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 threaten to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves . . . or it might destroy her.

Debut author Veronica Roth bursts onto the YA scene with the first book in the Divergent series—dystopian thrillers filled with electrifying decisions, heartbreaking betrayals, stunning consequences, and unexpected romance.

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Arrived yesterday - thank you very much! I see that there's a movie coming out this week(!), so I should try to read & release it soon.

Here's another copy on my BookCrossing shelf.

I'm glad I don't live in Tris's world; having to make a choice like that at sixteen would have been really difficult. Even now, if I had to choose just one of those characteristics to focus the rest of my life around, it wouldn't be an easy choice.

Still, I'm glad I read the book, and I'd be willing to read the sequels if I happen across them. Thanks again to etherea for sharing this with me!

To our TOC get-together at Romano's; probably for purple58 to release at the Y for World Book Night.

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