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BOOK REVIEW – The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking #2) by Patrick Ness

August 20, 2014 / / 0 Comments
BOOK REVIEW – The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking #2) by Patrick NessThe Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking #2)
by Patrick Ness
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Re-read with my lovely Jen!!! ♥ ♥ ♥

5 LARGE, AMAZING STARS!!!

Worth every star in the world. (It was SO MUCH MORE FAST PACED THAN I REMEMBER!)

The world that Ness creates is beyond any stretch of imagination I could ever dream of coming up with-I’m seeing that in spades the second time around. So many things I overlooked the first time made the story that much better the second time around. He is an amazing writer and I will forever re-read these books with a huge, masochistic smile on my face…I only hope that maybe someday he will write another set of characters that move me like Todd Hewitt and Viola Eade do-Their story mesmerizes me each and every time I pick up this series…I know it will continue to for the rest of my life. These books aren’t forgettable. They are, in fact, extraordinary, and I feel bad for anyone who has never gotten to immerse themselves into this vivid and candid story. So glad I took the time to re-read the second and third book, because the first time I was so focused on how much I loved book one that I didn’t see how interesting and detailed and merciless these scenes were and how they quite literally took my breath away. I cannot wait to see how I react to book three the second time around-the first time I was a blubbering, incoherent mess-I can only imagine how much worse it will be since I’m even more attached to Todd and Viola after a year of never forgetting them.

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*4.5 Stars*

…Never love something so much it can be used to control you.

After a completely awesome cliffhanger in book one, I was anxious to start book 2 immediately. And while I didn’t have as strong of an affection for TAATA like I did for TKONLG, I still enjoyed it immensely.

Many times the second book in a series is labeled a ‘bridge’ book. After a totally action packed first installment, the second is normally used to throw some wrenches in the plan and make things even more complicated for the H/H-making for a mind-blowing, unputdownable, and unforgettable final book.

I have to say this is the case with TAATA. Viola and Todd are separated. Which already made me sad, but even more than that, there is a war brewing. Everyone is in the clutches of the evil mayor, but no one knows whether to believe if he is really evil or not. He plays God, keeping the women from the men, issuing curfews for both genders, assigning jobs to those who are not soldiers, and has everyone placed in living quarters right where he wants them. It sounds bleak, doesn’t it? It is.

Told from both Todd and Viola’s POV, we get to see what’s going on in every angle of ‘New Prentisstown’. Viola is assigned as a healer, and Todd is under the Mayor..er..President’s nose, doing all his personal bidding and manual labor. Each of them pining for one another, both willing to do anything to get to one another and give the other a chance for safety and survival, this story made for an emotionally charged compilation of longing and willingness to do what must be done to ultimately get to their counterpart. I loved seeing how strongly they cared for one another, and getting an insight to their inner monologue really put things into perspective:

+They only have each other
+They fought against the world together
+They have saved each other numerous times
+They have made sacrifices
+Even when torn apart from different sides, they still choose each other
+They would literally do anything for one another

Really makes you see how much they care, doesn’t it, when put into perspective?

I agree with what one of my GR friends said about the tone of this installment-while I still loved the story and could not put the book down, there was a lack of humor that I missed from the first book. There were horrible occurrences in book one, some that I still haven’t gotten over, but there was just a different tone that really drew you in and made you fall in love with Todd and his journey to become a man under the worst possible circumstances. There was a darkness in TAATA that hung over your head with each passing page, building into something real and palpable. There was torture, there was desperation, we built new friendships, again their inner strength was tested and contorted into something that could control and consume them…it was as heartbreaking as it was gripping.

Reading half of this at work, I became a madwomen who couldn’t seem to pull away from the story even for a moment. The desperation that was pulled from each character fueled the story to epic proportions, building up to a high-stakes showdown. Like I said, there were parts that I longed for things to be different, but then we wouldn’t have yet another awesome cliffhanger to build off of. We wouldn’t have an all out crazy mess to fix in book three. Most importantly, we wouldn’t have had the last 150 pages built up into such an angsty mess that I couldn’t even concentrate on normal, everyday life until I got to the end. And now I can’t wait for the much anticipated (by me) finale.

It’s not that you should never love something so much it can control you.
It’s that you NEED to love something that much so you can NEVER BE CONTROLLED.

