Insurgent by Veronica Roth is a heart racing book with more action on every page. The action is sure to take you on a whirlwind adventure with grief, loss, love, and betrayal. The book has a strong theme about human emotions and character traits. People have many character traits. Society can't force a person to give up what they have been taught all of their life for a new way of thinking and lifestyle based on what society thinks is best. 
 The world has changed so much since Divergent, the abnegation has fallen and the Dauntless have split in half. Tris and her friends try desperately to survive in a world where no one is safe. They must survive in a world where one choice can destroy you. 
 The story takes place in a large semi-destroyed Chicago. The closer you get to the center the nicer the city is. There are destroyed skyscrapers left and right with a series of trains running through. The Abnegation sector has flat small grey buildings and roads filled with pot holes that reflect their lifestyle. The Dauntless sector is a large dark steep pit with a waterfall on one side. The dangerous area in which they live reflects the danger and adrenaline filled lifestyle. The Erudite are in a large glass building lit up at all times and full of labs and computers. The Candor section of the city is a large clean marble building of black and white. The Amity sector is a large garden full of fruits, trees, and plants. Throughout the book the mood changes drastically all depending on where the characters are in the city. In different faction compounds the aspect that the faction stands for is very prevalent. But in the Amity, Candor, and Erudite compounds dread and fear is almost always prevalent because when they are there the Erudite are ready to kill and destroy. They want to assert their dominance over all the others. 
 The book opens to a very familiar scene of Tris and Tobias on a train. Grief is hit hard right of the bat with Tris remembering her dead family and friends. She runs through the city hopping from compound to compound hiding from the Erudite and the Dauntless traitors. Siding with the Factionless and betraying them she works her best to reveal a huge secret. 
 Tris Prior is the main protagonist. Because of the Grief she feels and the actions she takes to do what's right she is a strong character. Tris is described as small, thin, and muscular. She has blonde hair and blue grey eyes. Tris spends much of the book grieving her parents, her friends, and her faction all of which she has lost. Tris was born into Abnegation and was raised to be selfless. When it comes time to choose her faction to live in she chooses Dauntless. She leaves her old Abnegation way of thought for the Dauntless way of thought. She never truly gives up her Abnegation ways and uses her "selflessness" as an excuse to go to her death. 
 Jeanine is another main character but this time the main antagonist. Jeanine does everything in her power to hunt down the divergent and find a way to control them. Jeanine also wants to control the biggest secret in the entire city. Jeanine goes to such extremes as destroying an entire faction to get a hold of that secret. Jeanine is the faction leader of the Erudite and a highly respected official in the government. Jeanine looses so much of that respect and is revealed as the evil person she is, when she takes control of an entire faction. 
 The book starts with Tris being shaken awake by Tobias and told to jump off of the train. Peter Caleb and Susan soon follow. They soon reach the Amity compound where they are allowed to stay as long as they keep the peace. When the Erudite appear looking for Tris and the others, they run to Candor for safety. The Candor are threatened by the Erudite and choose to give them the Divergent. When the Divergent refuse the Erudite attack and put everyone under a simulation to find the divergent. Tris realizes this and sets off to find and help the Divergent herself. She is then captured by the Erudite and taken to Jeanine. Tris soon escapes with Tobias and then betrays him to release a life changing secret. 
 Insurgent is a heart racing story of love and sacrifice.