Divergent by Veronica Roth book review!

I think it's only fair to start my book reviews with my favorite above all books right now.

It's name is.....Divergent!

In Beatrice Prior’s dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is—she can’t have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.

During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris, and struggles alongside her fellow initiates to live out the choice they have made. Together, they must undergo extreme physical tests of endurance and intense psychological simulations, some with devastating consequences. As initiation transforms them all, Tris must determine who her friends really are—and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes-fascinating, sometimes-exasperating boy fits into the life she’s chosen. But Tris also has a secret: one she’s kept hidden from everyone, because she’s been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers unrest and growing conflict that threatens to unravel her seemingly-perfect society, she also learns that her secret might be what helps her save those she loves . . . or it might be what destroys her.

(Source is Veronica Roth's official website: http://veronicarothbooks.blogspot.com/2010/09/divergent-cover-and-summary.html
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I'm proud to say that I was one of the many lucky readers who discovered it (well, actually my mom discovered it) before it became really famous.

But biased I am not. This book is completely worth everyone's valuable time and gets exponentially better every time I have read it (that's three times)!

You know that horrible feeling when a book that has been visible to the media for a while and has an enormous fan-base is completely bland and boring in the beginning of the book when the real story begins 3/4 into the book? Ok, forget that. Throw all those negative expectations in the trashcan (or recycle, let's be green)! The book punches you in the face from the get-go. Thirty pages in, there was never a dull moment.

Let me tell you, if I had any doubts about this book during the aptitude tests, all that was demolished in the train-jumping scenes and Stage One of Initiation. My heart pounded during every single chapter and I hurt ( was physically in pain) when I had to put the book down to eat or shower.

I read the book while on summer vacation last year and it really made my week! My parents are living, breathing truth that when you tear someone away from their baby ( AKA, this book), they get incredibley grouchy.

Please pick up this book. Just please. You won't regret it. It has some intense fighting scenes, really powerful romance, and interesting psychological tests.

P.S. There's a guy named Four.



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