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James Junkers

So I don't post about books other than Percy Jackson often, but when I read something like this, I have to.

For a long time, I have been hearing a lot about the ever-so-popular book series, Divergent, by Veronica Roth. I finally decided that I have to read them, and here is my story:

As soon as I read the first chapter of Divergent, I knew I was going to love it. Although it did end up getting a little slow at the end, I still managed to finish it in about 2 days. Then, I immediately got Insurgent, but had a completely different reaction. I started reading it, and was upset by how...well...boring it was. I simply did not like the fact that I was reading 200 pages of "I love you." "I hate you." "I'm sorry, I love you." However, once I start a book, I'm going to finish it. About halfway through the book, it started picking up speed, but then soon lost it again. Once I was down to about the last third of the book, it got pretty good, and I finished it in that sitting. But the ending. The ending. The ending. I thought Riordan was bad with cliffhangers, but this is terrible! Although, the second I read it, and got past the goosebumps it caused, I realized it was the best ending to a book I have ever read. Thank the gods that I didn't read this when it came out (May 2012), because Book 3 doesn't come out until October 2013, and I don't know how I would be able to wait that long. I would definitely recommend this book to you guys!