Divergent

Do yourself a favour. If you choose to read this book, stop here.
This has about as good an ending as you're going to get, they left the city and made their own way in the lands outside the fence, faced man and nature and themselves and all that, overcame obstacles and took risks, and they lived interestingly every after.
Trust me. It's better this way.
If you really want to read the rest of the trilogy you're better off writing it yourself.

I only say this because this book in particular is actually a little fun and interesting as a light read. Kind of a Hunger Games meets Enders Game in my opinion (because the compound parts totally read like Ender, obviously Ender is wayyyyyy better written. Hunger Games is not a well written book by any means, but this has an eerily similar feel -to this day I swear it was written for the sole purpose of becoming a movie, like writing the movie novelization before the movie even gets made so that people will actually read it-)

Veronica Roth does have some great potential, her ideas are interesting and well worth pursuing. I look forward to better development and execution of those ideas in the future.

great book.

Promising start to this trilogy but feels like I am holding back on the basis of how the remaining two books pan out.

3.5 stars
This is another book prostitute to me.

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After all the hype about this book, it was actually rather disappointing. Though that might have been because of the hype.

Parts of this book were extremely frustrating. There are parts where the characters go against their established role for no good reason only to flip back again. Plot devices were a little too obvious and characters didn't even have to try to get to the information they weren't supposed to find. Also: “Oh, she didn't know that? Odd considering she was told three chapters ago!”

That being said, the story is one that is easy to get hooked onto. Roth didn't give away too much about any character too quickly. The calm bits are written in a way that lets you move through them quickly enough to get to the high moments without losing interest. And the ending was also written in such a way that if you were to decide not to continue reading the series you can still feel like there has been some resolution, even if the major conflict hasn't been settled.

As someone that isn't really into the whole dystopian craze, I actually really enjoyed Divergent. The plot was the epitome of a young adult/dystopian novel where a ‘normal' girl lives in a world with a totalitarian government that figures out she is actually an outcast, falls in love with a similarly out of place boy and they save the day. Despite the typical plot and chain of events, Divergent was very engaging; I found myself losing track of time and reading until 5am. I understand why people love this book and Veronica Roth, without a doubt, deserves all the praise she's been receiving. Definitely one of the better dystopian type novels I've read!

Gostei muito do livro, pois comecei a ler e tinha serias dificuldades em deixá-lo de lado pra viver a vida real.
Mas achei tão perturbado quanto The Hunger Games. A ideia de ter que decidir seu futuro aos 16 anos e ficar longe de sua família, além de enfrentar seus maiores medos do a fim de tornar-se mais forte.. É um pouco bizarro.
Gosteu da ideia proposta, embora tenha achado muitos estereotipada cada facção, como se para que você seja audacioso você tenha que fazer tatuagens ou piercings; mas se você for altruísta ou fraco ou qualquer outra coisa não o seja permitido ter uma tatuagem, porque isso é vandalismo... Enfim! E! Como me esquecer disso: primeira vez que o par romântico, o “muso” da série, não me encanta. Tobias Four é um filé maaaaas não surte efeito que dobra o estômago da mulherada (como Will Herondale ou Ren). Uma pena, pois o moço É escultural.

Sobre a leitura total a única coisa que lamento é não ter sentido aquele desejo por continuar lendo os demais livros. Meio que... Se terminasse nesse, estaria okay.
Mas terminarei a trilogia pois quero saber o que mais tem para mostrar.
Agora, só espero que o filme não decepcione.

Paasvakantie! Geen school voor de kinderen! Er was een vriendin van Zelie in huis, en plots was er besloten om naar een film te gaan, en wel Divergent.

Ik had de naam al vaag gehoord, maar geen idee waar het over ging. “Iets met science fiction”, werd mij verzekerd, dus hey, waarom niet, dacht ik.

Het begon goed in de cinema, met een soort voorfilmpje voor Divergent zélf, net voor de film. Ik probeer zoveel mogelijk voorfilms te vermijden, dus ik zat daar met mijn ogen dicht en mijn vingers in mijn oren – proper, ongetwijfeld.

Afijn. De film bleek een soort kruising tussen Logan's Run en Hunger Games en dergelijke te zijn. Niet per se slecht, niet per se goed, maar wel intrigerend genoeg om mij zin te geven om het vervolg te weten te komen, en dus om het boek van de film te lezen en dan de vervolgen op het boek van de film.

