Maria

Despite the fact that I did not like the first book very much, I have to say my movie experience was better having read the book. With the Insurgent movie just around the corner I picked up this one and gave it an honest try. I really did, but as much as I like movie screen Tris, book Tris - especially in Insurgent - is too neurotic for my taste. I am still not sure how I feel about her guilt tripping about Will so much. On one hand I know that I have become desensitized to violence, so if I think about it killing a person is a big deal. Especially when he was someone your friend was in love with. But on the other hand - Tris' parents died. Both of them. I would expect that to be a bigger shock to her mental state that killing a person. I feel like that tok a backseat to her guilt over killing Will, which I dont think was right.

The plot I found really good. Even though I was kind og spoiled on this book I still did not see some thing coming or how other things fit together. And despite everything I did like Tris' character development in this book. We got to see her as a Divergent and how the different faction that she has aptitude for played out.

This book. Oh man, this book. To quote Mirren - there is no word in Scrabble to describe how I feel right now.

It is best to know as little as possible going into this book, so I will keep my review short. All you need to know is: Read. This. Book. It is pretty short, but every single word has a purpose. I will bet my money that you have to look long and hard to find a sentence that does not ass drastically to the awesomeness of the book.

Read it. Just read it.

Couldn't finish it. I think this book proved to me that I don't like travel in books, especially when every detail of a city is described to me. I just don't care about pages and pages of Mexican markets or Italian country sides while the main character is depressed. Just not for me.

A good book if you want to remember what it was like to be a teen who is trying to figure out life.

3.5 stars.

A bit slow. Too much focus on unnecessary details.