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Divergent (Divergent, #1)

Veronica Roth

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Jan 10, 2011 A rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Um, WOW? 4 stars... didn't quite keep me up ALL night (had to sleep, work, do chores then finish the 2nd half) but it came really close. ...more

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Apr 04, 2013 David rated it it was ok

Shelves: scififantasy, youngadult, books-i-did-not-care-for, 2014-books

You ever find yourself in a book and the characters feel flat and as contrived as the dystopian future that they live in? Or did you ever find yourself reading a book that was a selection for your book club and just had to force through it because well ... you like your book club?

Did you ever try to write a review consisting of rhetorical questions? Would anyone like that style of writing?

Divergent was not an enjoyable read for me. The writing wasn't awful, it just didn't impress me. I didn't re ...more

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Feb 15, 2012 Nick rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: science-fiction, young-adult-fiction, dystopian-fiction

Really a strong 3 1/2 stars, but worth reading.
Other than the world itself, which never felt fleshed out, I found this to be a fascinating story. In this odd future, focusing entirely on the enclosed city of Chicago [being rebuilt from some unspecified past event or events] the tight focus on the characters was good, and the characters themselves were fascinating.
The flaw, I think, was that the story never convinced me that there was a way to get there from here, or from anywhere believable. Th ...more

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