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    Divergent
    Divergent
    Divergent
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    Divergent

    Written by Veronica Roth

    Narrated by Emma Galvin

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Discover or return to the dystopian series that's captured the hearts of millions of teen and adult readers! This first in Veronica Roth's #1 New York Times bestselling Divergent series of books is the novel the inspired the major motion picture starring Shailene Woodley, Theo James, and Kate Winslet.   

    Perfect for fans of the Hunger Games and Maze Runner series, Divergent and its sequels, Insurgent and Allegiant, are the gripping story of a dystopian world transformed by courage, self-sacrifice, and love. Fans of the Divergent movie will find the book packed with just as much emotional depth and exhilarating action as the film, all told in beautiful, rich language.

    One choice can transform you. Beatrice Prior's society is divided into five factions—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). Beatrice must choose between staying with her Abnegation family and transferring factions.

    Her choice will shock her community and herself. But the newly christened Tris also has a secret, one she's determined to keep hidden, because in this world, what makes you different makes you dangerous.

    And don't miss The Fates Divide, Veronica Roth's powerful sequel to the bestselling Carve the Mark!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKatherine Tegen Books
    Release dateMay 3, 2011
    ISBN9780062067593
    Divergent
    Author

    Veronica Roth

    VERONICA ROTH is the #1 New York Times best-selling author of the Divergent series (Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant, and Four: A Divergent Collection) and the Carve the Mark duology (Carve the Mark, The Fates Divide). Divergent received the 2011 Goodreads Choice Award for Favorite Book, Publishers Weekly’s Best Book of 2011, and was the winner of the YALSA 2012 Teens’ Top Ten. The trilogy has been adapted into a blockbuster movie series starring Shailene Woodley and Theo James. Carve the Mark published in January 2017, debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list, and remained on the list for eighteen weeks. The Fates Divide, the second installment of the Carve the Mark series, also debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. Though she was born in Mount Kisco, New York, Veronica’s family moved to Hong Kong and Germany before settling in Barrington, Illinois. In elementary school, Veronica read constantly, but it wasn’t until she got a “make your own book!” kit from her mother as a gift that she thought to write anything of her own. From that time on, she knew she would write for the rest of her life, whether she was published or not. She wrote the manuscript that would become Divergent in her free time while attending Northwestern University, where she graduated magna cum laude with a degree in English Literature with Creative Writing in 2010. She is a board member of YALLFest, the biggest YA book festival in the country, and YALLWEST, its sister festival. She currently lives in Chicago with her husband and their dog, Avi, whose adorable existence is well-documented on Instagram.  

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    • 5/5
      Excellent. 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
    • 4/5
      Not bad for a chick flick. Good story telling and I liked the first person narrative.
    • 5/5
      Divergent by Veronica Roth is hands down my new favorite book. It’s a compelling story filled with drama, action, and love that you will not be able to put down the minute you start it. Beatrice, the protagonist, grows up in the Abnegation faction of the utopia. Abnegation is the faction with strict rules and the one responsible for running the government. When the Choosing Ceremony approaches Beatrice has to figure out if she belongs in Abnegation or is better off becoming a transfer in another factions such as Dauntless and become strong and tough or Candor and speak nothing but the truth or Erudite and become the smartest, or Amity and be the safe one. The moment Beatrice chose her fraction it changes her live-forever for the second time, the first being what her test results where. She learns how to fight, shoot with a gun, and conquer her worst fears. Well she is in training she falls in love with someone uninspected. As she struggles through each stage just to become on of them in her new fraction, she learns that she has to figure out how to save her family in the crunch of time. In the end she learns to be brave and to be true to who she really is.I am usually the one to read the romantic books that will melt your heart, but my close friend recommend this book and said that it is an amazing book so I just had to try it. I instantly fell in love with it. I love watching action filled TV shows so this just made a huge movie playing my head because of the descriptive details especially in the fighting scenes. The words Veronica Roth used where just carefully picked, so it made that perfect imagine. The action is written spot on. There was also a ton of drama, like any book, but it was hidden in between a lighthearted romance. The romance was always perfectly descriptive just enough to make your hart melt without being too much and overpowering the real story. This book became my favorite because it was a mix of three things I like to watch on TV and read in books. Each section had the same equal amount without overpowering, making it simply the best book I have ever read.
    • 4/5
      While there are certainly some flaws to the story, I think this book lives up to the hype surrounding it. Seriously fast paced, original and thought provoking. I think we will see quite a few great things come out of this author's pen over the years and I will be excited to read them.
    • 3/5
      I picked this up because of reviews comparing it to the Hunger Games.

