So, it's almost three months since I finished this book. Right now I have thing more clear about my feelings for this book.

As a Divergent sequel, it was an improvement from the last one. In general, I tend to prefer the first installment of a saga over the others. In this case, I enjoyed Insurgent a lot more than I did Divergent. So, there's some points there.

However, there are several things I didn't like about this book. If I felt that Tris was tiresome and boring in the first part, she was up to eleven in this one. Half of the event in the book were something along these lines:

Four: Tris, don't do this thing. It's dangerous and people will die.
Tris: Okay, I won't. (Five seconds later) Okay, I'm going to do it. (People die and Tris angsts over it for thirty pages).

After a few times, it got old. All her bullshit about "self-sacrifice" became really annoying after lots of people died because of her. I gather that it was to make us, the readers, like the oh-so-cool Tris because she's so willing to give up her life for... well, nothing really. So, yeah... I would've prefered her to learn something and act as an intelligent hero for once. Wasn't she supposed to be as smart as an Erudite? And the long gushings about her feelings for Four/Tobias were booooring.

Still, what saved this from being "Tris Prior's show" were her friends. I don't know why, but in several books I feel more drawn to secondary characters than to the main ones. Insurgent was one of those books. I really liked all the other characters: Shauna (poor thing!), Christina, Marlene (seriously, the worst death ever), Uriah, even Caleb (yeah, I know what he did, but I could get his motivations better than I could get Tris'). I looked forward to reading about them, and that's kind of the proof of a good character. Why Veronica Roth decided to focus in the most boring ones of the bunch, is anybody's guess.

All in all, the plot was good. I would've erased most of Tris and Tobias' relationship, but the action scenes were good and exciting. And I liked how the plot developed, from the internal conflict between the factions to something that clearly bigger than all of them. However, we got a few very predictable plot points. I always feel kind of cheated when I can guess plot points from the very beginning. And I just knew that Tobias' mother was going to show up. Maybe because Tris gave it so many turns. But, anyway, it was indeed an entertaining book and it caught me until I finished, so... I guess it was as okay as Divergent. It's the kind of book I can read and enjoy, but I'll probably won't love.