I read this one because I heard it was a lot like The Hunger Games, and looked like a quick, fun read. It is a LOT like the Hunger Games, almost too much. Both are set in a dystopian future, with a first-person, tough teenage girl as narrator, that begins with some kind of "choosing" ceremony. However, while one of the Hunger Games' strongest points was how the Capitol was eerily similar to our culture, Roth's factions were more similar to a high school cafeteria. For these reasons, along with the general "YA-ness" of the novel, I figured it would be two or three star book, but a couple of things changed my mind. For one, I was expecting the main character to be a Katniss-replica at best, a complete Mary-Sue at worst. I was pleasantly surprised that she turned out to be a tough, likable, but pretty believable teenage girl. And while the dystopia could have been more believable, I personally get more miffed when a book has a great premise but no character to back it up. I feel like this is particularly prevalent in some YA novels. So I was surprised and happy to realize that Divergent actually stood for something. That, coupled with the fact that I couldn't put it down, made it a solid 4-stars