      In comparison to the Hunger Games, Divergent is simultaneously more "psychological," more action-oriented -- and there's a bit of teenage sexuality, probably of the kind from the Twilight series (though I haven't read any of those).

      In the novel, society is divided into 5 factions. At 16, a young person may choose to stay with their own faction, or jump to another. The factions are structured to balance one another.

      It's clever stuff: A good book for a 3 or 4 hour flight. But I don't think I'll be reading any more in the series.
    • 2/5
      Don’t get me wrong here. I loved the plot. It had a lot of potential to be something as interesting and intriguing as The Hunger Games. The five factions was indeed interesting, and I liked how you had to choose which faction to devote to for the rest of your life. So this part was all great and dandy. Then it falls short. So, I ask why is Chicago divided into these factions? what happened? why are these factions divided into these virtues? how did it all start? what about the factionless? how many belong there? why are they outcasted like that? etc etc... the list of questions started to get longer, and longer. Then it hit me, there is NO world building in the book. There is no background information. You’re smack in the middle of a dystopia and you don’t know how the setting got there. This bugged me. Immensely. I like my background information. If it’s going to be where it will all be explained in other future novels, then that’s silly. What’s the point of the first novel then? the first novel in a series is to explain how the setting came to be. So you’re thrown in with Beatrice, who learns how to survive in the faction she chose. This part of the book wasn’t so bad, I enjoyed learning how they struggled to survive to be part of the faction. She undergoes a complete transformation, which, makes sense. Yet, this cliche where a nice meek girl who’s bored of her faction, joins another one and becomes an ultra bad girl who can fight, talk back, manages to get several tattoos and gets a complete makeover is overdone and cheesy. I tolerated this only because I somewhat liked how she managed to fight back against her bullies - so she does have a spine, and she doesn’t whine about it. Oh and let’s not GO THERE where she becomes a female version of Rambo and suddenly becomes the Girl of Steel. This could become a B movie any time now. Then Four arrives into the story. By Jeebus what is it with current YA novels where names or nicknames are just utterly ridiculous? I understand, it does make sense once it’s been revealed why he’s called that but what? so the characters just didn’t have enough creativity to make up a better nickname than bloody Four?!. I’d have to say, the characters in this book aren’t necessarily likable. I tried to like Tris, and I did at some points of the book her moments of revenge were quite satisfying. I couldn’t like Four at all because I felt he was just a cardboard character and a typical “hard but soft in the inside” personality. The romance between the two of them wasn’t working for me. They had no chemistry and it got to the point where it became supremely cheesy and almost nauseating to read both of them get all lovey dovey. It just did not work for me. I don’t know if I’m going to read further into the series. I really did like the plot. It was a good idea and had lots of potential. Yet it wasn’t executed as well as I thought. The REAL action does not start until much much later in the novel so I wonder was 500 pages really necessary for this book? The ending, was cheesy, so cheesy you could use it to make nachos. The characters weren’t so likable and the romance just did not have the chemistry required. I’d have to say, this hasn’t topped The Hunger Games, and I stress to readers out there to read Hunger Games instead of this one. It’s so much better. I can’t believe the hype over this book, then again, maybe it’s best not to believe in all the hype after all.
    • 3/5
      Let's just get right to the obvious. Divergent, which was written by Veronica Roth when she was still in college, reads, well, like a book that was written by a college student heavily influenced by Suzanne Collins's near-perfect The Hunger Games. Divergent is also a dystopian novel. It's set in a ravaged Chicago sometime in the indeterminate future, and adapts a number of devices used (once again, let's just say it: more masterfully) by Collins. The world seen by the reader is divided into factions, each one extolling what it sees as the most important human virtue: Abnegation, whose members strive for pure selflessness; Candor, where honesty is the only policy; Amity, whose motto might be "why can't we all just get along;" Erudite, which holds that knowledge is power; and Dauntless, where bravery is what it's all about.The novel opens with the annual Choosing ceremony, in which sixteen year olds, after taking aptitude tests to determine which faction they're best suited for, choose--in front of family and friends--their affiliation for life. Not a whole lot of pressure there. Beatrice, our narrator and heroine, has an anomalous test result which causes her tester so much consternation that she erases it and tells Beatrice never to reveal the result to anyone. Beatrice is a Divergent. She has no idea what this means, but it's kind of scary.At her Choosing, Beatrice chooses Dauntless. She's herded up with the other Dauntless initiates and taken to their compound, where her first test of bravery is to jump off the top of a building into the void. She does so--first in her group!--and renames herself Tris to commemorate the new person she thinks she'll become.The bulk of the novel is taken up with the training of the initiates--to fight, to shoot, to face their fears--and the inculcation of Dauntless values. There's infighting and backstabbing, and more than one child is seriously hurt along the way. Nothing in the setting, the plot, or the characters particularly sets Divergent apart from the crop of dystopian novels that have glutted the young adult market since The Hunger Games hit just three years ago. Yet the action is solid, and the characters fine, and now and then there's a glimmer of something more, a glimmer which, in the last eighty pages of this 487 page novel, sparks the hope in this reader that the next installment of the trilogy may well embrace an originality not readily apparent in this one.Divergent is recommended as a quick satisfying read for fans of The Hunger Games. Don't go into it expecting it Tris to shake your world the way that Kat did, and you'll enjoy it just fine.
