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Divergent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 1) Kindle Edition
This first book in Veronica Roth's #1 New York Times bestselling Divergent series of books is the novel the inspired the major motion picture starring Shailene Woodley, Theo James, and Kate Winslet. This dystopian series set in a futuristic Chicago has captured the hearts of millions of teen and adult readers.
Perfect for fans of the Hunger Games and Maze Runner series, Divergent and its sequels, Insurgent and Allegiant, are the gripping story of a dystopian world transformed by courage, self-sacrifice, and love. Fans of the Divergent movie will find the book packed with just as much emotional depth and exhilarating action as the film, all told in beautiful, rich language.
One choice can transform you. Beatrice Prior's society is divided into five factions—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). Beatrice must choose between staying with her Abnegation family and transferring factions.
Her choice will shock her community and herself. But the newly christened Tris also has a secret, one she's determined to keep hidden, because in this world, what makes you different makes you dangerous.
And don't miss The Fates Divide, Veronica Roth's powerful sequel to the bestselling Carve the Mark!
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherKatherine Tegen Books
- Publication dateMay 3, 2011
- Reading age14 - 17 years
- Grade level9 - 12
- File size9168 KB
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Product details
- ASIN : B004CFA9RS
- Publisher : Katherine Tegen Books; 1st edition (May 3, 2011)
- Publication date : May 3, 2011
- Language : English
- File size : 9168 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 542 pages
- Page numbers source ISBN : 000846894X
- Best Sellers Rank: #8,509 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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About the author

Veronica Roth is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Divergent series and Carve the Mark. She was born in a Chicago suburb, and studied creative writing at Northwestern University. She and her husband and dog currently live in Chicago.
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*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
Title: Divergent
Author: Veronica Roth
Rating - 4.5 out of 5 stars
Ok, sorry that this one is a bit late. I spent some of yesterday re-reading this one again so that I could give a truly accurate review. This does not contain many true spoilers but I do give a few things away so if you really don't want to know anything about it you may want to read it first...
This was an excellent Dystopian. I know that Dystopians are very popular right now and you might feel like you have Dystopian fatigue, but if you have to sort through them and pick only a few, I recommend Divergent. What is astonishing is that this was a debut novel by Veronica Roth, a college student, and while it is not perfect (what is), it is an extremely engaging read. I even think the label Young Adult is only partially true in this case because it is an excellent read for those who would enjoy an adult Dystopian as well (like Brave New World). (I kind of feel the same way about Eden's Root at times, but this one even more so.)
Synopsis
Tris (Beatrice) lives in what was once the Chicago area and she comes from one of five factions that were created following some type of significant or possibly apocalyptic war. Her faction is Abnegation, those who believe man's best quality is selflessness. The members of the Abnegation faction are the political leaders of the entire society as it is believed that the selfless make the best rulers. They live simply and without many material comforts and are resented by some of the other factions which include: Amity (the kind), Erudite (the intellectual), Candor (the honest), and the Dauntless (the brave).
In their teens, all children are asked to make a life changing decision and it is no different for Tris. They first take a series of aptitude tests which are really just mental simulations. In 99% of cases, children's reactions to the simulations are consistent with the faction in which they've been raised. So for Tris, she is expected to have responses consistent with Abnegation. Instead she has responses consistent with three factions, only one of which is Abnegation. It's determined that she could fit into Erudite and Dauntless as well, a level of mental flexibility that is unusual in their society. Tris' true designation following the test is kept hidden from everyone by the test administrator who tells her that she is what is called 'Divergent', and it is a very dangerous thing to be. Though the factions were created in the hopes of stopping any future war, there are tensions between factions that are simmering. Being a person with a mental 'grey area' makes Tris a target for those with bad intentions.
The Real Reason Tris Chose the Dauntless...
On the day of her choice, Tris is torn between her desire to please her family and stay in Abnegation with them and her desire to please herself. Whatever faction a teen chooses is final and it is a choice that supersedes their family. This means that once you join a different faction. you must leave your family behind. In the moment of choice Tris chooses to join the Dauntless. When her little brother Caleb also chooses to leave Abnegation for the Erudite, the die is cast.
The scenes in the book that come as Tris works to find acceptance among the Dauntless are quite literally exhilirating. You can feel the newfound sense of freedom that Tris gains as she hurls herself from moving trains, off building ledges and down 100 story zip lines. And you root for her over those who are stronger and meaner in her initiate class because you sense that there are two kinds of Dauntless, the brave and the simply cruel, and you are rooting for the brave. This disparity is best illustrated by the power struggle between the two main Dauntless leaders that you get to know: Eric and Four. Eric is strong and he is in charge, but his strength is derived mostly from cruelty. Four is strong and kind, but has chosen not to be the person in the highest position of power, opting to train new initiates instead. Four and Tris are drawn to each other as she maneuvers her way through the incredibly vicious and occasionally insane steps of Dauntless initiation.
Though Tris believes that her main challenge is to perform well enough to be kept amongst the Dauntless rather than being kicked out to join the helpless, hopeless ranks of those without a faction, the truth goes much deeper. When her seemingly perfect 'Abnegation' mother visits her at the Dauntless compound on visiting day to give her a message, Tris begins to learn the extent of the discontent amongst the factions. The leader of the Erudite is publishing a nonstop stream of vitriol against the Abnegation and Tris' father and other prominent leaders in particular. Her intent seems to be to incite revolution. Tris' mother warns her and urges her to go visit her brother in Erudite to give him an important message. When Tris does, she is swept up into the factions' political wrangling without a full understanding of it.
On the day of initiate acceptance into the various factions, the power grab of the Erudite begins. Tricked by unscrupulous members of their own faction, the Dauntless are transformed mindless slaves. The only reason that the plot becomes obvious to Tris is because she is Divergent and the mind control does not work on her. It is also the moment that the true evil of the plan reveals itself. In the end, it is up to Tris to save both the Dauntless and the Abnegation. If she is Dauntless enough, she will succeed. If not, she will watch everything she loves be destroyed...
Coming in May - Insurgent
This book is the first in a Trilogy, which I did not totally realize when I first read it. The main issue I have with it (and the only reason for docking a half star) is that the backstory is not well explained. Of course, it is not really necessary in order to fully enjoy the story, but there are times that you think, "Hey, what about the rest of the world? Are the only survivors in the world in the Chicago area?" You also want to know what caused the great war that resulted in the creation of the factions. It seems like the behaviors of the factions are very extreme and you wonder about the direness of the circumstances of the war that would lead to such extremes. Finally, you want to know why, while some factions have technologies like mind control and hover cars, others (the Dauntless) live in partially underground caverns or worse (the factionless) survive like the modern day homeless, eking out life in the ruins of Chicago. It seems like a disparity that is hard to quite get. Of course, real-life class disparity has always been a difficult thing to understand and perhaps that actually helps to contribute to the sense of realism in the story. Regardless, in the end, like everyone else, I loved Divergent and I am very much looking forward to INSURGENT, her next book, which is coming out in May.
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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.
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
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