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BOOK REVIEW – The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking Trilogy #1) by Patrick Ness

August 20, 2014 / / 0 Comments
BOOK REVIEW – The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking Trilogy #1) by Patrick NessThe Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking #1)
by Patrick Ness
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*Re-read with all of (well, most of them) my wonderful GR friends: Kris (KC), Jen, Harriet, Sarah, Troy, and Maythavee. I literally forgot how wonderful this story is and how much I loved it the first time around. I’ll always adore Todd Hewitt and his lovable companion, Manchee. I found my emotions were all over the board this time because I knew what happened-The fact that I knew every twist and turn in no way made me feel less. In fact, it made me feel more. I felt sadness to my core in anticipation of certain unforgettable events, and I even laughed twice as much and appreciated their humor more this time around. A solid five stars (shut up ;)) for a story I will never forget-this will always be in my top three favorite series of all time. Thanks for reading it again with me, guys!!! And good luck….

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But a knife ain’t just a thing, is it? It’s a choice, it’s something you DO. A knife says yes or no, cut or not, die or don’t. A knife takes a decision out of your hand and puts it in the world and it never goes back again.

Sometimes….sometimes a book comes along that you totally aren’t expecting. You think there is no way that it can be any good or that it can keep your attention. But then something happens. Something clicks-clicks right into place and gets your mind reeling and speculating and desperate for more.

You have to put the book down…and it nearly kills you. Ya know, because we have the real world to tend to. We can’t just be sitting around reading all day. We have jobs and repsonsibilities and-and all the while you can’t get this book out of your mind. For me, that was this book. This damn book.

If the world wants you, it’s gonna keep on coming till it gets you. And who am I that can fix it? Who am I that can change this if the world wants it so badly? Who am I to stop the end of the world if it keeps on coming?

I’m not going to say this was some groundbreaking story that absolutely everyone will love. I’m not even sure why I loved it. Maybe it was Todd, the main character. Maybe it was Manchee, the lovable talking dog who is always, ALWAYS there for Todd. Maybe it’s even that damn rip in the ‘noise’. Take your pick, I loved each of these characters so, so much. Also, though, is the struggle to remain a boy, to remain inherently good, to stay above all the evil that has corrupted this new society. Todd faces many obstacles that will ultimately test his overall humanity-whether he will be separated from the innocent boy he used to be and join the legion of people who can’t even be classified as men, but cowards who will never be good, who will never do what’s right, or stay true to who he is. The boy who will become a man by sticking up for what’s right and remaining honorable even in the face of certain death. I think this is what made this a story that is completely unforgettable. But as I was saying-this book is not for everyone. It is angsty. It is grammatically incorrect (who in the hell wouldn’t speak in run-on sentences if you were running from someone? Who has time to punctuate?). It has devastating cirumstances and things happen that will tear you apart. It is
barbaric
…And I LOVED it.

As long as I hold it as long as I use it, the knife lives, lives in order to take life, but it has to be commanded, it has to have me to tell it to kill, and it wants to, it wants to plunge and thrust and cut and stab and gouge, but I have to want it to as well, my will has to join with its will.

I’m the one who allows it and I’m the one responsible

Todd is the youngest in a town of men who can all hear each other’s ‘noise’. Noise is basically everyone’s thoughts…you can literally hear everyone’s thoughts. The reason it becomes ‘noise’, though, is because everyone’s thoughts conform and cause a massive ball of confusion and…well…noise. Or that’s at least how I understood it. Then a day comes when he must run for his life and he doesn’t know why, but knowledge is the last thing he needs on the subject. How do you run from people when they can hear literally everything you think/breathe/do? So the running begins.

The noise is a man unfiltered, and without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.

Overall, this story is very hard to explain and portray correctly. I keep wanting to say the writing was special or beautiful-default words, right? But they just don’t fit here. This book is different. The writing is downright raw. There are mispellings that express Todd’s level of education, and whereas this bothers me in literally every other book, it didn’t bother me in this story. It just didn’t. I knew what the author was trying to do, and it only added to the already intricately layered story. That’s the other thing-this story had layer, after layer, after layer. You think you have things figured out, but I can assure you-nothing is all that predictable. Yes, there’s a certain inevitabilty with every story, sure. In this one, no matter how much I DID KNOW, there was still a missing piece that I didn’t realize I was missing. Ness got me to wonder and wonder and wonder-I absolutely had to know what was going to happen next and why everything was the way it was.