Neen, ik heb niet veel nodig, neen.

En dus: Divergent, het boek. Dat blijkt onduidelijker en verwarder te zijn dan de film. Ik vond het boek minder goed dan de film, ja.

Niet omdat de film zo uitstekend goed is, maar omdat ik het boek gewoon niet goed vond. Spijtig.

Divergent speelt zich af in één stad, ergens in een onbestemde periode na een onbestemde catastrofe, en het is duidelijk dat er een soort sociaal experiment aan de gang is. Mensen worden opgedeeld in facties: Abnegation, Amity, Candor, Dauntless en Erudite, op basis van een test en eigen keuze. De grote meerderheid van de mensen passen exact in zo'n factie (ze zijn zelfopofferend, vredelievend, radikaal eerlijk, avontuurlijk of intelligent), het hoofdpersonage –uiteraard– past niet in één vakje, is “divergent”, een gevaar, tralala.

Ik snap wel dat het een boek voor tieners is, maar het had er toch een béétje minder vingerdik op mogen liggen.

Hoofdpersonage Beatrice (Tris) gaat van Abnegation naar Dauntless (in een soort sorting hat-ceremonie), blijkt na een tijdje natuurlijk uitstekend te zijn in al wat ze doet, wordt verliefd, spannende avonturen, zucht, geeuw.

De film steekt er tenminste nog een beetje Matrix-achtigs in, met simulaties waar Tris de simulatie om zich heen buigt, maar in het boek gaat het er gewoon om dat ze weet dat ze in een simulatie zit, en dat haar hartslag dus naar beneden gaat, en da's al waar de test op wacht. Ik ben geen fan van mevrouw Roths schrijfstijl, maar daar nog helemaal naast: ik ben een beetje allergisch aan slecht uitgedachte werelden.

Het materiaal, in het bijzonder de wapens en de hoogtechnologische dingen, kunnen duidelijk niet gemaakt zijn in enkel die ene stad. Het aantal inwoners is véél te klein voor een samenleving zoals omschreven. Het sociale experiment kan duidelijk alleen overleven als er ergens een Big Brother is die het leidt, de potentie voor chaos is daar veel te groot voor, en de manier waarop de macht verdeeld is, is totaal het tegengestelde van wat een mens zou verwachten. En er is een enorme muur rond de hele stad, dat alleen al is voldoende om al vanaf het eerste boek (of de film) te wéten dat we buiten die muur gaan kijken.

Het leest als een inderhaast uitgevonden wereldje, zonder geschiedenis, zonder bestaansreden, zonder maatschappij. Die Dauntless, waar het overgrote deel van het boek zich afspeelt, lijkt op niet veel meer dan een straatbende die bezigheidstherapiegewijs rondlummelt op trams. Ja, er wordt ons wel gezégd dat ze “de orde handhaven”, maar het is absoluut onduidelijk waar er conflict zou kunnen zijn in het ideale wereldje.

Ugh, tegenstekelijk slecht. En zo prekerig! Hopen dat het vervolg beter is.

Good read. A real page turner. I'm glad I read it and can't wait to see the movie and read the sequels.

3.5 stars. Entertaining read.

I do not think this is really a “good” dystopia novel. I had some issues with the plot and the fact that you'd have to suspend a LOT of belief in order to imagine a world like this ever happening. (The reason the world is terrible is because we're not courageous enough? Please.). I didn't think Tris was that likeable of a character. I hated that sections of it felt ripped straight from Harry Potter and The Hunger Games. I don't particularly think Veronica Roth is a great writer.

All that said, I found it entertaining and I had a hard time putting it down. By that merit, I give it three and a half stars. And now I want to know what happens, so I will probably read the other books in the series too.

actual vote: 4.5 stars

per far quadrare tutte le mie domande, mi sono spoilerata Allegiant. quando sono in modalità “devo-sapere” ho bisogno di risposte e nessuno può fermarmi, a meno che il libro non sia ancora stato pubblicato.
risolti i miei dubbi, è stato un libro bellissimo e assolutamente consigliato. forse è un distopico un po' violento per essere uno YA e per fortuna l'inizio della storia d'amore non ha occupato la trama principale riducendolo a una storia d'amore teen. per me la fase del primo innamoramento è passata, quindi la lettura mi risulterebbe un po'patetica.
se non considero gli spoiler che ho letto, però, al libro manca qualcosina. avrei voluto saperne di più del contesto, di come si arriva alla suddivisione in fazioni.. magari il tutto spiegato in un prologo.
a parte questo, non vedo di leggere Insurgent e le storie brevi su Quattro, perché questo primo libro mi ha risucchiato, mi ha letteralmente drogato :)

I stayed up all night because I just couldn't stop! It's been a long time since I listened to a book in one sitting. I'm so ready for the movie now!

