September Book #1

Book: Insurgent by Veronica Roth
Age-range: 16 and up

I have the flu or something dreadfully similar. I tell you this just in case it has somehow clouded my judgement of this book. I read it pretty much all in one sitting, with small breaks to get more Sprite to try and settle my stomach and trips to the bathroom to throw up. While I was reading it I really liked it. I was swept up in the story, there were a couple of places where I cried a little bit. But after I finished I put it down and my verdict is:

Huh.

I'm not really sure what's going on or what happened. The first book in this series was a complete and contained story. This one was just a series of events that (I hope) will all be brought to some sort of cohesion in the next book. All in all I'm kind of annoyed.

June Book #5

Book: Divergent by Veronica Roth
Age-range: 16 and up

This is a post-apocalyptic, dystopian novel about a future America where people are divided into different factions. Sounds like Hunger Games, you say? Well, not exactly.

I read this 400-plus page book in one day. It was that good. Was it perfect? No. Like Hunger Games, it was unnecessarily violent at parts. I was annoyed when the female protagonist was affronted when someone called her weak on one page and then the next page is bemoaning how weak she is. Other than a few little irksomes like that it was wonderful.

It's the first book in a trilogy, the second of which came out last month. I don't know when the third one will be out, but I'm looking forward to reading both of them soon.

Happy reading!