I recently finished reading Insurgent by Veronica Roth. This is the second book in the Divergent series. Insurgent takes place after the war with Erudite and the other factions. Erudite is still trying to control the other factions with injections that will make them follow simulations. Almost every person can do nothing about the serum injected into them unless they are divergent, meaning that they can belong to more than one faction. The main character Trish is divergent and can not be controlled by the serum and is trying to figure out how to stop the serum from affecting other. Trish is also trying to find out what information the Erudite want. When the Erudite start using the serum to kill innocent people Trish sacrifices herself.
The most interesting part of the book for me is how the government works. People take examines and tests when they are 16 that decide which faction they belong most in. For example if you are honest you belong in Candor. This is a very interesting way of dividing people, but I think it does create a lot of conflict. If all groups share equal rule it would be hard to make decisions. I also think that some traits would be thought as weaker traits and those factions would be overruled. I would not want to live in a society divided this way.
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