Life ain’t fair.
It ain’t.
Not never.
It’s pointless and stupid and there’s only suffering and pain and people who want to hurt you. You can’t love nothing or no one cuz it’ll all be taken away or ruined and you’ll be left alone and constantly having to fight, constantly having to run just to stay alive.

Then the ending. That ending was most definitely a rough cliffy. Now, I ALSO knew what happened at the end-or so I thought. Yes, I had it partly correct, but to what extent of this inevitable end, I had no idea. Ultimately, this book drew emotions out of me that have long been buried since a certain book in March. I cried so fiercely that it bordered on embarrassing. I even put the story down and tried to come back to it after this certain *ahem* event, and I broke down again. Don’t judge me.

The only place you belong is the place you can never go back. And so yer always alone, forever and always.

The point I think I’ve been trying to make through this whole review is that TKONLG was a great, totally unexpected, and exciting read. It got my blood pumping, it consumed my thoughts, and I devoured it. Would I suggest it to any of my friends? Not likely. We all love romance, and there was a little smidgen mixed in-and that’s enough for me to be happy. My friends, though? I think they’d like less knife action and a little more romance. So, the answer is no. Will I read this again someday? Yes. Am I starting the second in the series immediately after I get home from work? Most definitely. Am I finally done rambling about the same points over and over again? Yep-over and out.

BOOK REVIEW – Never Fade (The Darkest Minds #2) by Alexandra Bracken

August 20, 2014 / / 0 Comments
BOOK REVIEW – Never Fade (The Darkest Minds #2) by Alexandra BrackenNever Fade (The Darkest Minds #2)
by Alexandra Bracken
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Ghosts don’t haunt people-their memories do.

Epic. Gripping. Powerful. You know when you read a really great first book in a series? And when it ends with a cliffhanger that leaves you crushed and heartbroken, but begging for more? Well, TDM was like that, and here we are, left picking up the pieces…and begging for that inevitable moment when all is right in the world-Ruby’s world…but it’s become ours all the same. But when we finally get what we want, will it really be what we want?

If a heart could break once, it shouldn’t have been able to happen again.

This review is going to be so hard because there is literally one thing I want to talk about…and it’s the one thing that will spoil the end of book one. I suppose this is an ample warning that the possibility of spoilers from book one is high, but I will do my best to keep book one’s spoilers to a minimum-because what makes this book so epic is stemmed from the cliffhanger of book one…and what makes this book all the sweeter.

“Safe.” The word sounded hollow. He closed his eyes on it. “Don’t go again,” he whispered. “Don’t go…where I can’t follow, please, please, not again…”

Ruby is on a mission-a mission to get all the kids out of the Psi camps where they are mistreated and even killed, depending on what color ranking they are. But more than that, she’s on a mission to forget the boy who inspired it all…View Spoiler » Was that really the best choice? It plagues her every day, consuming her with want and heartache-but in the end, she feels like she did what was right…what was right for the guy she loves. View Spoiler »

His face was as open as it always was, so heartbreakingly perfect even with pain tightening the line of his mouth. His eyes were-they were so pale in this light, jumping from my eyes to my nose to my lips like he had never seen me before but never wanted to stop looking. An ache started at the center of my chest and worked its way out, twisting my insides until I finally forced myself to look away.

I absolutely loved this installment-my only complaint? That book three doesn’t come out until September. We have the return of old characters, the introduction of new characters, and a mix of the two-I LOVED that. When Ruby is assigned a special mission, she has to find a way to ditch the league (at least the part that doesn’t know anything about the assignment) and find a way to become invisible-she has to find a way to blend in and get to the disc that can change the course of all the camps and those trapped in them-but to get to this disc she must View Spoiler ».  And when she finds an opportunity to slip the league, she finds out that her friend and fellow league member, Jude, is being assigned to the deadly mission that she is using as a distraction to escape (he will most certainly be killed intentionally by dirty league members-thus why he was assigned to the mission) so she is forced to make a quick decision-bring Jude along in her escape…or leave him behind and risk him being taken out.

I knew what I’d been when I’d found them: a terrified splinter of a girl who had been shattered a long time ago. I had nothing, and no real place to go. Maybe I was still broken and would always be-but now, at least, I was piecing myself back together, lining up one jagged edge at a time.

