Tris and Marcus get to a hallway with two doors and decide they need to split up because they don’t have time to check both. I’m not really sure why they think it’s going to take an unfathomable amount of time to poke your head in the room and “computer? nope.” and then do the…

Tris’s group goes into the next building to look for a ladder to bridge the street between windows. Tris spends some time establishing that the robot guards are literally the worst guards ever to be set guarding anything. I mean, they’re as bad as video game characters: they have zero peripheral vision and don’t respond…

Tris and Christina go to the ‘Erudite dorms’ (because the Dauntless get individual rooms, but everyone else gets open bays?) so that the author can show us what she thinks smart people sound like. It is, of course, a senseless disaster. Anyway, around all the random dictionary spewing and babbling “look at me I’m so…

Tris walks back to the Eaton house, all in a funk after finding out that her mom picked her over this mystery information. She tries to go over her memories of the last book to see if it matches up with what Marcus said. But when I go over the memory of her voice in…

The next day, there is much domesticity. I don’t turn on the lights in the bathroom because I know they will be pale and bright, just like the lights in the Erudite compound. I shower in the dark, barely able to tell soap from conditioner, and tell myself that I will emerge new and strong,…