Divergent
2011 • 487 pages

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Average rating3.7

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This was pretty bad. Like some poorly edited love child of the Hunger Games and The Giver, Divergent rails on topics like dystopia, free will, and forcing young folk into life changing situations. But I love the aforementioned two books, and Divergent is a bit like when two beautiful people have an ugly baby. The baby itself is probably just fine looking, but doesn't compare to the source material. The whole book revolved around the idea that people's nature divides them into factions. Fine, I can go along with that. Then one of the factions is completely irrelevant and mentioned twice in the entire book.

That being said, I could not stop reading this. Why? I have no flipping clue. I'll probably read the sequels too.

January 5, 2012