Today's review will be about:
THE SUMMARY
ONE CHOICE
Decides your friends
ONE CHOICE
Defines your beliefs
ONE CHOICE
Determines your loyalties-
forever
ONE CHOICE
CAN TRANSFORM YOU
Decides your friends
ONE CHOICE
Defines your beliefs
ONE CHOICE
Determines your loyalties-
forever
ONE CHOICE
CAN TRANSFORM YOU
MY REVIEW
I was first introduced to this book by my sophomore English teacher, who also happens to have a book blog (http://apocalypsereads.blogspot.com/), and her opening line for this book was: "I like this book more than The Hunger Games." What you don't know is up until that moment all of us at the book club at my High School thought that she was a hard-core Katniss fan, so of course measures were taken and thermometers checked. After reading this book for the second time, I have to agree.
Let me explain:
What we have here is a story about a girl who goes up against everything that she believes of her society, and unlocks the power and strength that is hidden within herself. There is a love story, but it is not a love triangle (Can I get a hallelujah?), and still is as complicated as one. Although The Hunger Games is good, and I am still an avid Katniss fan (up until the last book that is), Tris has taken her rightful place as one of my favorite female characters of all time.
This book will take you on a wild ride from cover to cover, and the adrenaline that you will experience from it is no laughing matter. Every moment is a danger to Tris and the society that she lives in, every pause in the writing is heavy with the words of a fantastic author.
The scene is a futuristic Chicago, in which there are five different factions: Amity the peaceful (red or yellow), Abnegation the selfless (grey), Candor the honest (black and white), Erudite the intelligent (blue), and Dauntless the brave (black). When you reach age sixteen, you take an aptitude test to determine which faction you would be most suited to. Divergents are people who fit into more than one faction, and are therefore uncontrollable.
If you are caught as a Divergent, you will be killed.
Not giving away any spoilers, Tris is a girl who has to try to fit in and hide who she really is. Kind of like a Disney princess we all know and love...
And a lot of us can relate to that, because all of us have times in our lives where we pretend to be someone else and hide all that makes us US. Unlike Elsa, though, the revealing of one's self could put you in the bottom of a chasm with a bullet in your head. (Violence, much?)
I love the Divergent trilogy, and I suspect that if you like Dystopias, you will too.
Let me explain:
What we have here is a story about a girl who goes up against everything that she believes of her society, and unlocks the power and strength that is hidden within herself. There is a love story, but it is not a love triangle (Can I get a hallelujah?), and still is as complicated as one. Although The Hunger Games is good, and I am still an avid Katniss fan (up until the last book that is), Tris has taken her rightful place as one of my favorite female characters of all time.
This book will take you on a wild ride from cover to cover, and the adrenaline that you will experience from it is no laughing matter. Every moment is a danger to Tris and the society that she lives in, every pause in the writing is heavy with the words of a fantastic author.
The scene is a futuristic Chicago, in which there are five different factions: Amity the peaceful (red or yellow), Abnegation the selfless (grey), Candor the honest (black and white), Erudite the intelligent (blue), and Dauntless the brave (black). When you reach age sixteen, you take an aptitude test to determine which faction you would be most suited to. Divergents are people who fit into more than one faction, and are therefore uncontrollable.
If you are caught as a Divergent, you will be killed.
Not giving away any spoilers, Tris is a girl who has to try to fit in and hide who she really is. Kind of like a Disney princess we all know and love...
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| Sorry, but I just had to put Frozen in here SOMEWHERE... |
I love the Divergent trilogy, and I suspect that if you like Dystopias, you will too.
A LITTLE EXCERPT
My family might be able to help me make my choice, if I could talk about my aptitude test results. But I can't. Tori's warning whispers in my memory every time my resolve to keep my mouth shut falters.
Caleb and I climb the stairs and, at the top, when we divide to go to our separate bedrooms, he stops me with a hand on my shoulder.
"Beatrice," he says, looking sternly into my eyes. "We should think of our family." There is an edge to his voice. "But. But we must also think of ourselves."
For a moment I stare at him. I have never seen him think of himself, never heard him insist on anything but selflessness.
I am so startled by his comment that I just say what I am supposed to say: "The tests don't have to change our choices."
He smiles a little. "Don't they, though?"
Caleb and I climb the stairs and, at the top, when we divide to go to our separate bedrooms, he stops me with a hand on my shoulder.
"Beatrice," he says, looking sternly into my eyes. "We should think of our family." There is an edge to his voice. "But. But we must also think of ourselves."
For a moment I stare at him. I have never seen him think of himself, never heard him insist on anything but selflessness.
I am so startled by his comment that I just say what I am supposed to say: "The tests don't have to change our choices."
He smiles a little. "Don't they, though?"
Well, that's all for now!
See you next time!
~Sea-Solo
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