![]() ![]() The unrelenting suspense piles pursuit upon betrayal upon torture upon pitched battles the violence is graphic, grisly and shockingly indiscriminate. Her romance with Tobias is achingly tender and passionate, and her friends and enemies alike display a realistic spectrum of mixed motivations and conflicted choices. While taking actions less Dauntless than recklessly suicidal, she retains her convenient knack for overhearing crucial conversations and infallibly sizing up others. The focus is firmly on the narrator Tris, who, devastated by guilt and grief, reveals new depth and vitality. Rather than ease readers back into this convoluted narrative, the book plunges the characters into immediate danger without clues to their current relationships, let alone their elaborate back stories. They have a secret to protect-one they fear could prove more catastrophic than open warfare one they will slaughter to keep hidden. But the Erudite search for "Divergents" continues relentlessly. With both the Dauntless and Abnegation factions shattered by the Erudite attack, Tris and her companions seek refuge with Amity and Candor, and even among the factionless. In this addictive sequel to the acclaimed Divergent (2011), a bleak post-apocalyptic Chicago ruled by "factions" exemplifying different personality traits collapses into all-out civil war. ![]()
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