Divergent

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• Divergent

  La presentazione e le recensioni di Divergent, opera di Veronica Roth edita da De Agostini. Dopo la firma della Grande Pace, Chicago è suddivisa in cinque fazioni consacrate ognuna a un valore: la sapienza per gli Eruditi, il coraggio per gli Intrepi ... (read full critics)

  Qlibri published on Fri, 30 Mar 2012

• Making a fateful choice

  Beatrice Prior is about to leave her prior life behind. She loves her family and their tightly controlled life, but individuality and freedom are calling. In Beatrice’s dystopian Chicago, every 16-year-old must choose their “faction” and devote thems ... (read full critics)

  bookpage published on Sat, 24 Mar 2012

4 Reviews

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  Similar to hunger games, but much worse

  This book has many similarities with Hunger Games: present time, first person telling, young adult girl is the protagonist, a dystopic age...
  Unfortunately, if you hope this means it nears its best seller competitor, you'll likely be disappointed.

  The main flaw of the book is in its premise. The di ... (continue)

  This book has many similarities with Hunger Games: present time, first person telling, young adult girl is the protagonist, a dystopic age...
  Unfortunately, if you hope this means it nears its best seller competitor, you'll likely be disappointed.

  The main flaw of the book is in its premise. The division of people in factions based on different primary instinct is both a sociological nonsense and a plot hazard: fiction should be at least *plausible* and everything coming out of this premise feels somehow flawed.

  The plot is confined to a single city but the characters don't seem to be interested in what happened to the whole world (or even in nearby cities) nor the author give hints about that. You only get to know that they have to defend the city boundaries, stop.
  Characters are not so bad described, but it takes ages to feel involved in the plot. It took around 40% of the book to hook me.
  Also, despite all main characters are supposed to be spread out in the big city, they continuously end up stumbling in each other. You wonder how many people is there around...
  Moreover, sadly, the city is sadly recognizable as a well known U.S. state capital. I wonder why U.S. authors so often feel the urgency to place their story within north america when it is not necessary at all.

  The storytelling generally is not as fast paced as in hunger games, and this is good, but characters tend to repeat many times their cliches along the book, and they tend to appear boring.

  However, what disappointed me most is that in the kindle version the book finishes at 95% and you're given a non-asked sample of the sequel in the last pages. I hate this expecially because I can already get free samples of books via kindle and I don't like authors "pushing" for purchases.

  That said, what I really liked is the idea behind the "divergent" being, so much needed even nowadays and so less frequent among people.

  I am a little tempted to know how the story developes in the trilogy, but because of all the flaws i'll think twice before getting the sequel.

  I've read the book in Kindle and my first language is not english, just in case you wonder about all the grammar errors above.

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  Lanz said on Jun 3, 2012 | Add your feedback

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  I really enjoyed reading this, couldn't put it down. It's set in a dystopian society where a teenage girl is forced to make choices and stand up for herself, and along the way she learns more about herself and finds her way.

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  fuzziwuzzi said on Apr 14, 2012 | Add your feedback

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  Faction Before Blood

  I'm giving my copy away to a good home check out the details here http://readinhouston.blogspot.com/2012/03/book-giveaway…

  - Divergent -
  One girl's next few decisions will define her life.

  Check out my review of Veronica Roth's debut novel, Divergent.
  Rating: C

  http://readinhoust ... (continue)

  I'm giving my copy away to a good home check out the details here http://readinhouston.blogspot.com/2012/03/book-giveaway…

  - Divergent -
  One girl's next few decisions will define her life.

  Check out my review of Veronica Roth's debut novel, Divergent.
  Rating: C

  http://readinhouston.blogspot.com/2012/03/divergent.htm…

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  Kamatherly said on Mar 7, 2012 | Add your feedback

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  Don’t get me wrong here. I loved the plot. It had a lot of potential to be something as interesting and intriguing as The Hunger Games. The five factions was indeed interesting, and I liked how you had to choose which faction to devote to for the rest of your life. So this part was all great and dan ... (continue)

  Don’t get me wrong here. I loved the plot. It had a lot of potential to be something as interesting and intriguing as The Hunger Games. The five factions was indeed interesting, and I liked how you had to choose which faction to devote to for the rest of your life. So this part was all great and dandy. Then it falls short. So, I ask why is Chicago divided into these factions? what happened? why are these factions divided into these virtues? how did it all start? what about the factionless? how many belong there? why are they outcasted like that? etc etc... the list of questions started to get longer, and longer. Then it hit me, there is NO world building in the book. There is no background information. You’re smack in the middle of a dystopia and you don’t know how the setting got there. This bugged me. Immensely. I like my background information. If it’s going to be where it will all be explained in other future novels, then that’s silly. What’s the point of the first novel then? the first novel in a series is to explain how the setting came to be.

  So you’re thrown in with Beatrice, who learns how to survive in the faction she chose. This part of the book wasn’t so bad, I enjoyed learning how they struggled to survive to be part of the faction. She undergoes a complete transformation, which, makes sense. Yet, this cliche where a nice meek girl who’s bored of her faction, joins another one and becomes an ultra bad girl who can fight, talk back, manages to get several tattoos and gets a complete makeover is overdone and cheesy. I tolerated this only because I somewhat liked how she managed to fight back against her bullies - so she does have a spine, and she doesn’t whine about it. Oh and let’s not GO THERE where she becomes a female version of Rambo and suddenly becomes the Girl of Steel. This could become a B movie any time now.

  Then Four arrives into the story. By Jeebus what is it with current YA novels where names or nicknames are just utterly ridiculous? I understand, it does make sense once it’s been revealed why he’s called that but what? so the characters just didn’t have enough creativity to make up a better nickname than bloody Four?!.

  I’d have to say, the characters in this book aren’t necessarily likable. I tried to like Tris, and I did at some points of the book her moments of revenge were quite satisfying. I couldn’t like Four at all because I felt he was just a cardboard character and a typical “hard but soft in the inside” personality. The romance between the two of them wasn’t working for me. They had no chemistry and it got to the point where it became supremely cheesy and almost nauseating to read both of them get all lovey dovey. It just did not work for me.

  I don’t know if I’m going to read further into the series. I really did like the plot. It was a good idea and had lots of potential. Yet it wasn’t executed as well as I thought. The REAL action does not start until much much later in the novel so I wonder was 500 pages really necessary for this book? The ending, was cheesy, so cheesy you could use it to make nachos. The characters weren’t so likable and the romance just did not have the chemistry required. I’d have to say, this hasn’t topped The Hunger Games, and I stress to readers out there to read Hunger Games instead of this one. It’s so much better. I can’t believe the hype over this book, then again, maybe it’s best not to believe in all the hype after all.

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  Sensitivemuse said on Sep 11, 2011 | Add your feedback

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• Others 384 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0062024027
• ISBN-13: 9780062024022
• Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
• Pub date: May 03, 2011
• Also available as: Paperback and eBook
• In other languages: other languages Deutsche Bücher, Libros en Español, llibres en català, Libri Italiani, Nederlandse Boeken

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