I think we all know what Ruby decided to do-she is fierce, loyal, determined, and protective. She would never let a friend die or leave them behind to make her life easier. She is constantly putting herself in danger to protect others, and she lives for her friends. And this writing-it pulls you into the story until you become a part of it yourself and feel everything Ruby does and ache as she aches-you feel every pain and every vision and even her desperation-the writing is so vivid and painstakingly clear that it becomes impossible to look away from the page because it would totally break your connection-it just sucks you into every page and you don’t want to be separated. It’s that good.

“I don’t like you,” he repeated, his face bleak. “I don’t like you?”
“Liam-” I started, alarmed.
“I can’t-I can’t think about anything or anyone else,” he whispered. A hand drifted up, dragging back through his hair. “I can’t think straight when you’re around. I can’t sleep. It feels like I can’t breathe-I just-“

I adore this cast of characters. As I said in my first review, there really is never a character wasted. Even those new additions that seem like we could never really get attached to, I found myself bonded to them. Jude is one of those characters. He is young, loyal, and sweet-and even though he knows he was set up to be taken out, he believes in the good of the league-what they are fighting for. He sees the good in everything and is always a ray of sun on a crappy day-he is always there to pick up Ruby’s mood. And then there’s the return of Chubs-the ever uppity, rude, intelligent, but, as you probably guessed, loyal friend Ruby traveled with in book one. You are also probably wondering why the group got separated-I guess you need to read book one to find out. 😉

“I don’t know what’s wrong with me,” he breathed out. “I feel like…I feel like I’m losing my damn mind, like your face has been carved into my heart, and I don’t remember when, and I don’t understand why, but the scar is there, and I can’t get it to heal. It won’t go. I can’t make it fade. And you won’t even look at me.”

And there’s…..drum roll please…..Liam. Liam, who would throw himself in front of a bus for his friends. Liam, who loves Ruby more than words can express. Liam, who needs Ruby’s help more than he even knows…and is in mortal danger. He deserves every paragraph in this review, because his presence brings so much happiness, giddiness, and sweetness. Every moment with Liam was heart-wrenching, soul-crushing, butterfly-inducing awesomeness. I, at one point, was choking on the butterflies emerging in my stomach and could not stop gooning and making mooney eyes at my screen-I really invested the time for this story and it really payed off. I was so engrossed in this world and this story that all I could do was merely swat reality away-“Go away pesky dishes…shut up dog, I know you have to pee-but ten more minutes-PLEASE. I’ll give you five treats and treats!” See? I was bargaining with my animal-pitiful.

“I’m…It’s-it’s like torture.” His voice was strained, hardly even a whisper. “I think I’m losing it-I don’t know what’s happening, what happened, but I look at you, I look at you and I love you so much. Not because of anything you’ve said, or done, or anything at all. I look at you, and I just love you, and it terrifies me. It terrifies me what I would do for you. Please…you have to tell me….tell me I’m not crazy. Please just look at me.”
My eyes drifted up to his, and it was over.

Twists, turns, danger, enemies you thought you’d never see again-they are here, people. I had even finished and was driving around yesterday, thinking-‘Oh yay! I get to go home now-I’m so excited-More, Ruby, Liam, and Chubs adventures! Oh….wait…I finished this last night….’ *cue crumpled, sad face*. I literally became deflated. I LOVED this world, I LOVED these characters, I LOVED this story. I am really going to miss them until September comes…no matter how many tears I have shed over these characters and what happens to them, I will never get enough-ever.

Reading Order & Links:
Amazon (click on covers), iBooks (click on titles) & Book Depository (click on book #)
The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken
The Darkest Minds #1
Reviews:
Jen
Chelsea
Laura		The Darkest Minds: Never Fade by Alexandra Bracken
Never Fade #2
Reviews:
 Jen
Chelsea		The Darkest Minds Never Fade: In The Afterlight by Alexandra Bracken
In the Afterlight #3
Reviews:
Jen
Chelsea
through the dark darkest minds alexandra bracken
Through the Dark #1.5, 2.5 & 3.5
Reviews:
Jen (Sparks Rise #2.5)

BOOK REVIEW – The Darkest Minds (The Darkest Minds #1) by Alexandra Bracken

August 20, 2014 / / 0 Comments
BOOK REVIEW – The Darkest Minds (The Darkest Minds #1) by Alexandra BrackenThe Darkest Minds (The Darkest Minds #1)
by Alexandra Bracken
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*5 Stars!!!!! I can’t forget about these books-rating any lower is blasphemy on my part. END OF STORY.*


*4.5 Stars*


They were afraid of us-the ones who lived.

