Veronica Roth: Divergent Review

Okay so with the movie coming up I felt like I just HAD to read this book... It started off with me watching the movie trailer and going like: 'hmm, this looks like a nice movie..."
So after a while, I got myself the book and it was just so funny to see all the pieces of the trailer just come together throughout the book!

Every scene is an actual part from the book and really well remade! But, when you haven't read the book, the trailer looks like something completely diffrent and doesn't get the real story across because it's all put in the wrong context.

Let me explain the book a little bit. The book is about this girl, Beatrice Prior. She lives in a world where, because of a constant thread of war, the inhabitants have decided to change how people live by dividing them into diffrent groups, with diffrent needs and desires.
In total, there are 5 Factions, as they call it.
 1. Abnegation. They're all about being selfless and doing the best thing for others.
 2. Erudite. They're the smart people.
 3. Dauntless.  Though stuff, and overcoming fear.
 4. Amity. Peacefull.
 5. Candor. Truth.

Beatrice is originally Abnegation but feels like she can't be selfless enough. She takes the test to tell her what she is, but turns out she's capable of being more then one thing! They call this Divergent, but she's not allowed to tell anyone because the leaders of each faction want these kind of people dead.
She joins Dauntless and this is what the book is mostly about. Her journey through the initiation in this faction.

the way I saw it when I watched the movie trailer, she joined some kind of rebellion straight away because  she's Divergent. Well I was wrong...

The book was really awesome. Beatrice is a really strong character and socially a little bit awkward. It's like we're sisters already... Okay maybe I'm going a bit to fast LoL.
It's funny how, in the book you see so much that you could see in real life if you'd just open your eyes to it. There's a passage where someone says: "I want to be brave and selfless and smart and kind and honest. I don't just want to be one thing."
And then you start to wonder where you'd belong in. I noticed I immidiately thought, all people in our world belong with the Divergents because we were raised that way. But I immediately had to change my mind.
Because after all, a lot of people have a one track mind when it comes to this sort of thing.

Anyway back to the book!
I like Roth's writing style a lot, but, the one thing that annoyed me so much was that she kept jumping from one event to the other.. As if she wasn't entirely sure whether she wants to describe everything with a lot of details or not spend to much time with all of it.
this caused certain parts to be very elaborate and then others, really shortly and just like skipping days. It was weird...

The story was very well thought about and the character had an awesome personality. There are some hunky guys and a love story that doesn't dominate the entire story.
A good book worth 7.9/10!

I can't wait to read part two and know how it continues!
P.S.: I'm using the before movie book cover, now a lot of the copies will be with the movie cover!
P.P.S.: I took the test and apperantly I'm Dauntless.. Not sure I agree I'm scared of my own shadow 99% of the time xD

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P.C. Cast: Devine by Choice Review.

After reading the first book in the series, I had to read the second. Simply because I can't stand unfinished series. I'm serious, I can't... It's like walking in a desert and suddenly finding a fresh bottle of water and only taking one tiny little sip of it. Impossible right?

Okay anyway, back to the book. I'm not sure what I have to say about this book. It feels like very little happening over A LOT of pages... I love Shannon though and she does make a great character and she cares so much! But the story feels like it's spread to thin over too many pages. It would've been a lot nicer to read if it'd been shorter so the time between action doesn't feel so long and start being boring.

A lot of people have gone about the forums to smack this book down saying "sex sells". That is so not true for this book. I guess that a lot of P.C. Cast readers (or atleast the ones that have read the Goddess Summoning series) expect a realy juicy book with little story line in it. I must say they probably got a little bit disapointed, but when you read the book for the story, it's a nice book and you'll enjoy it.
But as I said in the first book, you'll probably want to read it in pieces and not all at once. (Although that's not what I did, I just started in it today and read it). What I kept feeling in this book, was that it was easy to put it down. Like I was in the story but it was easy to get back out of it, if that makes any sense to any of you.

I also felt as if my bond with ClanFintan was just disapearing; People who've read the book will understand what I mean. He just sort of feels like a stranger at the end of the book.

This book was so much better then I expected reading all the other reviews on loads of websites saying this book should've never been made etc.
This book gets a 7.5/10.

P.S.: the back cover of the book totaly presented a wrong name for Rhiannon, calling her Rhiana... Should this even be possible? Seriously debating taking the points for this book down because of this....

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P.C. Cast: Divine by mistake Review

This is the first book in P.C. Cast's 'Divine'-series. The book is about and English teacher from Oklahoma, Shannon Parker. She gets thrown into a magical world where all the people are images of people from her old world.
But as if adjusting to this new life style wasn't enough, she finds out that her mirror image, Rhiannon, was an absolute joke. She was a bitch to everyone and lets say that her entire guard knew her very 'personally'. She was so selfish that, when she saw an oncomming threat and realized that she was supposed to marry a centaur, she fled her world and put Shannon there in her place.

This book was magical and I just had to read it all page after page. Until a certain point in the book. About 3/4, maybe a bit more to the middle. I just needed to take a little break from the book and I did. But after that little break I started right where I left it and continued right to the end in one go.
I suggest reading this book bit by bit and not all of it at once.

The end of the book really got me interested in book 2 and 3. The cover art is really nice. Normally I don't metion this, but this time I really felt like there was A LOT of work put into it.

Besides, I never concidered a centaur as potential partner before.. Turns out they can be very.. Persuasive!!

So besides the little break I needed this book was good and made me warm for more. But I see it as a little bit of a problem for people who are less intend on reading a book to the very last page. Maybe it's more because I read when I have time to read the entire book and hate to read in little parts. People who'll read a chapter or two each day before going to bed, should be able to finish it without the little midbook-boredom.
This book gets a 7.5/10 mostly because I can't stand that I got bored halfway the book. If that hadn't been in there, this book would've had a top score.

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