Divergent
By Veronica Roth
Reviewed by Reece
My rating: between 4 and 4.5
"In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago world, society is
divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular
virtue—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave),
Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of
every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will
devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying
with her family and being who she really is—she can't have both. So she makes a
choice that surprises everyone, including herself.
During the highly competitive initiation that follows,
Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles alongside her fellow initiates to
live out the choice they have made. Together they must undergo extreme physical
tests of endurance and intense psychological simulations, some with devastating
consequences. As initiation transforms them all, Tris must determine who her
friends really are—and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating,
sometimes exasperating boy fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a
secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can
mean death. And as she discovers unrest and growing conflict that threaten to
unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might
help her save those she loves . . . or it might destroy her."