What if one touch could change the course of your life forever? Wow. I didn’t know what to expect. So many dystopians lately fail to stand out and just fade back into the crowd. I can’t say that this necessarily jumped to the front-I’ve read a LOT of dystopians-but it definitely brought something special to the table. I never once felt bored, never felt the desire to skim and skip and jump to another page. Each page had something to say and added another thin, fine layer to this already interesting and expertly woven story. And, for once, I don’t think a single character’s presence was a wasted space-everyone slid perfectly into their slot of the story and made the moments that much more meaningful.

They’d taken in a monster, thinking it was a mouse.

Ruby is hiding something, something that will not only change her status in the camp she was taken to, but make her a weapon for the good guys-or are they the bad guys? Who should she trust?

How can she embrace this ability, this gift, as people are starting to say, when it’s always been taught and implied that it’s wrong wrong wrong? What will she do when all of a sudden she shouldn’t be suppressing her powers, but embracing and using them? And most importantly-how will she keep herself from becoming a monster?

I guess once you’d had a taste of the worst, pretty bad isn’t all that terrible.

A story about a 16 year old girl coming to terms with the struggle she has faced since she turned 10, the feeling of loneliness and not belonging anywhere, and the realization that she might always be alone. And then, after she is ‘taken’ from the camp by a group claiming to be advocates for the ‘greater good’ and people who don’t condone her abilities, she gets away and runs into a group of other ‘infected’ kids who are also on the run after a camp escape-but they have their own grief to carry. Smuggled on by the youngest, and cutest :P, member of their little threesome, Zu, she finds herself on a journey to find a place that is described as ‘heaven’ to kids with their abilities-and at the head of this place of peace and comfort is a guy, Clancy, who might be one of the last people who can truly understand Ruby-for he has the same level (orange-hard to explain the color system) of abilities as she, and perhaps he could help her hone them to become something more than a hindrance…but can she trust him?

“I told you we should have taken that Ford SUV,” Chubs said.
“That piece of-” Liam caught himself. “That box on wheels was a death trap-not to mention its transmission was shot to hell.”
“So, naturally, the next choice was a minivan.”
“Yep, she called to me from the parking lot of abandoned cars. The sun was shining through her windows like a beacon of hope.”
Chubs groaned. “Why are you so weird?”
“Because my weird has to be able to cancel out your weird, Lady Cross-stitch.”

What I loved most about this story? The friendships that were formed and the loyalties earned were so precious and not taken lightly-and I found myself grinning from ear-to-ear merely because of the banter between friends. Romance wasn’t the only star of the show. BUT….you know meeeeeeee-it wouldn’t be a Chelsea review if I didn’t gush about the romance. It was absolutely adorable, incredibly sweet, kind, and over-the-top heart-wrenching as Ruby and Liam fell for one another. It was NOT rushed. It was NOT forced. It was NOT whiny or one-sided. But the slow-burn and building realization that they might be able to make it work (even with her crazy ability) was utterly heartwarming and I was a butterfly induced, grinning fool. But not once did the romance overshadow the story-the pacing and progression was absolute perfection with just enough of a slow-burn to make me a mess.

“God.” He shook his head, mouth twisting into a shadow of a smile. “Did you know…you make me so happy that sometimes I actually forget to breathe? I’ll be looking at you, and my chest will get so tight…and it’s like, the only thought in my head is how much I want to reach over and kiss you.” He blew out a shaky breath. “So don’t talk about getting me out of here, because I’m not leaving, not unless you’re part of the package too.”

