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Divergent (Divergent, #1)

Veronica Roth

Start date: December 7, 2011

Finish date: December 31, 2011

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Why we're reading this: Chosen by you in our Monthly Poll :)
Overall winner of The Goodreads Choice Awards.
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Apr 12, 2012 Pavlina Read more sleep less blog rated it it was amazing

Shelves: hot-male, favorites, badass-heroine, ya-books, favorite-boys, pavlina

i love this book!!!!All i know is it grabbed my attention and i refused to stop reading!!!!!I loved all the characters especially Tris for being a hardass!!!
Now about four-Tobias I have to say that he is sexy and amazing without even trying!!!!!
;-D

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Dec 06, 2011 Diana Stormblessed rated it it was amazing

Shelves: series, dystopian

This books is seriously addictive. I finished it in under 48 hours. It has serious just-one-more-chapter syndrome going on. For example, I had no plans on finishing this book last night. Was going to stop around page 350, but just-one-more-chapter continued until the whole thing was done.

For one thing, this book is so well written. I am amazed that a 23 year old (younger at the time of writing I guess) wrote this amazing book. The characters are completely lovable. Even the "bad guys" have somet ...more

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Nov 19, 2011 Marie rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favourite-series, 5-stars, must-haves, favorites

This is my 3rd time reading this now and everytime I've read it I've liked it more and more.
The first time I read it was when it first came out and I only gave it 3 stars, the second 4 and now the third 5!

So yes as the rating states I loved it! (to be honest I can't really remember reading it before) but now it has become one of my faves!

It's really good, and completely different to anything I've read before!
So it's really unique and original!

The concept of it all is really cute, how family ...more

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Apr 03, 2012 Wendy rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, top-ya

First book I've read that increased my heartbeat... It brought out my claustro-and-acrophobia; i kept hyperventilating. Tobias you are not alone!!

This book is amazing!!! Here's a timeline of how i felt when reading

Pg 1-45
Hmmm I have read something like this... Oh right the HUNGER games
Pg 46-188
Okay I love this more then the hunger games and it is NOTHING like any dystopian novel I've read.
Pg188-396
... Must stop reading because I'm getting closer to the end. To be honest if Peeta and Katniss to m First book I've read that increased my heartbeat... It brought out my claustro-and-acrophobia; i kept hyperventilating. Tobias you are not alone!!

This book is amazing!!! Here's a timeline of how i felt when reading

Pg 1-45
Hmmm I have read something like this... Oh right the HUNGER games
Pg 46-188
Okay I love this more then the hunger games and it is NOTHING like any dystopian novel I've read.
Pg188-396
... Must stop reading because I'm getting closer to the end. To be honest if Peeta and Katniss to me was amazing then Tobias and Tris are profoundly exotic and has deprived all my emotions to like another fiction character.

REST was just me forcing myself to put the book down because I was suffocating from all the suspense, goodness and pleasure I got from this book.

This book is the first in the divergent trilogy. It's set in a futuristic utopian Chicago where the city has been cutoff from the outside world and live an ostensible idealistic life. This lifestyle follows a procedure of how, when a person is sixteen, is obligated into choosing a faction to live and allow it to dictate their life forever. Each faction is a quality or trait that people think will not corrupt the world again. There is erudite the smart; dauntless the fearless; abnegation the selfless; candor the honest and amity the peaceful ones. When you choose your faction, you are obligated to become a fanatic and ardent towards that trait and I mean it when I say that it dictates you. Anyway, Tris was originally an abnegation and chose the badass lifestyle of Dauntless - in which she has no experience what-so-ever. She then finds out that she's a divergent and must keep it a secret or suffer the consequence of death. Tris is also fighting to cope with the lifestyle of a dauntless and experiencing hardships that may take her life at any moment. As Tris continues her journey, she slowly realize that this 'perfect' world is becoming a dystopian world where the wrong action will not just cost a life but many others.

PROs:
Tris is a character I love. She has nothing special about her. She is not strikingly beautiful and have problems in retaining her emotions but all this makes her real. Something I admire about Tris is how she reacts to when something bad happens, she doesn't just cry and moan on how her life is terrible- because others are struggling as well. Tris is versatile in different environments, she has a brain and she uses it, she knows her weakness and she avoids it; and even when she does do something horrible and vicious I forgive her because I am then reminded of what she capable of - frankly I find heroin that are 'too' nice, weak. I believe that reality hurts and Tris is the epitome of that belief, she's not you average heroin, so get with the program of realism.

The romance in this book was not an instant attraction. It was something that grew from acquaintance to lovers. It was constructed with careful thought, the events that happens between our two lovers are what created their relationship - I find these relationships realistic, amiable, relatable and stable.

I wish could expand on with more positive thoughts but there really isn't anything I can do to describe how in awe I am with this book: if there are still people who haven't read this book, just do yourselves a favor and read it please....... Nowadays there are rarely any books that captured my heart like Divergent. Thank you Veronica Roth for creating this master piece that I was blessed with the chance of reading it. ...more

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Jan 06, 2012 Rebecca Levitt rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites

Ok… I dont know how to begin. I just finished the book. I’m in the utmost of awe. The author is indescribable. She chooses her words perfectly and I just adore every sentence. Every. Single. Sentence. She truly has an amazing amount of talent and skill. At the beginning of the book I thought it was going to be another dystopian that followed The Hunger Games and Delirium and that thought carried through for a lot of the book but almost half way through, it left my mind completely. This was a uni ...more

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Nov 18, 2011 April rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites

This book was amazing! I don't want to give anything away, but I loved Beatrice! She's an amazing protagonist! The storyline is fast paced. The writing is well done. I got through the book in 4 days. Divergent is fast-paced, has a strong and amazing narrator. I just love this book! If you haven't read this book then you should. The whole story is amazing and so is Veronica Roth for coming up with this novel. ...more

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May 05, 2013 Mia rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favourites, unputdownable, supernatural-people, amazing

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMFG! This book was amazing! I loved it so much! I enjoyed every minute of it, Tris, Four, Christina , Will, ALL the characters were great! The Story was excellent! now one of my new favourite series! Can't wait to read Insurgent :D I Recommend this book to anyone! ...more

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Apr 29, 2013 Rebecca Levitt rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: need-to-reread

Actual rating 4.5

Amazing. Keeps it's title of Rebecca's favorite book of all time, even years after reading. I just looked at this book and realized I didn't leave a review so obviously I had to come write one. I'm actually in the process of rereading :) ...more

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