Author: Veronica Roth
Release Date: May 1st, 2012
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages: 525
Age Group: Young Adult
Source: Bought

Rating: ★★★★

One choice can transform you—or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves—and herself—while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love.
Tris's initiation day should have been marked by celebration and 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 more irrevocable—and even more powerful. Transformed by her own decisions but also by haunting grief and guilt, radical new discoveries, 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 nature.

My final thoughts on this book leave me bordered between three and a half and four stars. Does this mean that Insurgent is a bad book? Absolutely not. This is an amazing book and an amazing series.. However, I do have my reasoning as to why this book is getting a lower rating from me. Veronica is an extremely talented writer, there is no doubt about that. She knows how to keep her readers intrigued and does a great job at feeding readers information without giving to much at one time. I have mentioned before that I really enjoy when authors do this. If I get overwhelmed I am more likely to put a book down, but if the information is spread out in a decent manner that really keeps me reading for longer periods of time.

You're probably curious as to why I am giving Insurgent a lower rating though.. As I mentioned above, my conclusion in no way means this is a bad book. I love this series, and will absolutely be reading the next book. Insurgent just didn't hit me the way Divergent did.. It wasn't quite as exciting, if that makes sense. Veronica writes amazing action scenes, and there are plenty of them in Insurgent I just didn't think they were quite as epic as they were in Divergent. There isn't much of a time lapse at all from Divergent to Insurgent so you easily pick up on what happened last, if it's been awhile since you have read Divergent.

The story takes some really interesting twists. You learn a lot more about what it means for people to be Divergent, you learn more about Tris's family. And a lot of the other prominent characters that were in Divergent. I don't want to go into to much detail, because I want to keep this spoiler for for those that haven't read Divergent yet. But for those of you that have, you're really in for a treat with some of the new plot twists in Divergent.

There really aren't to many new characters in Insurgent. There are a few prominent ones, but the majority of them you have already heard about at one point or another in Divergent. It was just really interesting learning more about them, especially those that had some of the major twists surrounding them. The ending left me with quite a few questions regarding some of the characters though.

I think Veronica loves teasing us, the ending of this book is absolute torture. It's a great ending, but it leaves you with so many questions that you really want to have answered, but you are stuck waiting on the third book. Based on how things turned out at the end of this book, I am really hoping that book three will be more exciting than this one was. I feel bad giving this a lower rating, since I do really love this series and Insurgent is a extremely well written book... It just didn't feel as great as Divergent did.