How To Read The Book 'Divergent' By Veronica Roth

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Insurgent began with a very interesting and fast-pasted start beginning only an hour after the previous book in the series Divergent. I thought this was very well done by the author because while it would have been better to read the previous book in the series, the way the author Veronica Roth wrote the book, any reader that did not read the previous book Divergent would be able to understand what was going on in the plot of the book by the end of the first chapter. Roth’s’ writing style made this possible for readers. Next, Roth’s character development was also executed very well in that one of the main characters named Tris had been turned from a shy-static girl into an intelligent-dynamic risk taker by the challenges the author had presented

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