Divergent (Divergent, #1) in Crazy Challenge Connection

Jan 08, 2012 Anne (Booklady) Molinarolo rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: good-fiction, sci-fi-fantasy, young-adult, permanent-library, fall-2013

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 ...more

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Feb 29, 2012 Rusty rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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 ...more

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Sep 12, 2013 Melissa Wehunt rated it really liked it

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

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May 07, 2012 Pinar Celebi rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: own, series, sci-fi, young-adult, romance, american-lit, read-in-original-language, books-read-in-2012, kindle, e-books

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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 http://pinucciasbooks.blogspot.com

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 or between Tris and Katniss. Then this somehow diasappeared because this was a totally different world. Yes, it was again dystopian but totally different. I loved the desciptions and character development (just a bit annoyed by the name change of Four along the book). I loved the limited taste of romance and lack of a love triangle. I loved the insecurities of Tris. Her weaknesses and her spirit were so easy to relate to. I especially liked the evolution of her character. It was like she didn’t know herself at first so everything was new to her as they were to the reader.

The world Veronica Roth created forces you to think. I was a bit confused at the beginning about the factions. I had to go back to remember what all the different factions consisted of. Maybe because I read the book in English and I am not a native speaker but once I managed to keep in mind everything, I was dragged away.
The pacing of the book was well done and throughout the book my curiosity was never totally disappeared. I was compelled to keep reading from start to end and once I was done, I wanted more. I think that was the reason for my quick read (Please note that I’m Turkish so it takes time for me to read books written in English).

As Divergent is planned to be a trilogy, I have some expectations. I want to learn about,
- Why has the world changed?
- How did humanity decide to live in factions predicated on character traits?
- How is the world outside Chicago?

Lastly, I was lucky enough to read this book as Turkish copy is still not available in the market. I think it is mainly because a good majority of Turkish readers discover The Hunger Games trilogy right after the movie so publishers don’t want to distract people. I wonder how the translation will be? ...more

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May 20, 2013 Connie N. rated it really liked it

Shelves: young-adult, first-in-series, recommended, dystopia

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 ...more

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Jan 02, 2012 Susan rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: series, young-adult, fiction, science-fiction, dystopia, series-completed

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 ...more

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Sep 11, 2013 Samantha rated it really liked it

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. ...more

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