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Divergent
by Veronica Roth
I know I rated it four stars instead of five, but I just want to say right away - I loved this book. I really did. I thought it was exciting and refreshing. I thought throughout the book that I would definitely be giving this a full five stars. But I just couldn't do it.
Here is what I liked:
1) Tris aka "Our heroine." First of all, I just flat out adore the name Tris. I liked her for all her strenghs and weaknesses alike. I like how she was conflicted and not perfect. I liked that she wasn't a badass right away and really grew into the girl she was by the end of the book through her experiences with the Dauntless (but also using lessons learned from her past). I liked that her thoughts didn't 100% revolve around boys.
2) Four aka "The Love Interest." And the love interest with good reason. He is good looking in what I imagine to be a brooding way. He is brave and masculine but not a brute. He is intelligent and mysterious. My only complaint is learning his name. I really just want him to be referred to as Four only. It's so much cooler.
3) The Violence. I will admit I cringed a few times after some of the unexpected violence. But I thought some of it was creative even if it was a little gruesome. Unfortunately, after so much of it, I felt a little immune. Like, "Oh, he just got shot? Big whoop. That's nothin'."
4) The Factions. There are five factions (you can read in description of the book above). While I don't think they were perfect, nor could I remember what a couple of them meant and had to keep flipping back, I thought the idea was good. Was it a little Hunger Games-esque? Maybe. I liked that they could choose to leave their faction, though. I also liked the idea of the factionless...people just wandering around with the craptastic jobs because they couldn't hack it in one of the factions. Too bad, so sad (geez...maybe I should be Dauntless!).
Here is what I didn't like:
The last 5% of the book (I'm going off of Kindle percent). I felt like it was all thrown together like a bad action movie.
We must find the processor! REBOOT! REBOOT!
PING! PINGPINGPING! WHIZZZZZZZZZZZZ! OOOMPH! HE SHOT ME!
We rode the train into the sunset. I didn't know where we would go or what we would do. All I knew is that we would be together.
(note this is all simply my interpretation)
To sum it up -
For most of the book, I felt like this:
But by the end I felt a little bit like this:
Still a solid four stars.
And did I mention I still really love this book? Because I do!
Here is what I liked:
1) Tris aka "Our heroine." First of all, I just flat out adore the name Tris. I liked her for all her strenghs and weaknesses alike. I like how she was conflicted and not perfect. I liked that she wasn't a badass right away and really grew into the girl she was by the end of the book through her experiences with the Dauntless (but also using lessons learned from her past). I liked that her thoughts didn't 100% revolve around boys.
2) Four aka "The Love Interest." And the love interest with good reason. He is good looking in what I imagine to be a brooding way. He is brave and masculine but not a brute. He is intelligent and mysterious. My only complaint is learning his name. I really just want him to be referred to as Four only. It's so much cooler.
3) The Violence. I will admit I cringed a few times after some of the unexpected violence. But I thought some of it was creative even if it was a little gruesome. Unfortunately, after so much of it, I felt a little immune. Like, "Oh, he just got shot? Big whoop. That's nothin'."
4) The Factions. There are five factions (you can read in description of the book above). While I don't think they were perfect, nor could I remember what a couple of them meant and had to keep flipping back, I thought the idea was good. Was it a little Hunger Games-esque? Maybe. I liked that they could choose to leave their faction, though. I also liked the idea of the factionless...people just wandering around with the craptastic jobs because they couldn't hack it in one of the factions. Too bad, so sad (geez...maybe I should be Dauntless!).
Here is what I didn't like:
The last 5% of the book (I'm going off of Kindle percent). I felt like it was all thrown together like a bad action movie.
We must find the processor! REBOOT! REBOOT!
PING! PINGPINGPING! WHIZZZZZZZZZZZZ! OOOMPH! HE SHOT ME!
We rode the train into the sunset. I didn't know where we would go or what we would do. All I knew is that we would be together.
(note this is all simply my interpretation)
To sum it up -
For most of the book, I felt like this:
But by the end I felt a little bit like this:
Still a solid four stars.
And did I mention I still really love this book? Because I do!