Saturday, February 18, 2012

Divergent

Divergent by Veronica Roth


This book is amazing. Absolutely wonderful. A bit of mature content, but not much.

The book is set in a future Chicago, where the city is divided into five factions, each of which focuses on a specific trait. The factions are as follows: Abnegation, the selfless, Dauntless, the, well, dauntless, Erudite, the smart, Amity, the peaceful, and  Candor, the honest.

The main character is named Beatrice, who is Abnegation, on the day she takes the test to find what faction she is best suited for. and she finds that she finds out that she can be either Abnegation, Candor, or Dauntless, which means she is Divergent, which apparently is very dangerous. She chooses:


Warning: the following may be considered a spoiler, so you might not want to read it, but maybe you do, and maybe this messege should end. Well, maybe not, but it will, Goodbye.


Dauntless. I forgot to mention that the Dauntless get around on trains that don't stop, ever. So the first test is to get on and off the train, and the second test is to jump of a building into a hole with a net at the bottom that nobody ever told you about. Then there is a grueling initiation thingamajig, and then there is a major plot twist that is


More warnings!! The following is a major spoiler that just about tells you everything that happens so yeah.


Somehow, which you would know if you had read the book, everyone is brainwashed and goes to war with Abnegation. And this is kind of a random plot change, but it works nicely. READ THE BOOK!!!! 

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