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  • Insurgent: Chs 16-17

    I SHIFT MY hand back, centimeter by centimeter, so the soldier pointing a gun at me doesn’t notice. So in the last chapter Tris was so dangerous that you had to have a gun literally jammed into her neck at all times, but in this one, eh, no one’s really looking all that closely and…

  • Insurgent: Ch 15

    Tris hits the floor and realizes that she wasn’t shot with a bullet, but she was shot with something because the force of it knocked her over. Sigh. Look, bullets are not some sort of magic murder capsules that impart special ability to kill people by dint of being bullets. They are blunt objects flung…

  • Insurgent: Ch 14

    Tris sits and mopes in a corner until some other Dauntless lady named Lynn comes by to tell her to buck up because she’s giving the whole faction a bad name by sitting and moping. I like Tris’s trauma reactions, but every time she and her trauma interact with someone else, it just highlights the…

  • Insurgent: Ch 13

    Tris’s interrogation is over, and bunches of people surround her to support her and tell her it wasn’t her fault she killed Will, that it was self-defense, ect. Except Christina, who is understandably too upset to process right now. Notably missing from this scene: mention of all the other people she shot. At least a…

  • Insurgent: Ch 12

    We open with Tobias’s interrogation, and they start with a string of basic questions just to get him used to being under the serum. Unfortunately, one of those questions is “what are your parents’ names” and Tobias doesn’t want to answer that. With some difficulty he manages to ask “why” instead of lie or answer,…