She turns to the future in a world that's falling apart.
For sixteen-year-old Tris, the world changes in a heartbeat when she is forced to make a terrible choice. Turning her back on her family, Tris ventures out, alone, determined to find out where she truly belongs.
Shocked by the brutality of her new life, Tris can trust no one. And yet she is drawn to a boy who seems to both threaten and protect. The hardest choices may yet lie ahead...
For sixteen-year-old Tris, the world changes in a heartbeat when she is forced to make a terrible choice. Turning her back on her family, Tris ventures out, alone, determined to find out where she truly belongs.
Shocked by the brutality of her new life, Tris can trust no one. And yet she is drawn to a boy who seems to both threaten and protect. The hardest choices may yet lie ahead...
WOW.
Wowwowwow.
I’m not sure what I was expecting from Divergent, but I LOVED this book. Initially I feared it was straying a little close to a certain feisty-fighter-teenage-heroine-dystopian-trilogy which we all know and love, but I could not have been more wrong. Veronica Roth has an extremely distinct voice and vision; Tris is brave and strong and independent and is willing and able to prove that to anyone who wants to see. With the clear narrative from the naturally suspicious Tris’ perspective, it keeps us readers second-guessing everyone she meets, unsure whether they will prove to have an agenda or a motive. Advice to you, readers – if you are just starting this book, don’t even try and guess where it’s going. You won’t succeed. The twists and turns in this book made it an extremely exciting read and displayed Roth’s natural ability and imagination. Roth’s characters don’t claim to be anything they’re not; no exceptionally irresistible teenagers, or an individually super-talented protagonist, on the contrary I found the characters easy enough to empathise and identify with, but they still remained difficult to predict and fully understand, just like in the real world. What’s more, Veronica Roth makes a far bigger statement than just the plot of this remarkable story. I found there to be a subtle and relevant warning in Tris’ story of a war-torn society which threw blame to various aspects of human error for their ancestors’ demise and subsequently formed five separate ‘factions’ based on how they felt they could remedy these problems. The factions, in turn, form concise communities and identities around their aptitudes and beliefs, leaving a cliquey and somewhat tribal division across them all.
Although the consequent abundance of characters and of Tris’ fellow initiates did make for a slightly confusing introduction to Divergent, you quickly realise which names you need to remember and, of course, the one you can’t forget: Four. I am just too excited to start Insurgent!
Wowwowwow.
I’m not sure what I was expecting from Divergent, but I LOVED this book. Initially I feared it was straying a little close to a certain feisty-fighter-teenage-heroine-dystopian-trilogy which we all know and love, but I could not have been more wrong. Veronica Roth has an extremely distinct voice and vision; Tris is brave and strong and independent and is willing and able to prove that to anyone who wants to see. With the clear narrative from the naturally suspicious Tris’ perspective, it keeps us readers second-guessing everyone she meets, unsure whether they will prove to have an agenda or a motive. Advice to you, readers – if you are just starting this book, don’t even try and guess where it’s going. You won’t succeed. The twists and turns in this book made it an extremely exciting read and displayed Roth’s natural ability and imagination. Roth’s characters don’t claim to be anything they’re not; no exceptionally irresistible teenagers, or an individually super-talented protagonist, on the contrary I found the characters easy enough to empathise and identify with, but they still remained difficult to predict and fully understand, just like in the real world. What’s more, Veronica Roth makes a far bigger statement than just the plot of this remarkable story. I found there to be a subtle and relevant warning in Tris’ story of a war-torn society which threw blame to various aspects of human error for their ancestors’ demise and subsequently formed five separate ‘factions’ based on how they felt they could remedy these problems. The factions, in turn, form concise communities and identities around their aptitudes and beliefs, leaving a cliquey and somewhat tribal division across them all.
Although the consequent abundance of characters and of Tris’ fellow initiates did make for a slightly confusing introduction to Divergent, you quickly realise which names you need to remember and, of course, the one you can’t forget: Four. I am just too excited to start Insurgent!
Which faction do you think you would be in?
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