READING RESPONSE: INSURGENT BY VERONICA ROTH

After finishing Veronica Roth's first book, Divergent, I began to read her second book, Insurgent. In the end of Divergent, the main character Beatrice Prior became involved in a war between the factions Dauntless, Erudite, and her former faction, Abnegation. The faction full of people desperately seeking knowledge is Erudite. Erudite developed a potion that controlled all the minds of the Dauntless, and forced them to kill innocent Abnegation, who where withholding information from the Erudite. Since Beatrice is divergent, she is immune to the potion, and she starts out on an adventure to the Erudite headquarters, in order to stop all this madness. So far I am up to a very action filled part where the other factions (such as Amity and Candor), who weren't originally involved in the war join Beatrice In her attempt to conquer the Erudite.

It is amazing how much Beatrice has matured throughout both books. In the first book, she was a shy girl from Abnegation, and now she is at the head of an extremely violent war for information. She has truly become Dauntless. When she first transferred factions, anything slightly risky terrified her, but now she willingly jumps off moving trains, or shoots a gun. I'm not sure if this change is for the better, but it certainly makes her more useful during wartime.

I predict that Beatrice will be successful in breaching the Erudite headquarters, but judging from Veronica Roth's style of writing, she will completely flip the outcome, such as the leader of Erudite knew they were coming and set up a trap.

I'm very disappointed because the author hasn't written the third book in this series yet, so when I finish this book, I will have to wait until the next one is published. The author, Veronica Roth has a very unique style of writing. She uses flashbacks from a lot of different characters, and allows the reader to enter each characters mind.

This book is amazing, it might even be better than the first book. I highly recommend it.