I'm not really sure what all the hype is about on this one. I'm getting a little tired of Hunger Games clones; a dystopian future America in which war erupts among the segregated factions of people under the leadership of a wicked woman, told from the point of view of an impossibly tough teenage heroine who just happens to be dealing with relationship issues while the world is roiling around her. Let's get away from this theme a little, shall we? 
 I'm all about characters, and the ones in this book were pretty lame except for Four. And even he started to sort of fall apart a little bit as a character about halfway through the story. The protagonist, Tris, is just not someone i can sympathize with. Not that she would want me to sympathize with her. But i just don't care a lot about her reckless lack of self control and reason and whatever specialness her divergence is supposed to be. 
 And, by the way, if the Erudite's number one priority was really to stamp out the divergent, i'm pretty sure they would've had a pretty easy time of it if they'd actually tried at all. The antagonists in this story seem like the kind of bad guys that Dr. Evil is a parody of; too delighted by the opportunity to slowly torture the hero (without even watching it happen) to simply dispatch her in a quick manner that would actually make sense. 
 However, it's always kind of fun with stories like this to imagine where you'd fit into this fantasy world, and it's also always fun to read about a small woman beating the crap out of people much larger than she is, even if it's totally unrealistic. So there was some enjoyment to be had in Divergent, but there was nothing unique or compelling about the story IMHO.