    • 5/5
      great story
    • 5/5
      Best young adult book I've read since The Hunger Games-I LOVED IT!!!!!
    • 5/5
      I thoroughly enjoyed this first book in the "Divergent" trilogy. The main character reminded me of the heroine in "The Hunger Games" and the plot about a dystopian society was also in the same vein. However, that did not detract at all from my enjoyment of "Divergent" in its own right.The concept of a society divided by factions was quite captivating for me. I kept wondering where I would fit in the faction system... Am I courageous, peaceful, smart, honest, selfless?? Younger and older readers alike can see parts of themselves in the very believable characters that Roth paints. I really liked the protagonist and I am a fan of YA authors increasing the strength of the female leads of recent novels.All in all, I really loved this book. It was indeed a page turner. I stayed up late reading when I should have been sleeping (I am NOT the intended YA audience and need my beauty rest!). I will be heading to the bookstore soon to pick up the second novel in the series.
    • 5/5
      Very good
    • 5/5
      FOURTRIS ?
    • 5/5
      The book was AWSOME and it has more detail than the movie.
    • 5/5
      Honestly, it did take me a while to get into this book. I read the first five chapters but then left it there for a week or two because it just confused me about the factions and I had no idea what was actually going on. It didn't interest me much at the time but I picked it back up last night and decided to give it another go and continue reading and I'm so glad I did! Once I started, I couldn't stop.It starts out with Beatrice (now known as Tris), who is about to take an aptitude test so she can see which Faction she is most likely to belong to. After the test, she finds out that she doesn't just belong to just one Faction which makes her Divergent. The story follows Tris and her journey as she chooses a new life to lead, new friends in her midst and of course, the beautiful and incredible Four. Tris really was a great character! Everything about her was likable, which was slightly refreshing because I haven't come across a character that I enjoyed that much in a long time. She was brave, daring, courageous, caring, loyal and kind to those she loved, everything I love in a leading female role.I loved the fact that you get to choose your own Faction. I know you have to take a test to see which is most suitable, but over all, the choice really is yours. I thought it was great how they explored the different Factions and their values and how we see them shine through on the characters mentioned. The plot was original, fun and it really does get you hooked as soon as the aptitude test happens (well, that's when I was hooked).
    • 4/5
      Before I start I just want to say, that yes I may compare this book to 'The Hunger Games', and yes I know they're totally different books but the sad truth is 'THG' was my first proper experience with dystopia, therefore all novels I read from now on will be compared to it no matter how hard I try not to. Okay so enough of that, to my review...This is a dystopian novel at its best. Beatrice (Tris) lives in a world where you either conform to the acceptable behaviours of the five factions or you become factionless, living in a wild part of town, having to depend on the kindness of others to get by. Originally from Abnegation, Tris freely admits she's anything but selfless, but can she overcome her fears of the unknown and leave her family behind in order to not feel like a fraud any more.I'm finding it extremely hard to review this book without any spoilers, so just beware there may be little plot giveaways but I'll try to keep them to a minimum.Let's start off with Tris. She's got kind of a mixed personality, sometimes she's willing to stand there and save her friends from certain punishments, yet at others she's acting like a complete self-centred thug. She just can't seem to find a balance with her emotions, I don't know maybe its the Divergent in her, maybe its not, I don't really know but I do know it just didn't make me want to like her at all. But you know what for some reason unknown to me, I did find myself empathising her. I liked the way she was always supporting her friends, even if they did seem to ditch her at a certain point, and she's always sticking up for herself, which is amusing because no one really ever takes her seriously except maybe Four. (I have to admit I liked Katniss a whole lot better than Tris)Talking of Four, now he's your typical dark, brooding guy with a glint in his eye and trouble in his past. Who can really blame me for having a complete book crush on him? Seriously, who doesn't love the whole bad boy angle? This boy has secrets, but I don't really understand why some of them are secrets, they didn't seem that bad to me. Anyways He's described wonderfully and I was literally drooling at the mouth over him. One word. Yum!!None of the other characters really made that big of an impression on me, they all seemed to be stuck within the typical stereotypes which I'm not a fan of. The only other character who I loved hearing about was Uriah. He's definitely my fav, even better than Four. He should really have received more face time in this book as I'm seeing him as being some kind of underdog in the coming books.The story as a whole wasn't as action packed as THG but there was a lot of tension and suspicion to fill the void. I felt this book could have focused less on the initiation and more on the events in the final chapters. The way this book totally tops THG though is there's no pathetic attempt at a love triangle. Tris does have some interest from other boys but she quickly shoots them down, which just goes to show there is some girl power left out there. After all the indecision Tris may have over which faction to choose she is totally straight minded with who she wants, which is so refreshing. This book is totally awesome and totally DIFFERENT from other dystopia books I've read. I'm officially in love with this series and I'm currently hunting down the next in the series.
    • 3/5
      ok

