![]() ![]() I love Veronia’s storytelling, and her way with words. ![]() Honestly, though, it deserves all the recognition it has gotten! And finally we have a book that does not pale in comparison to The Hunger Games.Ģ. I’ve been hearing about this book for almost two years now, so I was pretty scared of it. I was really worried that Divergent would not live up to the hype. ![]() I rarely give myself the time to read books that I have not been sent for review, so it was a lot of fun to get the chance to read it! It was a bit slow-going for me at first, but I ended up really loving it, and can’t wait to get my hands on Insurgent!ġ. I finally did it, guys! Wooo! Well, I really must credit Daisy with this one because she came up with the awesome idea of reading Divergent together. And as she discovers unrest and growing conflict that threaten to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death. As initiation transforms them all, Tris must determine who her friends really are-and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes exasperating boy fits into the life she's chosen. Together they must undergo extreme physical tests of endurance and intense psychological simulations, some with devastating consequences. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.ĭuring the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles alongside her fellow initiates to live out the choice they have made. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is-she can't have both. On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue-Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). Published by Katherine Tegen Books on February 28, 2012 So, what do you think? Link me to your posts, and I’ll come visit! “We take one step toward the edge and then, together, we leap.” – Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver (WHAT!?!?!?!) – Time Between Us by Tamara Ireland Stone “And we walk down the beach toward something he’s never seen before.” – Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins “And I hold my head high toward my big entrance, hand in hand with the boy who gave me the moon and the stars.” “When the tears came, he pulled my close and held me, until there was nothing left but ashes.” Ok, I’m giving you the last lines of Shadow and Bone, Lola and the Boy Next Door, Time Between Us, Pandemonium, and Unremembered. “Locked in darkness that surrounded me like a coffin, I had nothing to distract me from my memories.” “They called the world beyond the walls of the Pod ‘the Death Shop.'” “It has been sixty-four years since the president and the Consortium identified love as a disease, and forty-three since the scientists perfected a cure.” If you have read them already, don’t care to read them, or don’t mind reading my non-spoilery choices, then keep going! If you’re worried, then just don’t continue reading. However, right under my beginnings, you will find a list of the book endings I mention. And don’t worry! I won’t pick spoilery endings. Today, I’m going to select my five favorite beginnings, and my five favorite endings. I love opening a book and being sucked in immediately, and I love ending a book with an amazingly awesome feeling of closure or a thought-provoking message. That sounds so weird, but my two favorite sentences in a book, if done right, are the first one and the last one. ![]()
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