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I'm still trying to process my 29th book. I know I loved this book and I know it will go down as one of my all time favorites, but I cannot put my thoughts together to describe it. I should have known from the beginning that would love because every time I would see something about it, I would pass it by. It didn't appeal to me at first, second, third.... glance. I know you shouldn't judge a book by it's cover but I always do, and I am almost always right. I can just about always tell if I will enjoy a book by looking at it's cover. But there are times when I have been wrong... I passed Twilight up for a year before giving in and buying it and then it sat on my shelf, unread, for a few more months. It still hadn't become the crazy obsession around the world, when I first read it, but it did become an obsession for me. I'm sure there have been others as well, but none stick out in my mind. Divergent didn't seem like something I wanted to read. I hadn't even read the description on the book before deciding to push it aside. Then one day I was going through my list of debut authors to read this year (I do one for each month) and decided my May book didn't sound exciting enough so I started looking at others and I realized that Divergent was definitely the book I wanted to read in May.

It was more than I thought it would be, and written by a 22 year old, unbelievable! It reminded me of a mix of The Giver, The Hunger Games, Matched, and Harry Potter (except instead of houses in a school, people are sorted into factions). The whole point of the story is that people are forced to choose one faction, one way of life, one basic personality characteristic... when in reality, all 5 factions are inside each person. Everyone is Divergent but have had it drilled into them everyday since birth that you can only be one. I have fully fallen in love with both Tris and Tobias. Wishing I could be like Tris and wishing I could be with Tobias. Every character had it's own personality, no one blended into the scenery, not even the characters who wanted to.
Through every chapter my stomach was in my throat, not only during the action packed scenes but also every time Tris and Tobias got close to each other. It was very hard to put this book down.

Reading over what I just wrote I realize it does the book no justice. I still can't seem to process my thoughts on this book. There is no word on when the next book will be coming out, not even a title to it yet. But it has been optioned for a movie, I hope they make it well.