Read This Watch That: Divergent

Next to, The Hunger Games, Divergent has to be one of the most popular dystopian novels released in the last decade. This didn't go unnoticed by Hollywood and the movie adaptation is set to be released on March 21st 2014!

I wasn't sure about the casting of Shailene Woodley as Tris but after watching the trailer and featurette I am convinced she was made for the role. We have all of the books currently out in this series but they are so popular you will never find it on shelf. To put this book on hold you can call the library, or better yet come in and ask me to do it!

What do you think of the casting for this movie? Which actors and actresses did you envision in the role?

Drivergent Trailer #1 

 

Divergent Official Featurette 2014

Interview with Theo James & Shailene Woodley

Divergent by Veronica Roth

 

 

Summary:

 

In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue-Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is-she can't have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.

During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles alongside her fellow initiates to live out the choice they have made. Together they must undergo extreme physical tests of endurance and intense psychological simulations, some with devastating consequences. As initiation transforms them all, Tris must determine who her friends really are-and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes exasperating boy fits into the life she''s chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers unrest and growing conflict that threaten to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves . . . or it might destroy her.


Happy Reading!

Lindsey
YA Readers Advisor
Acting Teen Programmer
Orillia Public Library