What is my number one worry about Insurgent? Roth will break the world beyond repair.
I love angst. I hate tragedy. With a few minor exceptions, apparently. Like "To Go Not to Lethe," a now lost-to-us tale by mesoc that always made me cry 'cause it couldn't be fixed. I like worlds that can be awful, terrible, horrible, but with an ability left to the characters to transcend somehow.
I want Tris to make it. And I'm just not entirely sure she will without too much damage. She's tough enough to have a chance.
I just had a shocking revelation: this is the first book I don't want spoilers for. I am a serious, read-the-spoilers-and-call-it-good kind of girl. If I can't enjoy rereading a book, I won't enjoy reading it. I like spoilers. Big time. I like to read the whole book as summary first.
Peter’s right, she’s not pretty, that word is too small. She is not like the girls I used to stare at, all bend and curve and softness. She is small but strong, and her bright eyes demand attention. Looking at her is like waking up.
I suppose I'm supposed to be thrilled that it's only 6 more days to Insurgent, but I just found out that the makeup company that charged my card eighty dollars I never intended on spending isn't actually going to refund that money until next month. They had said this week. There goes being able to buy the book for a bit.
I've read where Veronica Roth says that by the end of Insurgent, Tris will not be the same girl she was at the end of Divergent. I think this is necessary, and Roth has never shirked from necessary choices. Tris can't be the same. At the end of Divergent, she had discovered her own strength and yet, she had also found her own invincibility. Her choices have been clear. Yes, she killed Will. Yes, she did not forgive Al. Yes, she let her mother die. Why? Because she could see that these choices were necessary, whether or not she could articulate the reasons.
But this is war. In Insurgent, we are promised that faction lines will cease to be the defining factor of good and evil, that those who seem good or evil will turn out to be otherwise, that reality will screw them all over as reality is wont to do, and this is something Roth has never flinched away from. I expect the Tris at the end of Insurgent to be different: she won't be a girl, but a woman. She won't be an optimist, but a realist. She won't be invincible, but she sure as anything won't be vulnerable.
