one of the best things about having an e-reader are these groovy little splinter-chapters and novellas available digitally that are meant to tide you over until the next book in a series comes out or to re-tell something from another perspective, and it is all fangirl and -boy squee-ish and a really nice thing that authors can do for us. 
 like this one. 
 a retelling of a key scene in divergent. 
 but...here's the thing. while i have loved almost all of the ones mira grant has put out there, and the patrick ness one was great, and the ann aguirre one was fine, sometimes i don't feel they are really necessary. this one falls into that category. it is thirteen pages. thirteen. and while it was only 89 cents, and there's not much that's not worth 89 cents in this world, i just didn't feel satisfied, or that i had read something that really enhanced my enjoyment of divergent. it wasn't particularly illuminating. we get to see what four was thinking. big whoop. we got plenty of his character from the books themselves, and if she had wanted us to know what he was like in these early stages, she'd have written it in the first place, yeah? 
 i'm not saying this was a waste of time or anything, and especially considering this is a YA series, and at that age, i would have killed for extra chapters from my favorite books, like how i read H. The Story of Heathcliff's Journey Back to Wuthering Heights, so i get that it makes sense to offer these to readers, and i applaud the gesture, but i feel like this is only that - a gesture. 
 gimmie book three, already!!!