Tris is in shock from seeing someone exectued so suddenly right in front of her. Despite my rant from last chapter, I do approve, because there’s a difference between someone needing to die and being totally okay with that fact. Everyone else rambunctiously parades out of the building in a grand showing of Dauntless-ness. Tobias…

After the group picks their new leaders, an intercom comes on announcing to the whole building that Jack has decided to capitulate to all of Erudite’s demands. He sounds very defeated as he announces it. One thing Dauntless knows that Candor does not is how to fight even when fighting seems useless. Do they, though?…

Before they go on their spying mission, Tris gets handed a gun, which she still can’t even hold properly without panicking. She decides to go into a bathroom and “fix this problem in the next five minutes” by forcing her emotions down with a hammer. This fails in exactly the way that it should. I…

Tris helps clean up the lobby while suffering through some delightfully well-done bits of painful memories and mental exhaustion. Really, for everything else that’s wrong with this book, stuff like this is just excellent. If this author had a co-writer to help smooth out all the non-character problems, could probably produce a top-notch work. While…

The next day all the Candor and Dauntless gather to talk about what happened during the attack. “I have heard many reports from a variety of perspectives, and have gotten a sense for what is straightforward and what requires more investigation.” […] “What seems to me to require more investigation,” Jack says, “is the Divergent.”…