Beatrice Prior, or Tris, is a young girl living in Dystopian Chicago, a city divided into 5 factions. Every year 16 year old's must decided whether they want to remain in their family's faction or leave it, never to see them again. 
 You have Tris' faction, Abnegation, an Amish type faction, Dauntless, the fearless fighters, Erudites, or nerds, Candor, the blatant and impartial, and Amity, the pacifists. 
 These children are expected to choose one of these 5 factions, complete an initiation or face becoming Faction-less, a group of hobos for lack of a better term. 
 The title of the book, Divergent, is a term characters use to classify those people who are not fit for any one class, a jack of all trades of sorts, and being one is punishable by death. 
 Divergent is one of those books that really captures you head on, you dive into it and don't put it down for any length of time. You HAVE to finish it. I'm not happy with the fact that Insurgent, the next book in this trilogy isn't slated for release until May 2012. By that point I probably won't be interested enough anymore to finish the series but I might, who knows. 
 I really did love this book right off the bat and even though I read the ARC, it took me a few months of sitting down and picking it up a few times in order to actually devote time to it but I'm glad I did. A 5 star book as far as I'm concerned!