Dr. Sandra Glahn

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Divergent: Meh

I just finished Divergent, the first book in Veronica Roth's bestselling trilogy. And like Hunger Games, it's a dystopian story. It also has a female protagonist. This one is Beatrice "Tris" Prior.
Tris lives in a world with five factions. She begins as a member of Abnegation, the selfless. When she reaches the age at which she can choose on her own, she opts for initiation into Dauntless, the brave. Her brother chooses Erudite, the intelligent. And the other two options are Candor, the honest, and Amity, the peaceful. But what if someone isn't fully one or the other? What if she's divergent?

And do you think the five factions can coexist without any one of them wanting to rule the others? 

I liked this story all right. Kind of meh, but okay. I appreciated that the author figured out a way to make Beatrice a cool name, as Beatrice was my favorite character in Dante's Comedia. But I found myself mentally editing Roth's dialogue tags and improving her verb structure—a phenomenon that didn't happen when I read  The Hunger Games.   
So enough with the dystopian stuff. I have no plans to read the rest of the trilogy. I'm on to real-life brokenness with  Unbroken.