Divergent by Veronica Roth (Book Review)

Goodreads summary:
Beatrics "Tris" Prior has reached the fateful age of sixteen, the stage at which teenagers in Veronia Roth's dystopian Chicago must select which of the five factions to join for life. Each faction represents a virtue: Candor (Honesty), Abnegation (selflessness), Dauntless (bravery), Amity (Peacefulness), and Erudite (Knowledge). To the surprise of herself and her selfless Abnegation family, she chooses Dauntless, the path of courage. Her choice exposes herself to the demanding, violent initiation rites of this group, but it also threatens to expose a secret that could place her in mortal danger. Veronica Roth's young adult Divergent trilogy launches with a captivating adventure of love and loyalty playing out under most extreme circumstances.

                         My rating - 2 

My Review:
This book was okay. I wish that could say I loved it but then I would be lying. So many people recommended Divergent to me so I had to pick it up, but I was greatly disapointed. For starters it was long and in my opinion it was slow paced, so it did take me a good while to read the whole thing. It was interesting enough, but I was expecting a lot more from it.

The first thing that annoyed me was the protagonist. She isn't very likeable. I didn't mind her at first, but she started to make very selfish decisions and wanted to lash out at everybody who got on the wrong side of her. That's not the sort of character I can relate to, let alone look up to.

It may have been just me, but I found it very confusing at times. In my opinion, Veronica Roth didn't give us enough information about the world, and at times I had to turn back a few pages to remind myself what had just happened and what was what.

The romance in Divergent was nothing new. I didn't think that the two characters had any chemistry that would connect them together.

I would recommend Divergent because there are a lot of people who love the trilogy. I am not one of them. It just wasn't for me.