    • 5/5
      The story was as expected and the narration was excellent.
    • 4/5
      If you enjoyed Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, this is a great book for you. Beatrice lives in a dystopian society, but she doesn't know until she is tested and discovers that the world is not as cut and dry as she thought it was. Her direction in life should have been clearly outlined after the test that tells her which of the five factions she should join when she turns 16, but it has only brought her more confusion. Once she makes her choice, the fight for her life begins.
    • 5/5
      Loved this book, loved the premise, loved the writing style. I am excited for book 2 to come out later this year.
    • 5/5
      Okay, now that I've had some time away from this book to cool down and come down from my "high" I have to say... I'm still in love. I thought that it was smart, it had brave characters(and sad ones,) this book breaks down the simple parts of society(our steriotypes of smart, brave/strong, kind, selfless, honest, helpless) and pairs them with the complexity of characters that jump off the page. 1. I loved that Veronica Roth's characters were so fleshed out. I felt like they were real and in some way their stakes were real and, to me, their story became that much more important. Tris was a good mix of being strong and just... feeling whatever it was that she wanted to feel. It wasn't forced and that was something I really appreciated about the writing, most things just seemed to come easily. 2. The world was wonderfully craftedand as a reader I appreciated the thought but into it. I loved the pieces of today sticking around from what would, in their time, be a historical era. I did have some difficulty picturing a few parts, and even after re-reading them I was still as to exactly what they were to look like, but I loved what I was able to grasp. 3. The society... ok. I know a lot of people had issues with a society functioning on just five sections (well six if you inculde the factionless who basically do all the dirty work and don't get any food) but I think she did a really good job with making it function within the world that she created. 4. The love story, I confess that I saw it coming from a mile a away, but I couldn't bring myself to care. It was amazingly smooth and natural. I was also so relieved to see no love triangle, I mean there was the breath of one... but it was quickly disbanded. 5. Dislikes and likes. Veronica Roth is not afraid to do what needs to be done to move her story forward; which I love... it really just came down to her being unappologetic as a writer and doing what she needed to do. I disliked... well obiviously not a whole lot, I mean, it didn't end with a cliff hanger(which I find beyond irritating to be honest), she wrapped it up nicely with the promise of more to come... I loved this book. Anyone, any age should read this. It will captivate you till the last page and linger on your mind long after. Please do yourself a favor and read Divergent.
    • 5/5
      I was totally captivated by this book. An action-filled dystopian fiction based in Chicago, the world (much like in the Hunger Games) has been divided into factions, each responsible for an aspect of society - knowledge, peace, selflessness, security, truth. At sixteen years of age, citizens undergo testing to determine their faction suitability. Some remain in their factions, and others, like Tris and her brother Caleb, choose to become transfers. Tris, however, is different from most. She belongs to a group of individuals whose faction is unclear, these are the Divergents, deemed a threat to the status quo. Although still attached to her family's selfless faction, Tris knows that she cannot live like this and chooses to join the Dauntless, an extremely physical group who spit in the face of danger. As the plot thickens, all is not as it seems and Tris becomes involved in uncovering a plan to overthrow government and becomes a target. Will definitely be reading the rest of this trilogy.
    • 5/5
