Oh my god READING! How I have missed you! While studying for the bar I hardly read at all, so the first thing I did when I got out of my exam – LITERALLY – was to drive to B&N and pick up a copy of Divergent by Veronica Roth, which we were reading for my book club.
In truth, I was a bit skeptical because the book seemed a lot like the Hunger Games and I thought Roth might be trying to capitalize on HG's success and write a copycat story. I suppose it would be fair to say that the overarching theme is a lot like HG: the setting is this post apocalyptic world, separated into factions that serve different purposes, sixteen year olds must pick their factions and undergo an initiation process that resembles the same level of brutality we saw in the Hunger Games, etc. Plus its also a trilogy, with the other two books yet to be released. However, when I got to the final pages of the book I decided that this book has so much more potential then HG. I loved the first Hunger Games book, the second was still good but was a copycat of the first, and the last I hated. This series has the potential to just keep getting better, and I am really looking forward to the release of the next book.
I also finished Book 12, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I was a little bummed I wasn't able to reread the whole series before the last movie came out but I still hope to reread them all before the new year!
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1 comments:
I've heard good things about this one. Looking forward to it.
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