Beatrice Prior is about to turn sixteen. This is the day when she has to choose which of the five factions in society she wants to belong to for the rest of her life. Beatrice and her brother have been raised in Abnegation, the self sacrificing and selfless people in society. The other four factions are Erudite (the intellectual, who all seem kind of snobby), Amity (the peaceful and apparently the ones who grow all the food), Candor (the honest, they cannot actually lie) and […]
The one that’s kind of like The Hunger Games, but…not at all
I feel like everyone on the planet has read this book, so I’m not sure what else I can add to the discussion. We all know the story by now: a dystopian Chicago, teenagers who have to choose their faction – and their future as well, the brave young girl who goes against the grain, the realization that we may not all fit in to one neat little box, the older mentor she sort of falls in love with, the sacrifices of the parents. I […]
If everyone belonged to only 1 of 5 categories, which would you be? NONE because that’s ridiculous.
Here’s the next big YA trilogy, the first book of which has already been released to the big screen. It has all the sexy elements a YA dystopian thriller needs to be successful…hot teenagers (going off of the movie trailer a bit on this one)…Ok, wait. Did I just say “hot teenagers”?!? Creepy. I’m way too old to be saying things like that. (I was going to put “waaaaaaaay too old” but no, I’m just “way” too old). Which brings me to my next point, […]
One Choice Will Define You…Or Make You Fall Asleep From Boredom
Allegiant is the last novel in the Divergent young adult trilogy. I picked up the series after a friend told me it was similar to The Hunger Games. Yes, the series are quite similar. Both trilogies are set in America’s near future, after a war of some sort. Both feature heavy handed governments and arbitrarily divided citizens. And of course, both feature a young teen heroine who is just a little bit different or “special” than everyone else. I really enjoyed the first book in Divergent series. It was […]