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In My Mailbox

I will combine the last three weeks of "In My Mailbox" and get up my much left behind reviews this weekend, hopefully. I am having a lot of trouble with Blogger currently (mainly it is refusing to post or save anything I type- and then when I do choose to publish- it freezes my computer). So hopefully I will be able to post a few things this weekend!

Divergent by Veronica Roth

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Divergent by Veronica Roth Published by Katherine Tegen Books Published on May 2011 Summary from Amazon.com In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago, 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 to determine who her friends really are—and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes infuriating boy fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one s