Every Labour Day Weekend for the last five or six years, we've gone camping. It's become a tradition of mine to see how many books I can read over three or four days. I've packed seven books, and in light of the movie being released, the first book I read was Divergent.Maybe I'm a little bit bias...
Oooo...new book addiction! As usual the first book of the series was the best!
*Does not count as a book for the year*Super quick read, like 13 pages of text. Found it on the internet when I realized it existed, to complete my reading in the Divergent universe. I'm confused why this story exists, and was apparently written before Four was published (?), but didn't make it i...
It tells about Tobias Eaton's life right before and after he chose Dauntless in the Choosing Ceremony. How he got 'Four' as his new nickname from his initiation instructor, Amar.It's about self-conflict and inner choice. In this novel, Tori wisely advise Four: “You're the one who has to live with...
Enjoyable as light reading but don't expect anything groundbreaking or any shocking revelations. As a rule, if you're going to introduce back stories to existing characters, you want that story to expand the character in some way. Unfortunately in these stories you get exactly what you'd expect f...
Reviewed by Lori D.I’ll admit that I hadn’t even known about Veronica Roth’s Divergent series until seeing a movie trailer for the upcoming film based on the first of the books, Divergent. Being young adult fiction, all three books make for an easy read, and are fast-paced, dystopian thrillers th...
It's a free book on iBooks (iOS) and Kindle (Amazon), so what's to lose?It was really clever, but it threw me a bit. I had just read the whole Divergent series and I was pretty satisfied with those books (all of them got high ratings from me). When I read Free Four, I kept thinking it was written...
Hooray Four has his voice back! I just loved these stories, and honestly after the disaster that was Allegiant (which even i thought was really terrible, and ive been a massive fan of this series for years) where despite writing chapters from Four's POV, Roth somehow entirely lost his identity.. ...
Story in the perspective of the mysterious guy, now that's interesting. And fast paced. Something to even die for. Four, Tobias either way even his narratives are like him, cautious, calculating and brilliant. I think I would have loved divergent in a whole new level if it was Four instead of Tri...
Ugggh...let's just start out by saying that this was a half-decent book. For someone who doesn't like Four in Divergent or in the movie adaptation,I was surprised at how much I grew to like him from this story. The plot would not make a whole lot of sense, however, if you had not read Divergent f...
I couldn't resist giving Four a 4/5 stars... But REALLY, Four deserved it. I am not one to purchase side novella books/stories, but this was an exception.Veronica showed large improvement in writing with the stories. Often times in Allegiant it was hard to distinguish which POV was whom, but in F...
I'm helpless to these dystopian society books, which is why I've replaced reading these first two books instead of sleeping the last two nights. The themes of identity were creative with the division of society into personality types-I can see the adolescent draw to this particular plot. It's cle...
There's something that bothers me which is in the first book tori says that divergence in rare yet in both books there's so much people who are divergent like tris Tobias, Marcus, tris's mom, Uriah, that whole group that got kidnapped by Eric, Tori's brother, and I think someone else and that bot...
Amar says as I approach the group. “Here, I’ll get you your vest, Tris.” “My . . . vest?” As promised by David yesterday, I’m going to the fringe this afternoon. I don’t know what to expect, which usually makes me nervous, but I’m too worn-out from the past few days to feel much of anything. “Bul...
I focus on the path of the broom, keeping my eyes on the dust that collects between glass fragments. My muscles remember the movement before the rest of me does, but when I look down, instead of dark marble I see plain white tile and the bottom of a light gray wall; I see strands of blond hair th...
My lip stings, and when I take my hand away from it, there is blood on my fingertips. I must have bitten it during the test. The Dauntless woman administering my aptitude test—Tori, she said her name was—gives me a strange look as she pulls her black hair back and ties it in a knot. Her arms are ...
But I wait, kept awake by the thought of bodies hitting pavement, until his grip loosens and his breathing steadies. I will not let Tobias go to Erudite when it happens again, when someone else dies. I will not. I slip out of his arms. I shrug on one of his sweatshirts so I can carry the smell of...
This was the first place I ever felt strong. Every time I breathe this air I feel it again. At one end of the room is a slab of wood with a target painted on it. Against one wall is a table covered with throwing knives—ugly metal instruments with a hole at one end, perfect for inexperienced...