Tris completes her test and the hallucination ends, allowing a small group of people to come in and congratulate her.  Then Eric says that before she can go to the ‘welcome banquet,’ she has to be injected with a tracking device. I know I’m supposed to be wondering about the ominous tracking device, but instead…

Time for the Dauntless initiation day.  Tris says that most people in the faction are drunk from partying before it even begins.  Hm, maybe it’s just me, but I don’t really associate “drunk before noon” with “anything even remotely good.”  Especially since it’s not the first time Tris has casually mentioned the entire faction getting…

After storming off from training, Tris goes outside to mope for a while. I just have to make sure that tomorrow, when I go through my own fear landscape, I prove them wrong. Yesterday failure seemed impossible. Today I’m not sure. Once.  You failed once.  Get over your special-snowflake syndrome and find something new.  I…

Tris and Tobias (she makes the switch to the new name immediately) walk around holding hands and talking.  I’m still not buying this romance.  Maybe because I buy every other part of their relationship, and the romantic bits just seem tacked on.  Like, it’s not enough for her to be friends with this guy, or…

In the middle of the night, Christina wakes up Tris because there’s a commotion.  They run out find out that Al died at the bottom of the chasm.  It seems he’s committed suicide.  The emotional reaction to it is actually pretty well done.  For all this book’s faults, it at least does emotions fairly well. …