Tenacious Tris and gang continue their high-stakes venture in Veronica Roth’s New York Times Best Seller Insurgent. This second book in the dystopian Divergent trilogy begins minutes after the first book ends. Danger and violence increase as Tris tries to navigate the emotional roller coaster left from the war’s first wave of destruction. Fans who crave more adventure and romance will be justly satisfied with Roth’s superb storytelling and dynamic plot. Juicy and suspenseful to the very end, Insurgent is a fantastic wild ride. 

Content Analysis:

Profanity/Language: 14 religious exclamations, 2 mild obscenities, 2 derogatory names

Violence/Gore: A few verbal threats; secondhand reports of violence recapping injuries and murders from the previous book; fantasy violence including simulations of character death; numerous incidents of violence including beatings with a belt, fistfights, gunfights and gunshot wounds; several non-detailed scenes of violent death by gunfire, stabbing, and shooting, in addition to characters seeing the bodies of those who were murdered; details of blood and gore during a stabbing, when a character yanks a tracker out of her arm and when characters break out of captivity; one brief and two extended scenes of intense violence which include warfare, shootings and stabbings.

Sex/Nudity: Numerous accounts of kissing and romance; sexual references including mention of a character’s affair and “doing her”; a few instances of touching and caressing

Mature Subject Matter:

Death of a family member, war, murder, social conflict, torture

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