Divergent

The most compelling book we would like to recommend is called Divergent. We think it is a real page-turner.  The catchy storyline of Veronica Roth is a worldwide bestseller. It is a dystopian fiction; that means it set in the future, in the wake of a terrible war.

In this riveting book society consists of five factions called: Abnegation-the selfless; Dauntless- the brave; Erudite-the intelligent; Candor-the honest and Amity-the peaceful. Each faction has its own duties. At the age of sixteen you have to go through a so-called aptitude test, which finds out who you truly are. To test this, you get injected with a serum that causes a simulation in your head. Normally the test results show one faction, but there are also people whose test results are inconclusive: DIVERGENT

Being a Divergent is extremely dangerous and rare. Powerful people want to get rid of them, because they are said to be a threat to all the other factions. Divergents are immune to the serums, no one can control them against their will.

The main character is Beatrice Prior. She lives with her brother Caleb and her parents Andrew and Nathalie in an Abnegation house. She lives a selfless life, but she doesn’t feel like an Abngation, because she also cares about herself. The aptiudiude test showed her three possible factions: Abnegation, Dauntless and Erudite. The fact that she is sixteen and her inconclusive test results makes it even harder to choose the right faction.

Either she has to leave her family or start a new life in another faction?! But the most important thing for her is to hide that she is DIVERGENT.

The Elite

Book: The book „The Elite” is about a girl named America. Thirty-five girls come to the palace to compete in a selection. Now America is one of the six finalists. The problem is that only one girl is going to marry Prince Maxon and be crowned princess of llléa. At first, America´s parents force here to take part in the selection because if she wins she will automatically be rich. But meanwhile she kind of likes Prince Maxon. But when she is with Aspen her secret first love she feels like she can trust him and she tells him absolutely everything. At the point when America is sure that she has made up her mind, a devastating loss makes her question everything again. And while she is struggling to imagine her future, the monarchy is growing stronger and it plans to destroy America´s chance of any kind of happy ending.

Author: Kiera Cass

Publisher: Harper Teens

Pages: 323

Rating: We give this book 7/10 stars. At the begining the book was a bit boring but if you stick with it and keep on reading, it becomes really interessting We think this book is way more interesting for girls than it is for boys. We really liked the book because it is realistic but at the same time there is a lot of fantasy.