THIS BOOK IS NOTHING LIKE The Hunger Games, DO NOT BE MISLEADED INTO THINKING THAT IT IS. 
 Well, when I started reading I was feeling very enthusiastic and I liked the idea about the world being separated into 5 parts according to what's valued the most in each of them. 
 As I kept reading, at loads of places I felt like something's missing, like the author's skipping things just to get the places that interested her more as fast as she could. Once the love story began, I started facepalming every other description. 
 The language seemed very childish to me from the very beginning. I honestly didn't know that Veronica Roth is only 24 years old. Half through the book, my friend finally told me how young the author is. That pretty much explained everything to me. Especially the attitude. A lot of the time it seemed as if Roth is even younger than the main characters. 
 By the end of the book, I started skipping descriptions simply because they were of no value to this story, there was nothing important in them. And if in the beginning it felt as if Roth is in a hurry to get to the interesting parts, when I finished reading I understood that she was actually in a hurry to finish the book (skim through it and send it to the publishers as soon as possible). Roth, undoubtedly, has a creative type of mind and no problems with imagination, but that's not enough for a story to be good. I seriously wonder, how different is the published version from her first draft? I bet it's not that different really. 
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 (view spoiler)[Also, she uses cliche after cliche. I mean, come on, finishing chapters with guns about to shoot the main character? Really? 
 However, what made me dislike this book (and give it 1 star instead of 2, as I initially thought I would) is the fact that when Tris's mother dies in front of her, Roth uses less than half a page to mourn her. Then when she tells the rest of the family about what's happened, again - nobody's devastated. Even if you're Abnegation, death isn't something one gets over in 2 minutes, is it? When Tris's father dies literally in identical circumstances, Roth repeats the same mistake. Tris is shocked, but moves on pretty easily. I didn't feel her pain. Not once in the book, actually. 
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 Oh, and I will not elaborate on why it's wrong that the characters never ate throughout the story, why Tris and Tobias are the worst names ever for main characters (can't decide which one's worse), why it's a bit strange that all the time the characters are beaten almost to death and then in 2 days they feel perfect. Etc., etc., etc. 
 I was expecting Divergent to be as smart, thought-through, sarcastic and pierced with pain as The Hunger Games. It was not even close. I regret spending money on it. I hope in the future the author realizes that she should not have rushed the whole thing.