This book is absolutely, without question, food for the starving Hunger Games crowd.Basic plot: dystopian future Chicago. Society has split into five factions, each of which is named for its dominant characteristic: Dauntless, Amity, Candor, Erudite, and Abnegation. At age 16, all kids get tested to see what their aptitudes are - most kids align with and stay in their faction, but some switch based on their test results. Occasionally, someone turns out to be divergent, or have aptitudes of more than one faction. So it is with Beatrice, who (MINOR SPOILER ALERT) chooses to leave her Abnegation family and become a Dauntless, at a ceremony similar to Harry Potter's sorting ceremony.
This book, the first in the trilogy, follows Tris, as she has renamed herself, as she struggles to make her way in her new faction, and discovers some of the schemes of the political leaders.
As I said, it's great reading if you're looking for easy, kid stuff. Entertaining, easy, fun, in a sick and twisted kind of way.
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