📖 Insurgent

Last book review I recommended Allegiant, the last book in Veronica Roth's Divergent trilogy. I realized that nobody had recommended Insurgent as well, so here I am doing it. Insurgent is the second book in the Divergent trilogy. It follows the story of what happened after a simulation serum took place. For context, Beatrice (Tris) Prior lives in a futuristic Chicago, where society is divided into five factions: Candor, the honest; Dauntless, the brave; Abnegation, the selfless; Amity, the peaceful; and Erudite, the intelligent. While Tris was born an Abnegation, she chose to join the Dauntless when she was 16. There she met Four, her instructor, who taught her all she needed to know in order to survive initiation and become accepted as Dauntless. Fast forward to the day Tris takes an official test to become Dauntless. She, along with the other Dauntless initiates, are injected with a serum to face their fears. Unlike the others, Tris is Divergent — meaning that she not only has traits for one faction, but has traits for three. This enables Tris to manipulate her fear landscapes. After Tris and the others pass through their fear landscapes, they are injected with a "safe serum" — a serum that helps track them if they ever become lost. (It even sounds fake.) So one night, Tris wakes up to see her friends and all the other Dauntless initiates wake up like robots. They get guns and line up on trains in a robotic movement, like someone is controlling them. Tris hurriedly pieces the puzzles together and figures out that somebody is trying to take control of them and destroy the other factions. She, along with Four (who she found out that "Tobias" was his real name), work together to discover that the Erudite were acting in collusion with the Dauntless. Together, Tobias and Tris destroy their plans — but a secret motive of the Erudite and Dauntless were to discover all Divergent people and kill them to prevent riots from spreading. Insurgent delves into what happens after all of this. It shows Tris's moral sides — multiple times, she sacrifices herself for others, and one day, as an ultimatum, Jeanine, the leader of Erudite, gives Tris two options: either she can take herself to Erudite headquarters, without telling anybody, and let the Erudite experiment on her Divergent brain, or Jeanine would take control of hidden serum traces in no-Divergent people and force them to kill themselves. I recommend this book because it is such a thriller to read. You'll be left wondering: would I choose the same things Tris did? And if I did, would I regret it?

上次书评我推荐了维罗妮卡·罗斯《分歧者》三部曲的终章《忠诚者》。后来发现似乎没人推荐过《叛乱者》,所以这次就由我来推荐。 《叛乱者》是《分歧者》三部曲的第二部。故事延续了模拟血清事件后的剧情。背景设定在未来芝加哥,社会被划分为五大派系:诚实派、无畏派、无私派、友爱派和博学派。特里斯虽生于无私派,却在十六岁时选择加入无畏派。在那里她遇见了导师四号,他传授了她通过入派仪式、成为无畏派正式成员所需的一切技能。 快进到翠丝参加无畏派正式入派测试的那天。她与其他无畏派新成员被注射了一种直面恐惧的血清。与众不同的是,翠丝是异能者——这意味着她不仅具备一个派系的特质,还拥有三个派系的特质。这使她能够操控自己的恐惧景观。 当翠丝和同伴们穿越恐惧景观后,他们被注射了"安全血清"——这种血清能在他们迷失时追踪其行踪。(听起来都像假的。)某夜,翠丝醒来时发现朋友们和其他无畏派见习生都像机器人般苏醒。他们机械地拿起枪支,排队登上列车,仿佛有人在操控着他们。翠丝迅速拼凑线索,发现有人企图操控他们并摧毁其他派系。她与四号(她得知"托比亚斯"才是他的真名)联手调查,揭露博学派正与无畏派暗中勾结。托比亚斯与翠丝联手粉碎了他们的阴谋——但博学派与无畏派的秘密动机是:找出所有异能者并将其杀害,以防止暴动蔓延。 《叛乱者》深入探讨了这一切之后发生的故事。故事展现了翠丝的道德抉择——她多次为他人牺牲自我。某日,博学派领袖吉安妮提出最后通牒:要么秘密前往博学派总部接受异能大脑实验,要么任由她操控非异能者体内隐藏的血清痕迹,迫使他们自杀。 我推荐这本书,因为它读来惊心动魄。你会不禁自问:若是我,会做出和翠丝相同的抉择吗?若真如此,是否会后悔?