By Veronica Roth
Review by Niamh Cox
Divergent is the debut novel of 23 year old Veronica Roth and the first book in a trilogy, it is also currently on the New York Times bestseller list and had recently been picked up by the same studio that made Twilight, for the eagerly awaited movie.
Divergent is set in the city of Chicago in a dystopian future, where five factions make up the values they think were the opposite to the downfall of mankind. Abnegation is the selfless faction and believes that man’s greed was the downfall of life as we know it. Candor is the honest faction, Erudite represents the intelligent faction, Amity is the peaceful faction and Dauntless represents the brave faction.
The story follows sixteen year old Beatrice Prior or Tris in a life altering decision; to either stay with her family in a faction where she doesn’t belong or follow her heart and go with what she thinks is best choice for herself.
At the age of sixteen everyone must choose their faction and complete initiation or risk becoming faction-less, living on the fringes of society and being helped by the people of abnegation.
Tris was born into Abnegation and like all the other factions is pretty extreme it its beliefs, on the first page alone she describes how she is only aloud to look at her reflection on the second day of every third month, when her mother cuts her hair.
Tris decides at the sorting ceremony to change factions and falls into one of the hardest initiation’s there is, where only ten of the twenty or so initiates make it into the faction. The rest either die or become faction-less, and in this society becoming faction-less is much worse.
I found it fascinating that Roth chose to divide people by their strongest trait than by religion or language. I think that if you’re the kind of person who likes their books to make sense, this probably isn’t the book for you as it’s not the kind of read you would say “Wow, this is exactly where we are heading”
But that’s not the point of the book, the book is a fun read with lots of twists and moments that make your heart hammer with anticipation and anxiety.
This book is a must read if you liked the Hunger Games or Delirium. It's an action packed fight for your life style book, with a love triangle between Good, Evil and Tris, which is quite refreshing in the day and age where Edward Bella and Jacob seem to pop up in every Young Adult book under the sun.
This book also manages to fit into the three most wanted categories: original, popular and enjoyable. And if you, like me, love a good, action packed, fight to the death story you should definitely pick this up. I would recommend this book to anyone from the age of fourteen upwards.
Review by Niamh Cox
Divergent is the debut novel of 23 year old Veronica Roth and the first book in a trilogy, it is also currently on the New York Times bestseller list and had recently been picked up by the same studio that made Twilight, for the eagerly awaited movie.
Divergent is set in the city of Chicago in a dystopian future, where five factions make up the values they think were the opposite to the downfall of mankind. Abnegation is the selfless faction and believes that man’s greed was the downfall of life as we know it. Candor is the honest faction, Erudite represents the intelligent faction, Amity is the peaceful faction and Dauntless represents the brave faction.
The story follows sixteen year old Beatrice Prior or Tris in a life altering decision; to either stay with her family in a faction where she doesn’t belong or follow her heart and go with what she thinks is best choice for herself.
At the age of sixteen everyone must choose their faction and complete initiation or risk becoming faction-less, living on the fringes of society and being helped by the people of abnegation.
Tris was born into Abnegation and like all the other factions is pretty extreme it its beliefs, on the first page alone she describes how she is only aloud to look at her reflection on the second day of every third month, when her mother cuts her hair.
Tris decides at the sorting ceremony to change factions and falls into one of the hardest initiation’s there is, where only ten of the twenty or so initiates make it into the faction. The rest either die or become faction-less, and in this society becoming faction-less is much worse.
I found it fascinating that Roth chose to divide people by their strongest trait than by religion or language. I think that if you’re the kind of person who likes their books to make sense, this probably isn’t the book for you as it’s not the kind of read you would say “Wow, this is exactly where we are heading”
But that’s not the point of the book, the book is a fun read with lots of twists and moments that make your heart hammer with anticipation and anxiety.
This book is a must read if you liked the Hunger Games or Delirium. It's an action packed fight for your life style book, with a love triangle between Good, Evil and Tris, which is quite refreshing in the day and age where Edward Bella and Jacob seem to pop up in every Young Adult book under the sun.
This book also manages to fit into the three most wanted categories: original, popular and enjoyable. And if you, like me, love a good, action packed, fight to the death story you should definitely pick this up. I would recommend this book to anyone from the age of fourteen upwards.
