Waiting On Wednesday: Divergent

This is a weekly meme hosted by Jill from Breaking the Spine. Waiting on Wednesday spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

Divergent
por Veronica Roth

HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen Books
496 páginas
Hardcover
3/5/2011

One choice

One choice decides your friends, defines your beliefs, and determines your loyalties... Forever.

Or, one choice can transform you.

In Veronica Roth's debut novel, Divergent, a perfect society unfolds into a dystopian world of electrifying decisions, stunning consequences, heartbreaking betrayals, and unexpected romance.

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 threatens to unravel her seemingly-perfect society, she also learns that her secret might be what helps her save those she loves... Or it might be what destroys her.

Mais um mundo futurístico que promete ser fantástico! Adorei tanto a sinopse quanto a capa, e ambos me convencem a lê-lo. O que vocês acham?