This is a great start to a great trilogy. Beatrice Prior lives in a futuristic version of Chicago. The world as she knows it is divided into five parts which are called factions. Each faction values a different trait. Abnegation, where Beatrice was born and brought up along with her brother Caleb, is the home of the selfless. Dauntless, a city of black clothed rebels, values the brave. The faction of Erudite houses the wise and intelligent. Candor is the place for honest and truthful people, and Amity is full of peaceful humans. On every child's sixteenth birthday, they choose what faction they will spend the rest of their life in, although first they must take a test to determine which faction they ultimately belong in and are most likely to choose. But Beatrice's results come back inconclusive. They call this Divergent, which means you cannot be controlled. When Beatrice makes the choice of a different faction and renames herself Tris, she must get through a new life that contains many ups, downs and new people, and save civilization as she knows it in the end.

LOVE IT!

What really stinks is I have no friends who have read it so I have nobody to rant to about how {blank so I don't spoil} died!!!

RICK RIORDAN IS MY FAVORITE AUTHOR OF. ALL. TIME! I read Kane Chronicles and then this all but Blood of Olympus which by the way is taking WAY TOO LONG!

This is a great start to a great trilogy. Beatrice Prior lives in a futuristic version of Chicago. The world as she knows it is divided into five parts which are called factions. Each faction values a different trait. Abnegation, where Beatrice was born and brought up along with her brother Caleb, is the home of the selfless. Dauntless, a city of black clothed rebels, values the brave. The faction of Erudite houses the wise and intelligent. Candor is the place for honest and truthful people, and Amity is full of peaceful humans. On every child's sixteenth birthday, they choose what faction they will spend the rest of their life in, although first they must take a test to determine which faction they ultimately belong in and are most likely to choose. But Beatrice's results come back inconclusive. They call this Divergent, which means you cannot be controlled. When Beatrice makes the choice of a different faction and renames herself Tris, she must get through a new life that contains many ups, downs and new people, and save civilization as she knows it in the end.