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Divergent (Divergent, #1)

Veronica Roth

Start date: August 1, 2011

Finish date: August 31, 2011

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May 18, 2014 Sonya rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2014, dystopia

I know this should be purely a book review and evaluated on its own merit, but seeing the movie meant I had a surprise or two that I had to adjust to.

I saw the movie – loved it. I saw it a few times actually. Started listening to the audio and was unbelievably disappointed by the book. How could this be? Usually when I see a movie first, reading the book is always a treat when I read all the additional details that could not be included in the movie.

I decided to read the text – I picked up at Ch ...more

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Jan 03, 2012 Morgan rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: kindle-read, young-adult, fiction, post-apocalyptic-dystopic-utopia

Most of my friends list on here has read it and they either are foaming at the mouth in love with it or foaming at the mouth hating it.

Either way there's a lot of foam happening.

I finished this 3 hours ago and have basically spent that time doing other things and trying to wrestle with how I feel about this book.

I'm still not all that sure really. So that's why 3 stars. Middle of the road. Didn't omfg love it, but didn't hate it either.

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Tris. Is that wrong? There were times that I could li ...more

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Feb 10, 2013 Marcy rated it liked it · review of another edition

I enjoyed this book well enough, but I was a bit disappointed; I think I was misled a bit by the previews for the movie. I expected a story about a girl who finds out that instead of having a faction she belonged to, she was found to be Divergent and she had to go underground with the rest of the people who had been classified as such. The actual story is that, after being found to be Divergent, she has a different faction marked in her results and she then chooses another group, the Dauntless. ...more

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Jun 03, 2012 Heather rated it liked it

Good premise and an ok YA book. The ending was a bit of a disappointment. It is like she stopped doing character development and just filled in the outline. It also has a cliffhanger that is more like a TV series and expects you to pick it up next season or at least the next book. That was a bit of a turn off for me so I won't be reading the next book...at least not right now.

Still I liked the main character. I enjoyed the thoughts behind this book and parts of it were well done. I can see why ...more

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