Wow. This book was interesting, fast-paced and extremely easy to read. It's another YA survival fantasy of a future earth. This time, with no explanations, the idea is that people are divided into five groups, abnegation, dauntless, candor, amity, and erudite. Just those groups will teach some vocabulary right there. The people in each group behave in ways that define the group in order for there to be "peace on earth". At age 16, the youth will take a test and choose which group they wish to join. In reality, not everyone fits these groups and the "peace" is tenuous. Hence the "divergent"
It sounds like a really stupid premise, but after you get past that, it is really engaging. There is a lot of fighting and violence. The main character Tris has chosen Dauntless as her group. The reader learns things as she does. It won't make as good a movie, but it is every bit as interesting as the Hunger Games. There can easily be a sequel.
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