Divergent

I try to stay up to date on the hot Young Adult fiction. My kids either have or will want to read a lot of these, and so I try to make sure I am familiar with them. Some I really enjoy (Rick Riordan's work for example), some have a lot of promise then fizzle out (I'm looking at you Hunger Games series). So with Divergent being the new hotness in our home (we had a countdown for the movie running) I decided to give it a go.

Well, sadly I couldn't make it. Kindle tells me I made it 83% of the way through it but that was when I called it quits.

Future dystopian fiction has the difficult challenge of walking that line between telling you too much about the world or not enough. I just never felt that I knew enough about this world and what led to the world as it is. As such, I never felt interested I the world. The characters were just a bit too cliche for me as well. The main character, Tris, never was someone I cared about. And I found myself caring even less about Four, her dreamy love interest. Finally, it was becoming too teen angsty for me. The development of the relationship between Four and Tris never felt real. It was obvious that they were going to end up in a relationship, but I never saw any real reason for that to happen. There was just no believable development to the relationship.

I ended up reading the synopses on Wikipedia and think I mad the right choice in stopping when I did.