Book Log 15/2016 - Veronica Roth: Insurgent - Divergent #2

[jacey]

Dystopian fiction set in a fenced-off future, post-apocalyptic Chicago where everyone is divided into factions and the worst thing imaginable is to be factionless. Tris and Four take refuge with Amity after stopping the simulation in which Dauntless soldiers killed many members of Abnegation while under the influence of a drug concocted by Erudite. All this took place in the first Divergent book. In this, the middle book of the trilogy, Tris and Four, both 'divergents' (i.e. showing talents for more than one faction) though officially still part of Dauntless discover what can happen when the factionless band together. They take the fight to Jeanine and the Erudite in order to retrieve information that Jeanine was willing to kill a whole faction to keep hidden. Note: I've seen all the movies before reading the books, but it was still well worth reading. The characters are explored in more depth and Tris and Four's relationship hits a few rocky patches which keeps up the tension.