Tuesday, August 6, 2013

BOOK OF THE MONTH: [August 2013] - DIVERGENT By Veronica Roth

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The uber successful young adult book series DIVERGENT by Veronica Roth has been catapulted into an international sensation. The popular book series is now a motion picture, set to release in 2014. I'm excited to delve into this series and find out what all the fuss is about.

So, the book of the month choice for this month [August] is DIVERGENT by Veronica Roth. Also be sure to grab the second book in the series, INSURGENT and pre-order the third installment titled ALLEGIANT, due on bookshelves October 22, 2013.




 Synopsis:
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.

Debut author Veronica Roth bursts onto the YA scene with the first book in the Divergent series—dystopian thrillers filled with electrifying decisions, heartbreaking betrayals, stunning consequences, and unexpected romance.