I finished this late last night and was very pleased with the cliffhanger. I really enjoyed the book as a whole, even, but the last 40% was just so good. It brought the story up a few paces and raised my 4 star rating to a quick 4.5. Loyalty, love, betrayal, and naivety, there wasn’t much missing from TDM. I guess the only reason this wasn’t a five star was that I wasn’t fully engrossed in the story at first. You know, the incessantly talking in my ear, turning the television up to ear-busting decibels boyfriend was a huge factor, and also, I was just extremely tired and was half dozing through the first 40%, so I can’t say really anything was wrong with the story-just lack of time and quiet to fully immerse myself into the book. So, at the moment, I can’t think of a single negative thing to say…and the more I think about it, I get even giddier about the story as a whole….so yeah.

“The darkest minds tend to hide behind the most unlikely faces.”

A strong cast and even stronger story of survival while the whole world is out to get you, we get a very fun, and yet very serious, story about what it means to embrace what you are or what you can be. This is one of those that while I would make sure you like dystopian first, there was literally no reason I wouldn’t pass along a recommendation. It was funny, fast-paced, sweet, and even a little heartbreaking…but completely worth the read. Read it, don’t read it…doesn’t matter. But I am stoked for book two.

“Never, never, never. I am never going to forget you.”

Reading Order & Links:
Amazon (click on covers), iBooks (click on titles) & Book Depository (click on book #)
The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken
The Darkest Minds #1
Reviews:
Jen
Chelsea
Laura		The Darkest Minds: Never Fade by Alexandra Bracken
Never Fade #2
Reviews:
 Jen
Chelsea		The Darkest Minds Never Fade: In The Afterlight by Alexandra Bracken
In the Afterlight #3
Reviews:
Jen
Chelsea
through the dark darkest minds alexandra bracken
Through the Dark #1.5, 2.5 & 3.5
Reviews:
Jen (Sparks Rise #2.5)

BOOK REVIEW – Divergent (Divergent #1) by Veronica Roth

August 19, 2014 / / 0 Comments
BOOK REVIEW – Divergent (Divergent #1) by Veronica RothDivergent (Divergent #1)
by Veronica Roth
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*Re-read with my buddies Kristin (KC), Jennifer, Sarah, Maythavee, and Annie :)-my rating obviously stays 5 amazing stars*

It has been a long time since I have read a book where the romance takes a backseat to action and suspense and I have actually enjoyed it. It seems with these types of books that the author tends to write with a simplistic nature that, at first, is hard to get used to, but then ultimately becomes addicting and adds to the tone of the story. I found I was trying to immerse myself into the story on page one, but was having difficulty getting back into the simplistic writing style. But once I plunged head first into the story and embraced what was happening, I could not put Divergent down.

Tris is such a likeable female lead. She is hard and she gets gritty, but she ultimately loves. She doesn’t think so, but as the story progesses, we see her difficulties with the decision she chose and that crack in the armour that makes her human. She wanted to separate from a boring, selfless lifestyle where she was just another grey shirt that blended in, but never really belonged. But throughout her journey she shows guilt, anger, selflessness, betrayal-all the emotions possible-things she never thought she should be allowed to feel and things she never thought she’d feel again. Who can she trust? Who should she trust? All questions she must face daily if she wants to become initiated.

Four…ooohhh Four. I loved him! He was a great addition to the story and he was woven in perfectly. Not too much and not too little…just enough for me to flip through the pages (or in my case, SLIDE the pages)hastily. My next point-it has been such a long time since I have read every. single. page. without skimming. None. NO skimming. I skim even on my all-time favorite books, so this is quite a feat. Honestly.

This was a fun, gripping read that had me on the edge of my seat 90% of the time. I do wish some things had turned out differently, and I can’t say what-but in the end, I discovered everything I could ask for: suspense littered all throughout the pages, romance, betrayal, a few if-I-don’t-get-my-ass-outta-this-I-WILL-die moments, and a good family backstory. Yes, I loved her family. In other books like this I didn’t necessarily care what happened to the family. But in Divergent her family was solid and strong, and I found myself terribly addicted to what happens with her mother, brother, and father. So now I can’t wait to read Insurgent. I just hope it’s as good as the first.

Reading Order & Links:
Amazon (click on covers), iBooks (click on titles) & Book Depository (click on book #)
divergent veronica roth
Divergent #1
Reviews:
Jen
Chelsea		insurgent veronica roth divergent
Insurgent #2
Reviews:
Jen
Chelsea		allegiant divergent veronica roth
Allegiant #3
Reviews:
Jen
Chelsea

Four: A Divergent Collection #0.1 - 0.4
*Four's Story*

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