blueygurl2016 's review for:

Divergent by Veronica Roth

4.0

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This is one of those books that I don’t really know how to rate lol. I was sucked in and read it very quickly given how long it was and immediately bought the sequel on Apple Books lol… but rereading as a more solid adult who’s read a lot more and thought more and grown since I’ve last read Divergent, the world, until explained a bit further by the author in the special edition on Apple Books I bought, I thought it was kinda ridiculous to have a world based on literally FIVE personality traits and do away with the people who have more. Like people are a lot more well rounded than that generally. On any given day depending on the circumstance, I could be any of the factions. But as explained by her author’s note, it is a way of controlling them, basically, hive mind. That is never really explained in the book. It would make more sense if it was explained in the book. But that wasn’t a necessarily something I thought about as a teen so I get it. It’s a bit annoying as an adult though lol. But the action and adrenaline junkie stuff is definitely fun to read. And also I felt like her characterization was pretty good overall even though Tris is kinda the standard kick butt female YA character, but she has flaws and is aware of those flaws and I like that.