Divergent
By: Veronica Roth
Rating: *****
When
you get through half a book in a day, and then finish the next day, you know
that book is excellent. Divergent by
Veronica Roth has taken me into a different world, a world I have never seen
and a world I wish I could go back into. The back of my head wants me to live
in a world like that, powered by factions and laws like the ones in Divergent. A good dystopian novel is
good for the mind, says the Eurodite. I have to agree, this has been one crazy
ride that has twisted my mind into places I have never seen before.
In a
dystopian world in a sort of futuristic Chicago, Illinois, the society there is
split up into five factions. (Well six if you count the factionless) Beatrice,
later known as Tris, is born in Abnegation, a faction filled with selfless
beings who dare not stare at their own face in the mirror because it symbolizes
selfishness. When she has to take the Aptitude test, a test that determines
which faction you will most likely fit in the best, that goes along with
Choosing day, her results come back and she has picked three different factions,
which is unheard of. Choosing Day arrives and Tris chooses Dauntless, a faction
filled with risk-taking, brave souls who would do anything for a thrill. At
least, that’s what those on the outside think. During initiation Tris meets
Four, a depressed looking instructor who can’t seem to take his eyes off of the
charming Tris who is only trying to pass up everyone around her, even her
friends. Everything about Tris and her life changes when she figures out her
simulations are messed up, that she is manipulating
them in a way nobody else can. In a way that’s supposed to be impossible.
Her world turns around and shreds to pieces as she discovers what she is and
what the evil in the world want to do with her.
I must
say thank you to Veronica Roth for providing me with a book I can take with me
to the grave and back. This book has given me two days full of non-stop reading
that I was unable to control. Everything in this book from the plot lines, the
love interest, and the characters, have set me on edge growing hungry for more.
Don’t worry, though. I have begun reading Insurgence
and am half way done with it on the first day as well.
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