emcasmith 's review for:

The Fates Divide by Veronica Roth
5.0

Despite my last review being rounded up, this one definitely earned its 5 stars.

Again, one of my favorite things about this book was its’ seamless integration of characters. I LOVED the Cisi and Eijeh chapters - especially Eijeh - and they were written in such a way that it was easy for me to distinguish those characters’ voices from our main protagonists. Even with the first new character chapter, I was immersed totally in their way of thinking.

The HUGE plot twist in the middle of the book had me audibly saying, “what is the point?” and had me returning to a state of frustration that I usually feel in YA books - the plot twist that makes our main characters act uncharacteristically. However, as I kept reading, I realized that my assumption was incorrect; in fact, many of the themes that were found in this book first took light in the first novel (thank goodness I read them back to back).

I absolutely 100% finished this book in 24 hours— I was that hooked. Thank you, Roth, for triggering this hunger to read once more.