Divergent (Divergent, #1) in Reading with Style

Mar 21, 2012 Athira (Reading on a Rainy Day) rated it liked it

Shelves: aud-ya, fiction, list-series, f-dystopia, f-general, 2012, source-library, format-print

Beatrice is nervous. She has a test coming up soon. The test. The test that will determine her future. On a particular day each year, all sixteen-year olds have to take a test that will find the dominant quality they possess and thus find the faction that best suits them. A day after the test, they have to make their choice. If they choose a different faction from the one they were born in, they cannot return back or meet their parents. Beatrice's test doesn't go as expected, forcing her to keep ...more

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Jul 25, 2011 Isabell rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: owned, audiobook, ed-english, young-adult, unabridged, read-2011, romance, dystopian, american-lit, 21st-century

Another contribution to the currently trendy dystopian setting. Beatrice lives in a city in which the inhabitants are divided into different factions according to their most prominent character trait. The factions are a result of former wars and the realization/assumption that the best way to prevent future warfare would be to concentrate on certain character traits. When they grow up the young members of the city have the choice to which faction they want to belong. A test on the day before the ...more

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Sep 16, 2011 TMBookluvr rated it liked it

This book was a cliche of YA distopian books. It kept my interest and I didn't go in thinking it was a work of classic litarature so I was not disappointed. It was fun, emotional, and typical, but it has good characters and it keeps me wanting to finish the series, so now I have to wait until the other 2 (or however many) are published.

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I say this is cliched because of the "YA distopian, pick a faction, pick a job, relunctant and unassuming rebel who is out to save the world" Tri ...more

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Mar 21, 2012 Jayme(theghostreader) rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 5-star-books, library-books-read, young-adult

I really enjoyed this book. First of all, I like books that are set in the same place I live in. This book was set in Chicago, Illinois. It is kinda weird reading about places you know.

Now about the book, the Divergent world is broken down into five factions: Dauntless, Amity, Abegentation (sp?), Candor and Eudite. You are supposed to fit into one of these places or choose to live in one of these places but the world doesn't work like that. If you don't fit, you are Divergent and as good as dea ...more

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