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People have been telling me to read this series since the first book came out.\u00a0 And, although I trust the opinions of the people who kept recommending it, I kept thinking about how often I get frustrated waiting for the next books to come out in all the series I read.\u00a0 I get so caught up in the characters that waiting for the next book in a series is like waiting to reunite with a friend who just moved away and won\u2019t be home to visit for at least another year.\u00a0 I don\u2019t get desperate, per se, but it\u2019s not fun to have to keep on waiting all the time!\u00a0 So, I purposely waited to even get started.\u00a0 For real.\u00a0 I just refused to start this series until I knew the third book was almost out.\u00a0 And, boy, am I glad I decided to wait!<\/p>\n
Beatrice Prior was born into a society divided into five factions \u2014 Abnegation (the selfless), Amity (the peaceful), Candor (the honest), Dauntless (the brave), and Erudite (the intelligent).\u00a0 Although she was born into Abnegation, her society came up with a selection process by which teens could choose to stay in their given faction or to move to a different faction.\u00a0 In preparation for making her choice, Beatrice went through a simulation that was supposed to narrow down which faction would be the best fit.\u00a0 Something went wrong, though, and Beatrice\u2019s test proctor informed her that her test results were anything but definitive; Beatrice was Divergent.\u00a0 She didn\u2019t know what it meant, but the proctor made it quite clear that being Divergent was dangerous and that Beatrice should not tell anyone about her results.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know that I can summarize the rest of the series without getting into spoilers, so I will just wrap things up by saying that fans of other dystopias like The Hunger Games<\/em><\/a> and Delirium<\/em><\/a> will not be disappointed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" People have been telling me to read this series since the first book came out.\u00a0 And, although I trust the opinions of the people who kept recommending it, I kept thinking about how often I get frustrated waiting for the next books to come out in all the series I read.\u00a0 I get so caught … Continue reading Divergent [trilogy] by Veronica Roth<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-young-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-chrissie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}