Friday 22 February 2013

Divergent


Book Title: Divergent
Author: Veronica Roth
Series: Divergent #1
Date Started: February 20th 2013
Date Completed: February 22nd 2013
Genres: Adventure, Thriller, Romance, Mystery, Dystopian, Action
Rating: Five stars
Review:

I can't. It's so perfect.
At first, I thought it was going to be one of those romance-centered fantasy novels that was alright but something I wasn't going to be particularly enthusiastic about.
Oh how wrong I was.

I loved this book. So much. Yes, there is romance. But it's the kind that grows slowly and the plot and story of the book isn't revolving around that love. The romance is part of the story, but there are other, more important parts that make this book amazing.
There's action and rebellion and plot twists and everything you could possibly want from a dystopian novel.
I particularly loved that fact that the main character, Tris, is not a very nice person. I love characters that are believable (for example Katniss in the Hunger Games - she wasn't a good person, but that made her more real in my eyes). Tris is selfish, but she's brave and that plays a very large part in this story.
There are several parts I did not see coming, which was just brilliant, and by the end, my heart was literally on the floor, torn into a million pieces and bleeding everywhere.
I like books that make me feel for the characters, which is very hard to do in my case. But this book did it perfectly.



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