Insurgent

Title: Insurgent
Author: Veronica Roth
Pages: 534
Rating: êêêê

This is the sequel to Divergent (read that review here). This follows the story left at the end of Divergent. Tris and Tobias stop the simulation and escape the city to an Amity safe house. They are being looked for Dauntless traitors, who enter the Amity compound for a search. They have to go on the run. Susan, Tris' friend from Abnegation, and Caleb, her brother, also leave with them. They follow an old railway track and end up at an abandoned warehouse, full of the factionless. These are the people who either failed initiation or were kicked out of their old faction. There is a huge shock when it is revealed who the leader of the factionless is.

The leader of the factionless wants to join forces with the Dauntless in order to take down the Erudite, however, Tris' is suspicious. They decide to go to Candor in order to find some help, however, when they arrive they are arrested and are believed to have created the simulation. They are given truth serum and when it is made obvious that they were trying to stop the simulation, not control it, they are set free and allowed to stay at the Candor headquarters with members of almost every faction seeking refuge. 

One night Dauntless traitors break into the headquarters and shoot people with trackers, this sends information to Erudite computers about them when they are under a simulation. They also spray a gas into the rooms which knock most people unconscious, but not the Divergent, which the Dauntless traitors were sent to find. Jeanine Matthews is determined to find a serum that puts the Divergent under a simulation that they cannot control, so she needs test subjects. However, the Dauntless Divergent fight back and the leader of the attack is captured.

The Dauntless members decide they need to leave, they leave and return to Dauntless headquarters and are determined to destroy all of the security cameras that made them leave in the first place. However, that night three Dauntless shot with a tracker are put under a simulation, and the cameras that were not destroyed allow Jeanine to control them. She tells Tris, through a girl under the simulation, that until a Divergent is delivered to Erudite headquarters members of Dauntless will be killed, she then makes each Dauntless under the simulation jump off the roof of the headquarters. Tris leaves the next night.

While in Erudite headquarters Tris is observed and experimented on and we find out what happened to her brother, Caleb, but Jeanine cannot find a serum that works on her, so she decides to execute her, little does she know that Peter, a Dauntless traitor, owes Tris a favour that saves her life. With the help of Tobias they all escape back to Abnegation. Now they need a plan to put a stop to Jeanine before she murders anyone else, and Dauntless, the factionless, Amity and Candor all combine forces.

This was just as exciting as the prequel and I really enjoyed it. There were so many difficult situations that Tris and her friends found themselves in, and each time I didn't know how they would make it out alive. I was a bit disappointed with the end though, I wanted more! It looks like there will be a third book in this series, as it is called the Divergent Triology, but I haven't seen any information about a third book. However, I have heard talk of a movie being made which will be amazing.