Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Reading List: Divergent, Insurgent, and Allegiant by Veronica Roth

Divergent (book) by Veronica Roth US Hardcover 2011.jpg  Insurgent (book).jpeg  Allegiant novel cover.jpg

Positives:
Ziplining off the Hancock!

Negatives:
Teen angst.

Suggested Reading Environment:
At a coffee shop in the Merchandise Merciless Mart, with a piece of chocolate cake.


I tore through all three of these. Did you know that the author, Veronica Roth, is only in her 20s? Talk about making me feel like I need to hurry up and do something already. Too bad that making up annoying rhyming songs isn't bringing me fame and fortune --(it worked for Raffi, but so far, not for me.)

Here is the Amazon description:
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.
Admit it... Divergent was better than Hunger Games. 

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