by The WandererAuthor: Veronica Roth
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
Genre: Young Adult, Dystopian Science Fiction
Series: Divergent Book Two
Pages: 525
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(Contains spoilers for the book Divergent).
Insurgent doesn’t offer much more than its predecessor did. As a young adult book it will likely succeed in pleasing its target audience. However I just don’t see how this story finds a broader audience unless there are disproportionately large number of adults who like to reminisce about high school romances … are there?
Roth does feel slightly more polished as a writer – the number of bad metaphors are down – but there is still a lot of room for prose improvement. Gaps in logic plague the book, especially with the way the Erudite handle taking over Chicago. Withholding information that could resolve much of the problems in the story is used as a crutch to create tension. This makes for a less exciting plot, and in order to ramify this, the author resorts to an intensifying more of what was in the last book: lots of violence interspersed with awkward first romance moments. Overall this story is engaging, but it’s also just as flawed (if not more so), than the last book.
