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Divergent
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Start date
April 1, 2012
Finish date
April 30, 2012
Why we're reading this
Won the poll for the BOM

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Rachel
Jun 20, 2012 rated it it was amazing
According to the Faction's Quiz I am equally Candor, Amity and Dauntlness! Yay for Divergency!!!!!! And I agree, those are definitely factions I fit well in; I'm blunt, LIke to be happy and I am pretty brave, though I'll never get a tactoo. I love Four! I love Four! Not as much as Adrian but I love Four!!!!!! I will always be surprised at how much I adore this book! Re-read it again yesterday, June 19th 2012 with the first copy i bought. Last time I read it, it was with a dusty, hardcover librar ...more
Mina
Sep 25, 2013 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Divergent ist der erste Band der Divergent-Trilogie von Veronica Roth. Zur Verfügung gestellt wurde mir das Buch freundlicherweise von HarperCollins UK über NetGalley ♥

Tja, wo soll ich anfangen? Denn wirft man zunächst klassisch einen Blick auf die Inhaltsangabe, kommt man wahrscheinlich ziemlich schnell ins Kopfschütteln: Ein dystopisches Chicago der Zukunft, die Gesellschaft aufgeteilt in fünf Gruppen nach ihren dominanten Charaktereigenschaften – die Selbstlosen, die Freimütigen, die Wissende
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Serah Luna
Dec 23, 2013 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
I'm normally hesitant to pick up anything YA, since the genre and I don't always get along. However, seeing that the movie depiction is set to be released soon, I felt I had to read the book before seeing the movie. The plot looked interesting and the ratings were good, so I grabbed it. I'm glad I did! Tris was a very interesting character, and getting inside her head was a pleasure. It's refreshing to have such a strong-willed female character in a YA book, and Tris was definitely that! The rom ...more
Melissa
Jul 30, 2012 rated it really liked it
Okay, I finally got to read this book and see what all the fuss is about. I have to admit the fuss was pretty accurate. I really enjoyed this book and the almost 500 pages just flew by for me.

In the book Tris is who we follow in this adventure. I really did like Tris, but found her quite difficult and almost too stubborn at times. She was smart, but sometimes you just wanted to shake her to make sure some of those braincells were working. Granted she was in a completely new world and discovering
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Sarah
Jan 06, 2014 rated it it was ok  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: 2014-book-list
I borderline HATED this book. The characters are flat and the description is almost non-existent. The author tells us what the main character is feeling but there is no explanation as to why. It was pretty much impossible to relate to or empathize with the main character at all. The only time the author seemed to bother with any description of HOW the character feels (versus simply TELLING US) was during the moments of her budding sexual attraction to one of the other characters.

The whole basis
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Thom Watson
Well, more like one and a half stars. I tend not to give out many fives, and even fewer ones, but this one came close to the latter. I know one star has the tooltip "I didn't like it," but personally I reserve one star, as the lowest rating available, for books I actively disliked or in fact hated rather than those for which I feel, at most, passive indifference. I didn't hate this book, I just found it completely unimaginative (and its setting unimaginable), illogical and inconsistent with an a ...more
Pam
Dec 18, 2013 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: ya, 2013
ughh I need book 2. and 3!
Eva
Aug 28, 2012 rated it really liked it
Great first book...loved the characters and having Chicago as a backdrop just added to its fun. It is very dystopian but written with great characters that have a lot of complexity.
Kendra
Apr 16, 2013 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
It was amazing, I didn't want to put it down and I can't wait to read the second one! ...more
Nicki
Dec 24, 2019 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Wow! This book is fantastic! I am totally starting the second book in the morning! :)
Marci
Aug 28, 2013 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: fiction, 5-stars
I loved this book!
Nelle
May 23, 2012 rated it it was amazing
Erica Fosmoe
Jun 13, 2012 rated it it was amazing
Missi
Jun 15, 2012 marked it as to-read
Karigan
Nov 11, 2012 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: favorites
Kristin Kydd
Dec 05, 2012 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Katie
Jan 06, 2013 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Sarah
Jan 13, 2013 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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Sandra Lourenço
Ju S.
Jul 21, 2013 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shannon
Nov 04, 2013 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Mindi Poelwijk
Dec 17, 2013 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: read-in-2014
Patrick
Feb 03, 2014 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: in-library
Sarah
Feb 09, 2014 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition