Divergent- Veronica Roth

If you loved The Hunger Games, you will like this book.

*4 Stars*

The reason I read it in the first place was down to the fact that it is in the same genre as The Hunger Games and seemed like something I would enjoy, which I did.

It has the similar post-end-of-the-world setting as Suzanne Collins' does but obviously the plot is slightly different.
Society is made up of five pre-determined factions which define your identity. At the age of 16 Beatrice Prior must decide which one she will be in. This decision is made a lot harder when she realises that she doesn't fit in to one alone and this could kill her.

Beatrice (Tris) decides that she will move from her own faction the abnegation,  the selfless, to the dauntless, the brave. She starts her training, performing tasks that would terrify many in order to determine her place in the very competitive rankings. It starts off as a journey of finding out who she is and what she is while facing her fears and bully's at the same time.  The adventure side of the novel is good but then of course there had to be the slightly unbelievable romance between main character Tris and her trainer Four. This romance slightly ruined the rest of the book for me as it felt forced and completely unnecessary.

The second half of the book suddenly changes in to an inevitable uprising against the leaders of Dauntless and their plans for the future of this faction fuelled world.  Although this was a very quick change, the book was losing momentum and this brought the pace quickly back up to its un-putdownable speed.

Overall I really enjoyed the book, it was very readable and I didn't want to put it down. Which is always good.