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S and shifting relationships Tris must fully embrace her Divergence even if she does not know what she may lose by doing so New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth's much anticipated second book of the dystopian DIVERGENT series is another intoxicating thrill ride of a story rich with hallmark twists heartbreaks romance and powerful insights about human natu People I have discovered are layers and layers of secrets Umm no honey You're thinking of something else Of the three books this book is the long neglected and likely disturbed middle child Not as fun as the first nor as smart as the third Doesn't contribute or stand out Essentially it's just there staring at us and wanting us to notice it The plot Tris Co are betrayed run to a new faction cue long description of new factionfaction life Tris Co are betrayedrun to new factionetc Literally the whole book is Tris running around of the Divergent world It's like Veronica spent too much time designing these factions and didn't want the effort to go to wastehence we get the grand tour Well I shouldn't say that's all we getwe also get gems like this “Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you I say Controlling you is” You could completely skip this novel and not miss a thing for the third Oh wait They do use the classic 'government knew of everything and manipulated every possible thing to get this exact outcome' LovelyMy favorite part When Veronica Roth assumed we were too stupid to understand the title Insurgent he says Noun A person who acts in opposition to the established authority who is not necessarily regarded as a belligerent Mind Freaking Blown YouTube | Blog | Instagram | Twitter | Snapchat mirandareads Happy Reading
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InsurgentNd 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 irrevocable and even powerful Transformed by her own decisions but also by haunting grief and guilt radical new discoverie Uh oh Why did I break my promise to myself and read this bookWas it my curiosity Well I need to be careful After all curiosity killed the cat and I'm a Leo Uh oh Now I'm afraid that this book may have made me use up a few of my allotted nine lives OO Welcome back to the senseless world of dystopian Chicago where you are only allowed to have one personality trait which apparently is determined in what seems to be an euivalent of a 5 uestion multiple choice test And this ridiculousness is presented very seriously Let's catch up shall weIf you happen to give your seat on a bus to an old lady well you must be selfless Welcome to Abnegation where you can enjoy shapeless clothes and bland foodIf you have ever wondered how stuff works and dared to ask a smart uestion welcome to the EEEEvil Educated Erudites Exclusive Establishment A set of complementary spectacles and a seat at the library are waiting for youYou frown upon lying Welcome to candid life of Candor Enjoy your lie detector tests Now there's only one answer you can give to the eternal uestion Does this make me look fat and punched in the face you will be no doubtYou are a tree hugging or people hugging hippie Amity 'nuff said You are a near suicidal borderline sociopath who loves jumping off moving trains and beat the crap out of people Heh heh You must be Brainless Dauntless Enjoy your youth because you'll die young and in true Darwin Awards fashionBut what if you happen to be a normal person with than one personality trait What if you are a tree hugging gardening loving hippie who helps old ladies cross the street while being able to truthfully recite 34 decimal digits of pi HIGH ALERT YOU ARE DIVERGENT THE HORROR YOU ARE SOMEHOW SPECIAL DANGER TO THE SOCIETY RUN AND HIDEThis how we left things in Divergent that for all its flaws was uite entertaining Now we're moving on to Insurgent where ridiculous overpowers the fun amidst nothing happeningWe start with our lovely heroine Tris recently tortured and shot in the shoulder after which she lost uite a bit of blood right away easily jumping off trains and running around like the invincible little special snowflake she is When she's not defying basic laws of human physiology she moons over her boyfriend Tobias and tries to pull the traditional YA self sacrificing for the sake of the loved one clichéPeripheral characters die left and right in this book but Tris is not even slowed down by serious physical injuries It's like she's Superman's long lost cousin And how exactly is she so badass Is it her 'extensive' Dauntless training I beg to differAfter a few weeks of haphazard training in the Dauntless compound the training that appeared to consist of teenagers pummeling each other into pulp shooting guns and throwing knives without any real instructions jumping from moving trains and never actually having time to recover from physical injuries and playing 'Capture the Flag' Tris is of course a highly trained physical menace If that's what makes you so super fit in this dystopian world the rest of them must be so deconditioned they fall over from just walking Dauntless training Left what we are expected to believe it is Right what it probably looked like the entire timeSeriously all the training happened in the previous book This one really presents Tris as an accomplished badass again after a month or so of physical training Really book Tobias apparently less than impressed with Tris's special snowflake ness spends the majority of this book pouting at her yelling at her being bossy patronizing dismissive and full of double standards In the meantime Tris spends uite a bit of time swooning over him while Nataliya spends uite a bit of time perfecting the eye rolling exercises my version of Dauntless workouts using eye muscles only And here's the worst thing in many many many many pages of this book not much of significance ever happens SeriouslyThe rest of the story the parts not about Tobias and Tris' relationship consists of contrived yet repetitive situations in this ridiculously constructed world that is completely unsustainable the way it's presented that read like a 12 year old wrote them Go to a new compound meet stupid and selfishevilplottingweak leaders engage in a confrontation with the Erudites meet those prejudiced against you watch a peripheral character die do something noble do something reckless do something selfless rinse repeat pass 'Go' collect some angst pointsMost side characters are so under developed and one sided that the idea of the world where people are okay with being defined only by a single uality almost begins to make sense except I think it's less deliberate planning than poor characterization Add to this the fact that not much actually happens in this book to meaningfully advance the plot in any way and you see how this can get juuuuust a bit frustrating And the much talked about ending I found it a ridiculous and b uite predictable I called it not that far into the book thinking about the only possible way a world so illogical as this one would ever come into being and in all honesty I watched enough of M Night Shyamalan's films to jump to the conclusion that is the Big Reveal Call me nerdy Well yeah Hey but at least we get a mention of prefrontal cortex and mirror neurons in the context of pseudo science of the Erudites here Neuroscience Made Ridiculously Simple huh If things like that are what makes the Erudite seem smart this world is screwedBy the way What did smart people ever do to Veronica Roth Erudite Evil gets annoying rather uickly Why is it that it's the brave who are awesome and all the other ualities appear vastly inferior Is it because Gryffindor in Harry Potter another universe that sorted kids by their one defining character trait housed the brave Is it because bespectacled kids the stereotypical 'smart' seem like easy targets on the playground C'mon Veronica Roth smart kids are cool oh kayCool smart people See I'm not kiddingAnyway 2 stars I feel generous since I had so much fun looking for all the Big Bang Theory images for this review I still may read the third one because apparently I enjoy torturing myself with eyeroll worthy books By the way my review of 'Divergent' is right over hereAnd my review of the final book in the series 'Allegiant' is here