Another day, another teen fiction sequel to read. Insurgent is the sequel to Veronica Roth's debut novel Divergent. Riding on the wave of teen dystopic fiction, following the success of Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games, Roth does a fantastic job filling the void left behind when you finish a series and need something new to read. A read I quickly gobbled down.
In case you have not read Divergent here is a quick run down of the faction system in this series:
- Erudite: the attribute that they value most is knowledge
- Dauntless: the attribute that they value most is courage
- Abnegation: the attribute that they value most is selflessness
- Amity: the attribute that they value most is peacefulness
- Candor: the attribute that they value most is honesty
Each faction lives separately from the other and works together in their community to contribute to the society as a whole.
The sequel finds Tris trying to cope with the loss of her parents and the death of her friend Will by her own hand. Finding life as a fugitive from the Erudite takeover is not a cup of tea. Along the way Tris encounters the factionless, the group of members of society who cast aside the way of faction living or were simply unable to pass initiation into a faction, cast aside by society. The factionless are led by Four's mother Evelyn who is alive and well despite leaving the Abnegation faction under the pretense of being dead, which most of Abnegation thought to be the case. Tris also joins forces with the Amity whose peaceful nature sees them neutral in the conflict mainly between Abnegation and Erudite. She faces turmoil as she battles with what she knows to be right or siding with family, her brother Caleb being her only blood relative left. But is he really her family or are her new friends from Dauntless her real family now? Through all this we see how the ideologies of a factioned society can create dissonance.
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