Divergent by: Veronica Roth

     Divergent is a post apocalyptic novel that starts out as any other book of it's kind, the worst of man kind has been brought out and must be fixed.  Set in  futuristic Chicago, society has been split into five different factions, each with a different characteristic.  They are know as the Dauntless, the brave, Erudite, the intelligent, Candor, the honest, Abnegation, the selfless, and Amity, the friendly.  When you are sixteen   you take an aptitude test to decide which of these factions you belong to, and then chose which one you want to spend the rest of your life in.  Although these results are not always conclusive, as the main character, Beatrice Prior, soon finds out, these people are known as Divergent, and that can be dangerous.

      Even though these people may belong to more than one faction they  can only be part of one.  This makes Beatrice's decision very hard.  She could stay with her family in the Abnegation compound or go find a life someplace else.  The worst part is she can't even talk to family about her situation because no one must know that she is Divergent, and when she goes to the Choosing Ceremony to pick her faction her choice changes her whole life, and let's just say it's not Abnegation.  In her new faction she must learn how to adjust to her new life quickly, and along the way makes a number of friends as well as enemies, especially with a young man who is just simply known as Four.

     I find this book to be very interesting as well as one of my favorites.  At the beginning it sounds just like any other dystopian novel you may have read, but your mind shortly changes with the fact that there is not some all powerful government controlling everyone.  Everyone uses their skills and talents to work together and make a simple peaceful place to live, although it doesn't always stay that way. Also, the way the plot is developed, and the romance that happens in it is made is truly unique.  You know what the one thing is this book doesn't have that most young adult books have these days, a love triangle.  I love the way that this book doesn't have two guys fighting over a clearly confused girl, is has instant chemistry that is made between two characters that is built on through out the book.   You may feel at times that a love triangle is slowly forming but that idea is soon shot down with new events that happen, 'though the product of these events aren't always happy.

     This book makes you see how amazing humans really are and how diversity really shouldn't be taken for granted.  It's all the little things of our personality that add who we are and it is important to have a little of everything.  For example, people in Abnegation are completely selfless and that's really basically all they are.  They take the idea to selflessness to a whole new level.  Seriously, they are not allowed to eat hamburgers or chocolate cake or any thing that is truly delicious because it is considered self indulgent and is thus for selfish, but at times we do need to be a little selfish and think of our needs before others.  We shouldn't center the whole world around us but we still need to keep in mind what we want after all that is one of the many things that make us human.

     Overall this book was really fantastic.  Although, it is pretty gruesome and at times does have a few sexual comments but these parts add to the characters and the overall story line.  This book became a fast favorite of mine and would highly suggest it to any one.  I give it a big fat A+.