Good grief. If I wanted to observe a couple constantly alternating between telling each other they love each other and calling each other stupid, I'd go to a family gathering. Whatever charm there was in the Tobias/Tris relationship in book one is gone, and their dynamic quickly becomes a competition to see who can out-bella-swan the other person by recklessly endangering themselves. Not to mention that they demonstrate time and time again that they have absolutely zero trust in each other. It's maddening. I find myself practically yelling at the book, "You guys hate each other! Break up already!"

The relationship drama is only slightly more infuriating than the fact that the plot of this book basically consists of a lather, rinse, repeat cycle of Tris and the gang getting into trouble and being saved from it just in the nick of time. Like the first book, the most interesting part is the end. The rest is just filler.

I know this is popular. I want so badly to like it. I just....