In this society, everyone is split up in 5 different factions. Each faction is dedicated to a particular virtue- Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day every year, all sixteen-year-olds must choose a faction and are considered an adult from that moment on. Tris is the character we follow from the day of her choosing ceremony. We watch her struggle with leaving her family or staying in the same faction with all of her friends and family. Usually, when you leave your childhood faction your old friends and family no longer speak to you, they treat it as a betrayal. They use advanced technology to find out what faction you are best suited for. Everyone is only supposed to be suited for one. Tris finds out that she is suited for more than one and then is told how dangerous this is. She leaves her faction of Abnegation for the Dauntless faction. We find out this is a very brutal and corrupt faction. She not only has to watch her back from the other new initiates when she finds out only ten new people get to stay in the faction and everyone else is made factionless, which is basically homeless. We watch her toughen up and make friends with some of the new initiates. She also starts having feelings for one of her instructors named Four. We watch her struggle when one of her friends gets jealous and tries to kill her and when her new faction tries to harm her old one. I really enjoyed this book. It definitely had some very sad parts that are hard to get through, but no more than you would expect from a dystopian book. It looks like the factions can never be the same at the end of this first book.
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