Insurgent by Veronica Roth

          Insurgent is book 2 in the Divergent series by Veronica Roth. Divergent followed Tris as she changed factions and found friends and learned about her Divergence. Book two, Insurgent, follows Trish as she is forced to make life or death decisions and dealing with the consequences. In Insurgent, Trish must deal with the deaths of both her parents as well as shooting her friend to save her own life. She has to face the fact that everything she grew up knowing to be true and right, has just crumbled around her.

          Jeanine Mathews, leader of the Erudite, wants to rule the factions and eliminate the ones she deems useless. After Jeanine ran the simulation that forced the Dauntless to attack Abnegation, and kill innocents, the Dauntless broke in half. Those that agreed and followed Jeanine, split off and continued to fight with the Erudite for a new world. They are considered traitors of their faction.

          Those Dauntless who are loyal to their faction return to the Dauntless compound. When Dauntless split, they realized all their former leaders were either traitors or dead and are forced to appoint new leaders. Four being one of them.

          When Jeanine using simulations to bring a message to the Dauntless, telling them to deliver a Divergent or everyday two people will die, Tris feels she is forced to lie to four, promising him she won't go, but goes anyway. She feels this is the only way to safe the people she loves.

          At Erudite compound, Jeanine basically tortures Tris, putting her through simulation after simulation trying to find a serum that works on the divergent. She finds out her brother is a traitor, working with Jeanine as well and Four turns himself over to Jeanine as well. This angers and worries Trish because what was the point of her turning herself over to safe her loved ones, if her loved ones were just going to put themselves in danger as well.

         One day Jeanine grew too annoyed that no simulation serum worked on Tris that she decides to execute her and be done with it. Peter, who tried to kill her during Dauntless initiation, is working for Erudite as well and is personally in charge of transporting Tris to and from her cell for simulations. Peter escorts her to her execution. Jeanine administered the serum that would kill Tris then Peter took her body away. Only Tris can't understand why she can still see and hear everything if she's dead. Then Peter starts talking to her. He had switched out the killing serum with a paralytic to fake Tris's death.

          Peter takes Tris to Four's cell and frees him, then proceeds to lead them all to escape the Erudite compound. From here they run to the Abnegation compound where Tris finds that the Dauntless has banded together with the factionless to fight against Janine and the Erudite and Dauntless who follow her.

          This book is fast passed and full of action. I really enjoyed reading Divergent but Insurgent was even better. I gave it 5 out of 5 stars on Goodreads.