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School Library Journal
Reviewed on June 1, 2012 | Grades 5-up
Gr 9 Up—Insurgent continues Roth's dystopian cycle that began with Divergent (HarperCollins, 2011), and the beginning of the story will be confusing to those who have not read the previous book. As the novel opens, the protagonists are undergoing interrogation via truth serum, thus revealing the major events only sketchily alluded to before. This backstory keeps readers disengaged for too long. Roth's saga has at its center the division of humanity into factions ba...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2012
After uncovering a plot that shatters their "faction"-based society, Tris and Tobias are on the run. Now their survival depe...Log In or Sign Up to Read More