Divergent

Let me start this review by simply stating...*Screams at top of lungs and flails around crazily*Okay. Now that that is out of the way... maybe, there's a good chance I will have to randomly pause for another such freak out moment... I can begin.I have put off reading Divergent since I first heard about it in 2011. 2011 was when I was first rediscovering my bookworm habits, but I was stuck on vampires and angels and all things paranormal. I would not stray and I just was NOT a fan of the whole dystopian scene... AT ALL. I'm honestly still not. BUT I kept seeing all my favorite bloggers just fly off the handle about this book. I got curious and attempted to pick it up... I couldn't get into it. Then Insurgent released, the mania began again and I picked up The Hunger Games and loved it, SO I tried once more and another no go. Then I hear movie rumors and Allegiant releases... I decide on the audiobook. I AM AN IDIOT! I should not have waited so long. I should have made myself keep going when I first checked it out of the library. I bought the Kindle version with it's Audible counterpart and holy penguins Batman! This book... *deeps breathes* I'm trying to keep comporsure here...We meet Beatrice getting ready for the aptitude test that will help her decide on choosing a faction on what they call Choosing Day. She intorduces us to the factions and what the test is, then we follow her through her testing and find out that she is a little different... Beatrice is what they call Divergent. She's told that this is dangerous and keep it to herself and now she is still just as lost about which faction to choose. But oh does she choose... Dauntless. We follow Beatrice... now Tris... through her arrival at the dauntless compund and the beginning of her Intitiation where we meet the ever mysterious and swoon-worthy Four. We follow Tris on a truly MIND BLOWING journey through Dauntless Initiation. It is crazy! We also get to see something brew between Tris and Four. They are all led to believe that their world is controlled and peaceful, but they learn it is not what it seems and things get stirred up. Things go crazy! And so ends my summary because I will probably give the whole thing away. I really have not gotten my thoughts together after this one.There are SO MANY AMAZING characters! So Many! From the beginning something about Tris's mother drew me to her. I really liked her and thought for as little as was shared that she would end up having a lot of depth and being more than what she seemed. I think she is one of the best mom characters I have read honestly. Her Dad I was kind of meh about until the end and I ended up with a massive respect for the man. Her brother Caleb was in the same boat as their mother. I really grew to like him. NOw for Initiates. I LOVED Christina! Awesome character. She was spunky and just straight-forward. And Will... be still my beating heart. He just seemed like such a great guy! He seemed to have the whole wholesome guy thing down and was sweet. Smart. Al... I'm still not sure about. Peter, Molly, Drew... I'd love to strangle. Uriah... another moment where my heart swoons. I freaking LOVE Uriah... I just... gah! I loved him. Then of course... Tris. Tris takes my top spot for best heroine hands down. There is no question in my mind. I love a lot of characters and have so many favorites and say "OMG this one is so much better than them all", but no... Tris is it. She is a badass. She has so much depth as a character. We see her struggle with figuring out who she is and it is realistic. She felt truly real. And of course... Four. *Dies*..... Four is... this one is hard for me because I have had the same #1 book boyfriend for YEARS... Patch. Four... he took Patch. Easily. This rocks my world... shakes it to it's core. Four is one of the best males charcters I have EVER read. His personality, he's deep, he's just everything. The bad guys... Veronica Roth can write a bad guy!The world building in this book... normally I don't go too much into the world building, but the world Roth creates is probably the best I have read. Especially in the dystopian genre. She created a very realistic world. It was very easy to fall into and picture. She was detailed and organized about her world building and it all made sense. It was dark and beautiful all in one. She took the notion of everyone just wanting to fit in somewhere and ran with it. She molded an amazing world. She took what was real and just... futurized it. (I don't know if that's a word)... She took Chicago and technology and aged it in a way that could work... that could very well happen. I loved it. I also loved the fact that Veronica Roth didn't take the nice road. She was ballsy and brave... she took no prisoners and even though I bawled and threw a temper tantrum I loved what she did. It was a hard pill to swallow too.Since I listened to the book I wanted to make note of the narrator, Emma Galvin. I really liked her. She really fit Tris's character voice wise. She has a nice voice and she reads very well. She put her emotions into it and that really showed in her reading. She did an amazing job and I will be listening to more of her.So... this book blew my mind on so many levels. As I said above, I've had gobs of heroines I've loved or annoyed the ever loving crap out of me... but Tris I truly loved all the way around. She takes my top spot easily and she is going to be a hard one to beat. Four... takes my number one book boyfriend and he is passing the one I have had for YEARS! I read Becca Fitzpatrick's Hush, Hush when it was first released... I have loved Patch that long and so much that I have not been able to bring myself to read the last book in that series (though I want to badly) because I am seriously too scared of how Becca ends it. No male character has ever beat Patch... come close... but never. Four does. Four is... wow. I sincerely loved this book and this series may very well slide into my top spot and hold on for a long time. I still cannot believe I waited this long. Veronica Roth took my emotions on the craziest rollercoaster ride of my life for sure. This was a book that absorbed you and held you. I give this one an A+ and so much more.Make note... I will be reviewing the movie!You can find this review at BookLikes: http://lyns8705.booklikes.com/post/828987/divergent-by-veronica-roth

