Author Topic: Divergent "Veronic Roth"  (Read 2150 times)

childoftyranny

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on: August 17, 2011, 10:45:53 PM
I finished listening to this one yesterday and I have to say I did enjoy this one. There is something that felt right about people trying to form a Utopia based on virtues such as courage, honesty, and curiosity. It felt equally right the society would break down since people aren't that likely to really live based on one concept or virtue, to say nothing of the dog, I mean ambition.

I liked the protagonist, while perhaps a little whiney at first she actually grew out of it, embracing what it meant to mature within the bounds of her society. For once, I think a novel, a YA novel, actually had the right amount of angst in it. Dealing with leaving family, the requirements of society and then more than most deal with as you are deeply tugged into a plot to change the society for the worst. It wasn't an easy journey, but she also didn't spend 105% of whining about how unfair life is, like some protagonists from a story about a sword that isn't about lying.