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Divergent (Divergent, #1)

Veronica Roth

Start date: January 16, 2012

Finish date: February 16, 2012

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Nov 22, 2013 Tania rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Divergent is a well-written tale of the future - if the future means that life as we know it ended and true segregation rules again. In this future you must choose - are you selfless, honest, brave, friendly, or do you value knowledge above all else? You must choose wisely, as there is no room for error in this highly structured civilization. It's a very believable setting, certainly, as the author shares with her reader enough breadcrumbs of what humans were like before the factions came to be ...more

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Oct 21, 2023 Shan ~A~ rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audio, crime, series-trilogies-i-started, romance, family, siblings, borrowed-libby, loss-of-a-loved-one, 1st-in-series, sci-fi

Beatrice 'Tris' Porter

The beginning was a bit slow for me. It just felt like I was reading about any teenage girl, in any other time, going about mundane things in her life.

Once Beatrice made her choice and moved to this new faction things started to get better, but it really didn't pick up and pull me in until the last part of this book.

I think if I had known more about the characters backgrounds or more about the factions from the beginning, I would have felt more invested in the story from ...more

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Mar 20, 2013 Talia Dominguez Castro rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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well first let me tell you that I Love This book!! it's so bittersweet!!! Divergent made me laugh and almost cry in some parts! Even though those persons that are very special to Tris got hurt because of her,she still tries to get the other people safe as in not getting killed, and that is very brave of her. I also loved how Four is kind of mean but gentle at the same time. he would be a perfect boyfriend(:! well as for tris's friends, I wish them good luck and I hope they come in the next book. ...more

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