DIVERGENT, by Veronic Roth, is a post-apocalyptic novel about a future society in which the roles people play are determined by the "factions" to which they belong. Residents of Roth's world choose their faction at the age of 16 - Abnegation (for the selfless), Dauntless (for the courageous), Candor (for the truthful), Erudite (for the intelligent), and Amity (for the compassionate). Sixteen-year-olds are given a series of psychological tests that determine which faction would be best for each, although the final choice rests with each individual. The title of the novel refers to the rare individuals who are "divergent," meaning they do not demonstrate a clear link to any one of the five factions. They, Roth suggests, are uncontrollable, and thus a danger to the status quo.The novel is narrated by the protagonist, 16-year-old Beatrice (nicknamed Tris), who learns that she is "divergent," although she is given little information about what that really means. At the start of the novel she must decide whether to follow in her parents' footsteps and become a life-long member of Abnegation, or choose the more exciting and tempting Dauntless faction. Most of the first half of the novel revolves around Tris's initiation into her chosen faction. The second half deals more with the unrest between the factions and Tris's attempts to prevent a war that threatens to destroy the world she knows. There is an element of romance between Tris and her 18-year-old initiation instructor, Four, and the novel is full of intense action scenes, violence, and exciting plot developments.While I did enjoy DIVERGENT, I must admit that I am not fond of present-tense narration, which I find artificial and tedious. This is a very popular writing style right now, however (Suzanne Collins had great success with it in her HUNGER GAMES series), so most readers will probably not be bothered as I was. I also had a little trouble understanding exactly why any government would choose to divide its population into five groups of personality types (it felt a little bit like everyone was living in a Myers-Briggs personality type workshop!) - what would be the benefit to society of having people separated into factions like these? As Roth defines it, all of the leaders of the society come from the Abnegation faction (because they are supposedly selfless), all of the counselors and doctors come from Amity (because they are compassionate), all of the jurists and lawmakers come from Candor (because they are truthful), etc. It makes little sense for sixteen-year-olds to randomly chose a faction which will ultimately determine the course of their lives - nor does it make sense to keep these five very important qualities of human existence separate and disconnected. Leaders, for example, need intelligence, courage, honesty, and compassion just as much as they need selflessness.Ultimately, I think all human beings are "divergent" - we carry within us elements of the five qualities represented in the novel. Roth suggests that the society's attempt to lock its citizens into five specific boxes is an attempt to control them, to weed out individuality (which is the seed of greed, selfishness, and lust for power), and to create a more harmonious world. Obviously, that doesn't work. As Tris's mom says late in the novel, "Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps back in and poisons us again." That's a very common theme for post-apocalyptic fiction - readers will be reminded of such novels as ENDER'S GAME, THE GIVER, and HUNGER GAMES.DIVERGENT is a fast-paced and often exciting novel that will not disappoint fans of the genre. I am also very pleased the Roth gives DIVERGENT a real ending, even though it is the first of a proposed trilogy. Almost every novel being published these days is part of a trilogy, and so many of them leave the reader hanging for a year or more between books. DIVERGENT certainly does leave plenty of room for more story, but it doesn't end with a cliff hanger. And for that especially I applaud Roth.Three stars for the novel itself; the fourth star is for the much-appreciated ending.

"Divergent" is a fiction book that tells the story of a sixteen-year-old teenager, called Beatrice, who lives in a world that is divided in 5 factions. Each faction has a principal to follow, Abnegations are selfless, Dauntless are brave, Amity are kind, Erudites are intelligent and Candors are true. When teenagers turn sixteen they have to go through a test to see which faction they belong to and then choose one independently of their test results. Beatrice's test had unusual results,though and then the story begins.The plot may seem quite far-fetched, but the author makes it become true with her incredible skill for describing scenes and to capture the characters' emotions. It is full of action, romance and bravery, and there is always a new thing you discover at the end of each chapter. When you start reading this book you'll never want to stop. The movie that was made based on the story is really similar to the book, but the author's descriptions and the essence she puts in Tris (Beatrice) makes the story itself much better.I definitely rcommend this book for people who like action stories and romance, for anyone actually, because you can find some characteristics of different literary genres throughout the plot.

Having loved the first film i was intrigued as to what the book would be like…disappointing or not.Not! There is so much detail explaining Tris’s character and her transition from one faction to the other. The characters around her are fully developed in the way the film could never have done. And her relationship with Four grows and becomes clear as the thread weaves its way through the story.I would definitely recommend. Of course i read it in an afternoon (i read fast tho) but it was well worth it…. On to the next one

It is simply different, the factions and all, and altogether with that the character of beautrice and four blends the story very well .... must read novel without doubt👍🏻

This novel is set in a society where people must choose, as teenagers, to belong to a faction. The story takes us on the journey of a girl who has chosen against all expectations, and now must struggle to fit in and prove herself. On the way she finds love and friendship, plenty of twists and turns, and a stunning ending.

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