time I tried reading something would happen in the story that would literally persuade me to put it down. It was just so boring and horrible. And I didn't get my answers like I wanted, nor did I get my action packed scenes until the last third of the book. But I was already so annoyed with the plot that the action packed scenes made me roll my eyes. I was sitting there like "If you hadn't done this, you wouldn't have to be running for your life again".
I also felt like somehow Veronica Roth's style decreased in quality. As in, I felt like the book was written by somebody else, completely different from what my perception of Veronica's style was.
Then there's the characters. Oh. My. God. What the literal fuck. I completely hate Tris in this book. She passed to be this awesome character to this stupid bitch that I completely dislike. She was so useless and did this things that I didn't understand why. I mean, I can understand a character that does something, even thought I don't like that decision, but the reason makes sense. As in the context of who the character is, it makes sense. With Tris I didn't feel that. It was completely unnecessary.
The rest of the characters where ok, I loved Uriah and Lynn, they were good characters. With Christina I still don't like her and she also made some things that didn't make sense as well.
Then we have the plot, which felt kind of surrealistic to me. It didn't make sense to me at times. Why would this thing happen? And how did this happen? It made no sense!
I must admit that that last third of the book was pretty good, even though I was completely annoyed with the reasons of why this things where happening. I did got some of the answers I was expecting, like how does Amity, Candor or Erudite work. But it wasn't enough. I still got so much questions.
In the end, I tried to read this book again, and as you can see it took me forever. I did it with the purpose of liking the book a little bit more by catching some details I may have lost in the blindness of my anger against this book. But it only made me get angrier. And I got so mad for something that happened at the end, not going to tell you, but it just made me loose it. I can understand why she did it, though. This one did make sense in some aspects, but the selfish me really didn't want it to happen.
As it is, after I read Divergent I was expecting more from this book, but Veronica Roth was not able to give it to me. I read this the first time way before Allegiant came out, so I had to just sit there with my anger and dissapointment for this book until Allegiant came out.
If you're the kind of person who can pass trough a book without noticing the small little things that made me angry, then, go ahead and read it. It's pretty entertaining once you pass the first two thirds.
This book was definitely not for me.
If you want to read my review of Divergent
If you want to read my review of Allegiant
If you want to read my review of The Transfer
If you want to read my review of Free Four
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That's right bitches! I finished Insurgent! I will be reviewing this once I finish Allegiant (I'm starting now) and then I'll give you the reviews of all three books.
I had such high hopes for this book. In Divergent, she gave us this cliffhanger about what's going to happen in Tris' worlds. And I had so much questions about it. And all I was expecting was to get some of those answers and some more action packed scenes and so much more than Divergent! Divergent gave so much potential to Insurgent. I seriously thought Insurgent was going to blew my mind more than Divergent did. But it didn't. It did the complete opposite.
I'm going to try not to spoil anybody, but give some light examples to explain why I thought Insurgent was terrible.
Starting with the fact that the first two thirds of the book were horrible. I literally had a hard time reading this, and instead of reading it in one sitting like I did with Divergent, it took me a while to get trough this. Every time I tried reading something would happen in the story that would literally persuade me to put it down. It was just so boring and horrible. And I didn't get my answers like I wanted, nor did I get my action packed scenes until the last third of the book. But I was already so annoyed with the plot that the action packed scenes made me roll my eyes. I was sitting there like "If you hadn't done this, you wouldn't have to be running for your life again".
I also felt like somehow Veronica Roth's style decreased in quality. As in, I felt like the book was written by somebody else, completely different from what my perception of Veronica's style was.
Then there's the characters. Oh. My. God. What the literal fuck. I completely hate Tris in this book. She passed to be this awesome character to this stupid bitch that I completely dislike. She was so useless and did this things that I didn't understand why. I mean, I can understand a character that does something, even thought I don't like that decision, but the reason makes sense. As in the context of who the character is, it makes sense. With Tris I didn't feel that. It was completely unnecessary.
The rest of the characters where ok, I loved Uriah and Lynn, they were good characters. With Christina I still don't like her and she also made some things that didn't make sense as well.
Then we have the plot, which felt kind of surrealistic to me. It didn't make sense to me at times. Why would this thing happen? And how did this happen? It made no sense!
I must admit that that last third of the book was pretty good, even though I was completely annoyed with the reasons of why this things where happening. I did got some of the answers I was expecting, like how does Amity, Candor or Erudite work. But it wasn't enough. I still got so much questions.
In the end, I tried to read this book again, and as you can see it took me forever. I did it with the purpose of liking the book a little bit more by catching some details I may have lost in the blindness of my anger against this book. But it only made me get angrier. And I got so mad for something that happened at the end, not going to tell you, but it just made me loose it. I can understand why she did it, though. This one did make sense in some aspects, but the selfish me really didn't want it to happen.
As it is, after I read Divergent I was expecting more from this book, but Veronica Roth was not able to give it to me. I read this the first time way before Allegiant came out, so I had to just sit there with my anger and dissapointment for this book until Allegiant came out.
If you're the kind of person who can pass trough a book without noticing the small little things that made me angry, then, go ahead and read it. It's pretty entertaining once you pass the first two thirds.
This book was definitely not for me.
If you want to read my review of Divergent
If you want to read my review of Allegiant
If you want to read my review of The Transfer
If you want to read my review of Free Four
______________________________________________________________
That's right bitches! I finished Insurgent! I will be reviewing this once I finish Allegiant (I'm starting now) and then I'll give you the reviews of all three books.