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Review: Insurgent by Veronica Roth

 INSURGENT BY VERONICA ROTH



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“I have done bad things. I can’t take them back, and they are part of who I am.”


Tris has survived a brutal attack on her former home and family. But she has paid a terrible price. Wracked by grief and guilt, she becomes ever more reckless as she struggles to accept her new future.


Yet if Tris wants to uncover the truth about her world, she must be stronger than ever… because more shocking choices and sacrifices lie ahead.


MY THOUGHTS

  • Similar thoughts to last one

  • Hard to watch/read what Tris had to go through

  • Got part of the storyline mixed up with Mockingjay, so there were a few surprises


My thoughts on this one are very similar to Divergent, so this probably isn’t going to be the longest review. 


As always, the writing was sublime, but this story was quite different. Tris was no longer the young and innocent sixteen-year-old she was in Divergent.


“I wish we were alone” he says

“I almost always wish that”


So much had happened to her that it was almost like reading about an entirely new character. 


At times it was hard to read exactly how much her experiences had changed her, and how scarred she was. It was like reading about your friend hurting, which shows the brilliant skills of the author. 


“I’ll fight the bad dreams off if they come to get you.”

“With what?”

“My bare hands, obviously.”


As I said above I had (embarrassingly - I call myself a book nerd!) mixed up part of the storyline with the third Hunger Games book, Mockingjay. So I was expecting things that never happened and was surprised by things that did.


I also couldn’t have told you before I re-read it where Insurgent ends and Allegiant (the next book) begins, because I read them that fast the first time. 


“I am Divergent, so I am not nobody, there’s no such thing as safe”  


Which is the reason I am not moving straight on to the next book. I think I am actually going to read The Hunger Games again before that one, just to differentiate.


Well, that brings us to the end of the review. My rating for this book is slightly lower than Divergent just because of the pain it caused to read Tris’s struggles.


STATS

Rating: 90/100

Age: 13+ (Mature content, death)

Genre: Dystopian, young adult

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