"Insurgent," by Veronica Roth is my favorite book of the year! It's one of those rare books that kept me awake reading until morning; I couldn't put it down. "Insurgent" is the second book in Roth's epic series, and contained within its pages is romance, violence, comedy, and everything in between. The novel starts off where "Divergent" left off, the Abnegation faction in ruins, and panic coursing through the city. Leaving Tris and her allies to piece everything back together. In the beginning Tris, Tobias, Caleb and Marcus (leader of Abnegation) narrowly escape the confines of the city, and seek refuge in the Amity compound. There they learn that Marcus is hiding a very important piece of information, the information Jeanine attempted to commit genocide for. When Erudite (enforced with Dauntless traitors) storm Amity compound looking for Tris, and any other rebels, they come up with a plan to follow the faction (dauntless) and align with the Condor Faction. I find this part of the novel relates so much to world war two where Erudite are Nazi Communist and the other Factions are like the Democratic countries trying to stop the terror. As singular leader of the Erudite Faction, Jeanine Matthews hold all the power to every bit of information in the city. Now because of her mind control serums she also has the firepower to stop anyone from trying to disband the Faction system. Jeanine created variety of chemical serums that influence different parts of the human brain or body. With these serums she can emirs an injected person into their deepest fears, torturing them. Also Jeanine has used her newest creation to control immense numbers of innocents (those without the divergent gene) to do her dirty work. Jeanine's use of manipulation, is not all that different from Hitler's tactics to recruit new soldiers or to use them to kill hundreds of thousands of people. Over the past one hundred years since Faction system was erected, countl