      Finally!I've just been on a dystopian slump. It was a little discouraging. The last two YA dystopians I've read, I wasn't even been able to finish. It made me very hesitant to pick up Divergent, so much so that I almost just took myself off the tour. I'm so glad I didn't do that. Divergent was definitely something else.From page one I was sucked in, and wasn't able to put it down till I finished the very last sentence. It was amazing to watch Beatrice become Tris. I mean you really can see how every little experience helps build her into a tougher, stronger version of herself. How she goes from struggling to be a meek, selfless Abnegation to this bold and almost defiant Dauntless.I get that it was a dystopian focusing on the society and how that all needed to change, but I really got a sense that it was more of a coming of age story set within a dystopian world. If Tris wasn't able to figure out who she really was, then she couldn't go about helping others. She finds that selflessness and bravery really can go hand in hand and that by choosing one over the other she looses sight of the bigger picture. Being selfless with her courage makes her who she is.All in all a FANTASTIC start to a new world. Where you only get one shot at defining who you are, and that choice can really mean the difference between life and death. All fans of YA dystopian will be swept away with the need to choose a faction for themselves. What's your greatest strength: Honesty, Knowledge, Kindness, Selflessness or Courage? Which would you choose, if you only got one choice?5/5 Stars!
    • 4/5
      good book, narration was great.
    • 5/5
      Much better than movie
    • 4/5
      I'm really amazed at the plot similarities between this and The Hunger Games trilogy. While I enjoyed reading it, I devoured it in a single day, I have to wonder... particularly the ending sets up the next book to be much like Mockingjay, or maybe I'll be surprised?
    • 2/5
      This book was recommended to me as one to read because I was a fan of The Hunger Games. As a fan of the Hunger Games, this book was boring.The idea itself is quite sound and interesting. Five factions, you have to decide where your loyalties lie and the phrase 'faction before blood' is repeated throughout the book. However despite a strong start all of this disappears as the story becomes a cliched look inside a weak girl's mind as she deals with feelings for a boy she likes but really shouldn't because he's such an anti-social hardass. Beatrice/Tris is inconsistent to me. She starts out as weak, quiet, unassuming and then becomes a witty, arrogant, snarky young girl. If it was mean to be the Dauntless effect, there was no real connection there for me. My biggest issue of the story is that so much is referred to as normal behaviors for certain factions, Candor are honest, Dauntless are daring, etc, but we have absolutely no history on why these factions came into existence. There is just brief mentions that things are different now and the factions are to stop the world becoming what it used to be. But it doesn't specify if this is post-war, or present day, or anything. And the brief mention of the factionless (people who don't get selected or are kicked out of a faction) makes me think that this is where Tris is going to end up, and perhaps rally the factionless together in some renegade fight against those in charge who, again, are not identified too clearly. I found the whole novel predictable. When Beatrice explains the factions at the beginning and notes her family born Abnegation as the extremely polite do-gooder faction who never ask questions and always put others first, and then explains Dauntless as the 'scary' option because they are so fearless, it was screamingly obvious that Beatrice was going to change. The shock was that her brother changed as well, but we don't get a hell of a lot of insight into that. Tris somehow makes it to the top of the leaderboard with all her other Dauntless initiates to her own and to my disbelief. She doesn't get why she's good, and its not explained to the reader.The strained romance between Tris and Four I found utterly unbelievable and awkward to read. And it surprised me how this girl who grew up with such a sheltered life and has never had the social interactions expected of a girl her age manages to act exactly like a teenage girl from a modern day novel. Whenever it was a scene with Four and Tris, I skimmed right past it. I could not care less about them, and the story narrows to become just about the two of them towards the end, so I skimmed a lot of that, too.If you want The Hunger Games without the action, adventure, mystery and unique heroine, then read this book. Otherwise, avoid.
    • 5/5
      Novel set in dystopian Chicago wherein there are five factions of people with specific personality characteristics: Abnegation (selfless), Candor (honest), Dauntless (brave), Amity (peaceful/kind), and Erudite (intelligent). These factions were formed to stop the greed that comes from too much power and to help prevent war. In theory, everyone is to live in harmony, but the different factions tend to disagree with eachother and to "war" amongst themselves, although up to now it has only been a war of words. Beatrice Priory and her brother, Caleb, are 16 and must now choose which faction they want to belong to. They come from Abnegation and have been given aptitude tests to help them decide, but if they leave their current