Divergent was a fantastic book. It ended with a great cliffhanger and I really wanted to know what happened next. While this book started strong with the introduction of the hippie Amity faction, it slowly began to wither as Tris fell into depression. Tris was depressed because of everything that happened in the previous book and she dwells in it throughout the ENTIRE book. The book progresses so slowly that it feels that nothing really happens throughout the majority of it. Even when she is kidnapped and is almost killed, I found myself wishing she died because she was looking forward to it. I felt bad for Tobias and wished he just moved on because Tris was just so ungrateful for everything everyone was doing for her. 
 The book changes the way the series unfolds in that Tobias is also a narrator and it deals with the relationship Tobias has with his believed departed mother and his abusive father. They were perhaps some of the best written parts of the book. But because Tobias was not necessarily the focus, the constant whining Tris spouted dominated the story. 
 The book was clunky and annoying. Perhaps it had too much teen angst for my taste. Still the cliffhanger ending was enough to at least motivate me to complete the trilogy and just see where its all headed.