Category Archives: 5 Stars

In Beat­rice Prior's dystopian Chicago, 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 to deter­mine who her friends really are—and where, exactly, a romance with a some­times fas­ci­nat­ing, some­times infu­ri­at­ing 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 a grow­ing con­flict that threat­ens 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 lit­er­ary scene with the first book in the Diver­gent series—dystopian thrillers filled with elec­tri­fy­ing deci­sions, heart­break­ing betray­als, stun­ning con­se­quences, and unex­pected romance. Con­tinue read­ing →