Wow. I love that sometimes reading a particular book lines up with the lessons you are facing in life at that very moment. Reading Divergent right now was exactly that for me.

Interesting ideas explored in this book. I believe the biggest lessons to be learned are: Bad comes from devaluing those who don't value the same things you value. Freedom to be who you are at the core is vital to survival and happiness. Precious time and resources are wasted when looking for what's wrong/different about others, instead of celebrating and appreciating what others have to offer.

No ha estado mal, pero como toda saga hay que valorarla en su conjunto.
Pero me ha gustado el ambiente, la ciudad...Incluso las facciones.
No terminada de conectar con Tris, hasta que me di cuenta de que estaba igual que ella: Confusa.

En general, chachi.

Entertaining. I thought the end was too jam-packed.

I quite enjoyed this book. I finished it in a few days and I've started the second in the series. It's pretty standard YA strong female first-person fare, but what sets Divergent apart is the world that Veronica Roth has created. Sure, one can draw up parallels to Hunger Games (which many consider a rip off of Battle Royale)dystopic future world, factionized societies, etc, but while Hunger Games is vague, Divergent sets itself up in the heart of Chicago, a warning to us from the future of what might come to our society.
I like that while the story is societally futuristic, not much else is far beyond the realm of current science and technology. It is easy to see how this world came to be.
For me to keep reading I don't necessarily have to feel a kinship with the characters or even be invested in them (I spent much of HG wanting to smack Katniss across the face) but I have to be interested in the world in which they live-is it complete? Can I imagine myself living there? Are there weaknesses to the world they've created? In Divergent, it's Chicago, my home town, so I'm already invested, but the world created by Roth is quite complete-at least within the confines of the city. It doesn't feel contrived that the protagonist, Tris doesn't know, since the city and its factions are very insular. I do find myself wonder what is going on elsewhere in the world, hoping that the sequels will satisfy this question.
We follow Tris through her journey from choosing a faction, to initiate and after. I'm being purposefully vague about this. If you want to know I don't want to ruin your excitement when you are about to discover it in the book. On the whole, Tris is very human and likeable for it. Even she wonders about her thoughts and actions, which makes her more likable than other characters in other books.
I won't go into any more, but I did enjoy the first book enough to purchase book 2 right after finishing. I just had to know what will happen next. Sure some of the book is heavy with foreshadowing and a good reader can see some things coming, but they aren't blatant to the point where you are bored by the time they happen. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes post-apocalyptic worlds, societal struggles and general YA science fiction.

At first I was a bit bored, then got interested, then got bored again in the middle, but then when the action picked up I got more interested, so yes i enjoyed it! Can't wait to read the second, however before that I want to finish the first book of vampire academy because I want to see the movie.

It was similar to hunger games in some ways but it was different enough to keep me entertained. I really like the way they delve into the mind and the way we perceive fear.

Unfortunately I saw the movie first... I wish I'd read the book first. I didn't like knowing the storyline before hand. I'm going to get the next one read before the next movie so I don't have the same problem.

Can't wait to read the next one!!

y r so many ppl dying? x.x

Great book, very imaginative.

The hype for this book seemed pretty big and with the movie coming out soon I thought I'd start the series. This book was really similar to the Uglies Series, so if you liked those books you'd probably like these as well. I think the story line was interesting and the author did a good job having a lot of characters without making you feel overwhelmed or forgetting who was who. There were some good deaths that were shocking, but the plot twists were fairly predictable. This could also be because I'm 20 and technically this is a young-adult book. Either way I think it was worth the read and I'll definitely finish the series. If you like distopian societies and books similar to Uglies, Hunger Games, or The Giver than this should be on your to-read list.