Review Detail

When I first heard about how much hype that this book was getting, I knew that I really wanted to read it. The plot seemed exactly like something that would interest me, so after reading some reviews online, I decided to get it. Am I glad I did! This book was awesome!

This story follows the life of sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior before she chooses her faction and everything after that. ?However, Beatrice isn't just your normal character, we soon find out that there is something special about her, which is what we gradually learn about throughout the book. Probably my favourite thing about this book are the characters. They are very distinct and easy to remember. Beatrice is a really strong female character, which is something I love. Also, we meet other characters such as Caleb, Beatrice's brother, and her faction friends Christina, Al, Will, Uriah, and many others. Four and Eric, their trainers, are also very well written. I love Four's story.


The writing of this book is also great. There were some nice, memorable quotes in the novel. Also, I thought that the whole concept of factions was great. Each faction is so different! I have to say that I love what the Dauntless value. They believe in facing their fears which is very brave and makes for a great story. Veronica Roth created a very believable world that I loved reading about! The factions are meant to divide society based on each person's beliefs. This is explained a bit in the book so I don't want to talk too much about it, but basically, this is meant to sustain peace in the society. Additionally, this book had a really nice flow. Things were constantly happening. It didn't move too quickly, but that is something I enjoyed. Basically the entire novel is Beatrice's initiation process into her faction of choice. Although Divergent is almost 500 pages, there weren't too many words on each page, and the story was gripping, so it felt like I read it in no time.


The only one issue that I had with this book was the end. I don't want to give much away, but I'm sure the end was supposed to be more emotional for me than it was. I think this was because I wasn't able to build strong enough connections with certain characters in order to really understand them. These characters I thought were not spoken about too much, so I didn't really feel a strong bond to them. This being said, I really don't think this was too much of a problem.

All in all, this book was great! I would definitely recommend this novel to others, and I think that this book has been my favourite of the summer so far. I read it about a month ago, but Divergent is just one of those books that you keep thinking about, so it is still fresh in my mind. I am really looking forward to the next book, Insurgent, as Veronica Roth is writing a trilogy! Yay!