Sunday Book Review #2

Hi all! Ok so technically it's early Monday morning, being 2am, but I worked all day and had no time to post my book review earlier. Apologies aside, I'll get straight into the review:) This week's book was Divergent by Veronica Roth.


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This book was AMAZING!!!! I haven't read a really good post apocalyptic world sci-fi book since Hunger Games came out a few years ago. This story is about a world in which people are separated into different factions; Abnegation, Candor, Erudite, Dauntless, and Amity. Each faction has a different lifestyle belief, and every person at the age of 16 must get tested to see which faction their mindset belongs to. They can either choose to stay with the faction they grew up in, or leave and join another. The story follows a girl named Beatrice, who was born into Abnegation, a faction which believes in being selfless at all times, for Dauntless, a faction which prides themselves in being brave and showing their bravery by doing risky things. The issue is that Beatrice's test results came back as Divergent, which is a very dangerous, and she was told to tell no one. So she and the other teens who chose Dauntless had to go through a violent and fast paced initiation, in which only a certain number of people would make it, and some would become factionless, which was a dismal way to live. Eventually, Beatrice begins to realize just how different she really is, as the story turns to reveal a plot by the Erudite to use the Dauntless as army drones to kill off Abnegation, and so the story turns to Beatrice fighting against her new faction to save her old one.
This book is the first of a trilogy and I will definitely be reading the next two! I give this book a 5/5. Have you read Divergent? What did you think about it?