I Am Divergent….actually, I'm not, I'm abnegation –
thanks buzz feed.
But the reason I took the quiz was because I’ve
fallen for a new heroine. Since The
Hunger Games I’ve been looking for something else to fill the YA gap and
although I can’t say that this trilogy does, it’s still really good.
What I do love about this book is Tris, who’s point
of view the books is taken from. I'm
nothing like the best parts of Tris, who is brave and strong. (Sideways
glance at a picture from Kota Kinabalu where I needed to get off the Jet Ski as
I couldn’t stop screaming that I was going to lose grip of Mark). She is the type of hero I wished I read about
when I was a teenager and I think it’s great that so many girls (and boys) can
read about her ‘journey’ and witness a strong female.
This is taken directly from Good Reads description of
the first book in the series, 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 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.
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.
I think I'm still looking for something to really
sink my teeth into which leads me to my next point that seeing as next month is
October, and October means reading Dracula, I'm not rushing to pinterest and
good reads for ideas just yet.
Another small problem I have with finding something
great to read is that I have been banned from adopting new books seeing as our
last set of movers made that 50 meters of books is not really the average. Therefore I need to get books from our local
library and wait in great big long queues or try to find something I want to
read there. But, you know, I'm abnegation,
so I wont complain…..
