Genre: Science fiction, Dystopia
If you liked the Hunger Games, you are sure to like this new dystopia trilogy beginning with Book 1, Divergent by Veronica Roth. In a future post-apocalyptic Chicago, you are born into one of five factions, each of which has its own strength and focus: Abnegation (service), Candor (truth), Erudite (intellect), Amity (friendship), or Dauntless (fearlessness). But on your sixteenth birthday, you can choose a new faction if you so desire. That is what happens to Tris, a teenage girl forced to choose between her routinized, selfless family and the adventurous, unrestrained future she longs for. She shocks everyone by exchanging the drab gray robes of Abnegation for the piercing and tattoo stylings of Dauntless. What follows is a contest, where only the top 10 initiates are accepted into the final group. This is another Young Adult novel that is also for Adults. Roth tells a riveting and complex story with well-developed characters. It is an unpredictable journey that will hold you to the very end and leave you wanting to check out the second in the trilogy, which is the book, Insurgent.
I have read both trilogies, Hunger Games and Divergent and thoroughly enjoyed both. These books are filled with suspense and action packed. After reading Divergent, you may even want to speculate as to which faction you would be born into and which faction you would choose.
Submitted by: Cecelia Ruegsegger
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