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