I’m Team Amity!
You may remember a little book last year that went on to win scads of awards including Goodreads Choice Award for Favorite Book 2011: DIVERGENT by Veronica Roth! I reviewed DIVERGENT and called it “thoughtful, occasionally horrifying, but always exhilarating, dystopian that I kept in a white-knuckled grip way into the wee hours of the night…[DIVERGENT is an] action packed dystopian thriller that will enrage and delight readers in turn, like every good dystopian should.” So you can imagine there is quite a lot of excitement building for the sequel and it’s about to get even bigger starting today!
HarperTeen is launching a super cool campaign inviting bloggers to become faction initiates. I’m Amity!
The Amity faction values peace and friendship. Artistic, creative, and musical, this faction focuses on peacekeeping, harmony, and farming.
There’s tons of cool stuff on the Amity site, so click and check it out. The faction with the most traffic is going to be rewarded…so let’s make sure Amity comes out on top! More details to come!
his is a series which offers the reader a futuristic United States and turns the workings of the past on its head. Here we find the aftermath of a plot which happened in the end of DIVERGENT and how everyone, Tris in particular, is dealing with it. Politics shift as much as faction thought processes. No one seems trustworthy. Secrets are revealed, and they are some very big secrets. This, in my opinion, is what makes this series a compelling read. At first I was worried that author Veronica Roth would go through the "sophomore slump" some authors go through with a second or third book, but this world is well thought out and brought into bigger scopes. We see more of the other factions, how they work and how their beliefs drive them. It's fascinating.
ReplyDeleteTris is not the girl from the first book. She's very much a hardened warrior now. She's flawed, but this is where her strength come from. I was surprised by the way she spoke and acted sometimes--like I said, she's a very different person. Everything about her felt real; the most compelling thing about her is her attempt to reestablish her relationships with her friends and brother. I still had a hard time digesting her romance with Four. It felt so forced upon the book, not something that happened naturally.