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Insurgent

Insurgent (Divergent, #2)One choice can transform you—or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves—and herself—while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love.

Tris's initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction; instead, the day ended with unspeakable horrors. War now looms as conflict between the factions and their ideologies grows. And in times of war, sides must be chosen, secrets will emerge, and choices will become even more irrevocable—and even more powerful. Transformed by her own decisions but also by haunting grief and guilt, radical new discoveries, and shifting relationships, Tris must fully embrace her Divergence, even if she does not know what she may lose by doing so.

New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth's much-anticipated second book of the dystopian Divergent series is another intoxicating thrill ride of a story, rich with hallmark twists, heartbreaks, romance, and powerful insights about human nature


Language
About the same as before, I didn't really notice anything.

Violence
Erm...it kinda sorta ramped up quite a bit. There's a lot of fighting-to-kill. Not quite Mockingjay level, but pretty similar. I'm not sure how to describe it. I'll read the book again and take better note, but for now I'll just say that if you've seen Star Wars, the body count is about the same.
Oh, and there's the needles that they get hit with and Tris spends a lot of time ripping out of people. 
Oh, and there's Tris's complete inability to handle a gun, ever since she killed Will (sob, nobody should ever kill someone named Will!). 
The one scene I remember very clearly was when the Dauntless Renegades (the ones under the control of our bad guys) capture a bunch of Divergent, and Eric shoots a boy in the head (I was crying and screaming at that point.). In return, Tris stabs him with a pocket knife. Barf. More PTSD, as you can imagine.
There's quite a bit of run-round-the-corner-shoot-em-down, but not very much gory description. None at all, actually. 
Four, um...makes a calculated political move that results in him beating up his father.

Sexual Content
I hate writing these segments. They're so awkward. Here goes.
So, Four and Tris have a thing for each other, as you know. (Those of you who have read Divergent: I refuse to use the name Tobias. It just doesn't have that ring to it.)
Well, Tris has a nightmare - a really bad one. So what does she do? Does she go find her brother? No, because he's a tool-head. Okay, not her brother, so who does she go find? Four, of course. Never even occurs to her to go find someone else.
This is where it goes beyond Catching Fire. She's wearing a long shirt, she forgot to put on shorts (although, personally, I wouldn't sleep in just a shirt. jus' sayin') Four wakes up and asks what's wrong, but she won't tell him, she just climbs into bed with him. Cringe. And then start kissing. Cringe. She describes, briefly, how he hugs her, and how her shirt rides up. Cower. But before things get really really bad, he brushes her shoulder that got shot, and it kinda snaps her back into reality, and she pulls away.
Here are her exact words. "I can't be with him in that way if one of my reasons for wanting it is to distract myself from grief." So, in other words, she made the right decisions, for the wrong choices. That really bugs me. Like really really bugs me.
On the whole, if you've seen Hulk, that's about what this scene is. It's not described too in-depth, but it is still very uncomfortable.
She also says that when Four touches her, she doesn't feel bad about the way she's built.
There's a semi-cute segment that really makes you think of Catching Fire.
"Sleep," he says. "I'll fight the bad dreams off if they come to get you."
"With what?"
"My bare hands, obviously."
Tris and Four sleep near each other at other points in the novel, but never quite with each other.




Okay. This one is a bit heavier with that scene above, but that's the only thing in it in terms of sex. I didn't like that scene, and it makes me wonder a bit about the author, but aside from that, the book was even better than the first.
I screamed, I laughed, I cried, I got really really mad. In short, it had all the emotional connections that the Hunger Games didn't. I love the HG, and the HG has a better plot line, but I was more attached to the characters in this book.
I don't hesitate over the PG-13 rating, and I hope hope hope that the third one is still okay, content wise.

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