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Okay, I'm hooked! Yet again I've ventured into a genre I normally shy away from - Science Fiction > Dystopia, and I'm glad I did. Veronica Roth is great. Her writing style is easy and comfortable. Her characters are very well developed and they grow before our eyes as people do in real life. The premise is interesting: Five Factions with a specific trait that defines them. But there are others who display traits of 2 or more factions - they are Divergent. And they are dangerous. Yes, probably to
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Whether I should rate this one at 4 stars or 5 is a tough call. Perhaps 4.5 stars would be better. I quite liked the book. It did remind me a bit of The Hunger Games series but this heroine is outstanding in terms of bravery. The only attribute that bothered me was the need to be subservient to her lover, Tobias or Four as he is known to the Dauntless (brave) faction. Chicago is divided into five factions: Dauntless, Candor (honest), Amity (peaceful), Erudite (intelligent), and Abnegation (selfl
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I was pleased with this book....since no one is actually going to read this review for anything important because most people have already read it; I'll just list what I like and be done with it. :)
Likes:
didn't turn out to be totally lame, even after all the hype and a movie being made about it...
went super fast, kept me interested, lots of action
fun lovey dovey stuff, but not lame about it
has a message and it's obvious, but somehow tastefully done -- or at least, I didn't roll my eyes every t ...more
Likes:
didn't turn out to be totally lame, even after all the hype and a movie being made about it...
went super fast, kept me interested, lots of action
fun lovey dovey stuff, but not lame about it
has a message and it's obvious, but somehow tastefully done -- or at least, I didn't roll my eyes every t ...more
May 07, 2012
Pinar Celebi
rated it
it was amazing
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Since from the very beginning, I knew I would love this book and I was not wrong. I loved the setting, the characters (not only Tris and Four, all of them), the plot turns and twist and the end. It is not easy to write a novel that thousands will find original, popular and enjoyable at the age of 23. Well, Veronica Roth managed to do that elegantly.
During the first few chapters, I caught myself trying to find similarities between Divergent and The Hunger Games o ...more
Since from the very beginning, I knew I would love this book and I was not wrong. I loved the setting, the characters (not only Tris and Four, all of them), the plot turns and twist and the end. It is not easy to write a novel that thousands will find original, popular and enjoyable at the age of 23. Well, Veronica Roth managed to do that elegantly.
During the first few chapters, I caught myself trying to find similarities between Divergent and The Hunger Games o ...more
Fascinating. Apparently someone decided that the world should be divided into 5 factions of people, representing peace, courage, honesty, selflessness, and intelligence. Interesting concept if a little blurry as a concept. But the character-development was good through the book. I enjoyed watching Beatrice/Tris grow and develop from a young and protected 16-year-old to building her personality and her skills. Brother Caleb also embraced his internal self and chose his proper path. In Tris's fact
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The idea of doing away with the evils of society by having people choose the one evil they think it's most important to overcome is a fascinating one. Beatrice lives in a society in what remains of Chicago, organized around five factions whose members have chosen among dishonesty, fear, selfishness, conflict, and ignorance as the evils they'll live their lives avoiding. The aptitude test that should have helped Beatrice make her choice is inconclusive, and she enters her chosen faction not at al
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I have read this before but I liked it more this time. I really like Triss, I like her growth from a timid little thing to discovering her "divergent power". I reread it bc when I tried to read Insurgent I couldnt remember anything that was going on.
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A good story. I felt uncomfortable with all the violence and killing at the end, especially because it was just young adults doing the killing.
Dec 18, 2011
Katharine
marked it as duplicates
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Shelves:
imagine-that,
young-at-heart
Apr 11, 2012
Melissa (ladybug)
rated it
really liked it
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Shelves:
yearly-challenge,
4stars
4.5 stars
Jan 18, 2013
April
marked it as to-read
Apr 13, 2013
Jodi
marked it as to-read
