Solid sequel with a few weaknesses

How eagerly I expect the continuation of divergent! Now unfortunately I have mixed feelings. First time for action: The sets exactly one where they left off in the previous band. After the attack of the Erudite Abnegation headquarters are Tris, Tobias and a few others on the run.
(As regards the "few others". I could really no longer clearly remember who is who, and unfortunately that is not explained again Should you have the same problem, looks best in Veronica Roth's blog to offers there you a good overview.)
I had thought that after the first book, the different groups had disbanded, but that's not the case. Right at the beginning looking Tris and Tobias at the Amity refuge and later they also come to the other groups. The one hand happy because I wanted to learn about the peculiarities of the political groups like to have more, on the other hand, it has already made the story a bit confusing: The two main characters travel actually constantly from one headquarters to another, you hardly know how you going to get there and how much time passes (Tris' gunshot wound from the first volume healed at least not during the whole action).

Among the characters: I found Tris in the first part very great, but this time it is from and gone to right on my nerves. I understand that she has experienced traumatic ... and that you had to kill one of his friends to defend themselves, no one can handle easily. But in books but it is sometimes better not to realistically describe such things, because it obscures the reading pleasure, when the main character is not and will not get over some event. Sometime Tris' eternal self-reproaches were pretty exhausting, she had here and there nothing at all to do with the TAFFEN® fighter from Part 1, but has been transformed into a kind of martyr, which means one's life hardly what. I honestly do not quite understand why she so afraid to talk to others about their act, and not even want to entrust Tobias. After all, they had little choice but to act as such, and just a Dauntless should understand that.

Which leads me to Tris and Tobias as a pair: In the beginning of the book I was really excited about the two. The author really has beautifully described how they treat each other and how their relationship evolved. (Even though I was a little bit unrealistic, that it was only at innocent kiss between them.) But then came on conflicts that have much of this beautiful feeling destroyed again. And would most of these problems can be solved quite easily when Tris had not behaved so stubbornly and closed and secretive as described above ...

All in all I found the novel quite engaging, and I devoured it in a very short time. (The end for me but pretty intense and somehow confusing, but that everyone should decide for themselves.) Just to the predecessor is not enough, this book also an unfortunate approach. Nevertheless definitely worth reading - four out of five Bücherwürmchen it!