Originally posted at The Wandering Fangirl.

I loved Divergent, as everyone seems to have, and was so excited for Insurgent when it finally came out. Starting out right after the events of the first book, we dive deeper into Tris’s world as she learns more about how the other factions live — including the factionless. Insurgent did a great job expanding on the universe itself, and I loved learning about the other factions and the people living there. Emotionally, Insurgent is a hard book to take; Tris has the weight of the world on her shoulders, and things with Four aren’t as perfect as we’d all like them to be. I didn’t mind the heaviness, but I would have liked a little more common sense between Tris and Four instead of the constant emotional whiplash we’re treated to.

Then there’s the huge cliffhanger at the end of the book. Just…what? I saw it coming in the last quarter of the book, but that still doesn’t make me boggle any less.

Insurgent‘s a pretty solid second book in this series, but it didn’t live up to the awesomeness of Divergent, in my eyes.