I had this one on my Nook for a while before reading it--mainly because I really enjoyed The Hunger Games trilogy and wasn't interested in another dystopian series so soon. I finally took it off its virtual shelf while I was reading a literary book and needed some good plot driven fiction. Divergent satisfied that need. The narrative races along with little introspection or character development (all of the characters are essentially the same in the end as the beginning). Many of the plot elements were predictable and the initial premise of the single focus "factions" a bit shaky--however, it was what I call a good "popcorn" read. In spite of it's literary flaws, the story carried me along like a good action movie and by the end I had to say I enjoyed the story--but probably not enough to read the sequels.