faction, they will also be leaving their family behind, which is looked at as a betrayal. The choice is difficult for all because it is a choice for life. If they do not succeed at their initiations into their chosen factions, they become factionless (homeless) and end up with the worst jobs available and have to beg to survive.Beatrice has started having niggling thoughts like wondering what is outside the city limits (forbidden) and wondering why gates are locked from the outside--"It's almost like they are locking people IN rather than keeping danger OUT".Beatrice and Caleb make their decisions and progress on to completing their initiations and battling the challenges and doubts that accompany their choices. Beatrice reinvents herself as "Tris" and surprises everyone with admitting to an extent who she really is, although she does carry a secret about herself which could get her killed. She bonds with one of her instructors, "Four", who is hiding some secrets of his own. Together they face an opponent who may destroy their way of life as they know it.***My 12yo daughter read this and loved it and asked me to read it too. I agree with her. It is a great story and I'm looking forward to the next one in the series.
    • 5/5
      Definately one of the best books I've ever read!!! Kept me turning the pages from page 1!!! Thank you librarything.com for recommending this too me! Go and buy it, you seriously won't regret it!! :)
    • 4/5
      Divergent. I had heard so many good things about this book that it was hard not to pick it up when I saw it in the bookstore, a few bucks cheaper than its usual price. So I did.I admit, the beginning was a little slow moving at first, but being the dedicated book-addict that I am, I kept on reading, and it was definitely worth it.This is a futuristic Chicago, where everyone is divided into their own factions (the summary above would tell you that). You’re stuck in the faction you were born in until you reach sixteen, which is when they will give you the choice to leave that faction, or stick with it.Surprisingly (or not), my favorite character was not the MC. The MC, Beatrice ‘Tris’ Prior, didn’t seem particularly different from the other MCs in all these YA novels I’ve read. She was quiet, had hardly any friends, and felt like she didn’t belong in her faction. So she didn’t really stand out. Furthermore, as the book progressed, and she became braver and began to climb out of her little sheltered life a little more, she had these bouts of anger and hatred toward her enemies, which I felt was not really necessary. It was like she was a whole new person altogether. One moment, she’s this small and timid girl, and the next, she’s turned violent, and looks for any opportunity to swing her fists at anyone who agitates her. Oh, and did I mention she also caused one of her friends to commit suicide? Not directly, but she was the last straw.No. She wasn’t my favorite.Her love interest was.I know, typical for a hopeless romantic like me, right?Yeah.He really struck me as a nice guy. The kind of guy I’d like to be with. Of course, there were some moments when I wanted to punch him in the face, too, but… I shan’t go into that.Another thing I liked about this book was that the romance made me smile and giggle like a crazy schoolgirl. No, seriously. Tobias/Four—that’s her love interest’s name—kept leaving small hints like this which she didn’t pick up, and it drove me insane. It was good to see that they were finally revealing their feelings for each other again. Oh, and it wasn't ‘love-at-first-sight’. *huge grin* But, sadly, Divergent had one major flaw: I couldn’t see where the plot was going.Sure, I knew the conflict was that she was Divergent (which is not listed among the factions), and that she was extremely dangerous, but I didn’t know why. It was only until I was about three quarters through the book that the author finally revealed it. While I was reading, I kept wondering, “Okay, where’s this going? So what if she’s Divergent?” Maybe that was Roth’s way of trying to keep the readers’ attention, and she succeeded, but only because the events that were happening made it so interesting to read.Divergent was great and enjoyable to read. I’m waiting for the sequel now!
    • 5/5
      After reading this exquisite novel I would recomend this book to several teens and adults. After a war this community was split into five factions,(Dauntless, Abnigation,Candor,Euridate,and Amity). When Tris turned the age to get tested for what faction she belonged in she crossed a shocking result. Tris was Divergent. She soon found out Divergent was not a good thing. Tris now has to fight through love, loss,and lifeto survive. i personally enjoyed this book. Go and branch out to read Divergent.