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The Initiation Quartet ☹️ seeing them all having fun and being friends knowing what’s to come… THIS IS SO SICK AND TWISTED

I forgot just how many genuinely iconic scenes there are in Divergent. Like halfway through and there’s been the Aptitude Test, the Choosing Ceremony, Tris jumping into the net, Tris getting her tattoo, the ferris wheel scene, capture the flag, and now the zip lining scene… we need to bring back this level of iconicism to YA literature!!

As excited as I am for The Sixth Faction… a Natalie Prior prequel would have been so life changing

WAIT WAIT WAIT THIS IS GETTING GOOOOOOD

I don’t think I appreciated just how propagandized the dystopia of the faction system would have to be when I read it for the first time. The Choosing Ceremony would be so torturous if you were planning to transfer 🥲

So much of this was etched into my brain guys like I’m SHOCKED at how much I remembered from these first few chapters after 11 years

Rereading this… a new Hunger Games movie releasing this year… it really is 2015 again

Done with The Traitor and the novella sections, now just reading the alternate perspective scenes 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

Finished The Son, now onto The Traitor

I will say, I feel like those first three short stories tell a very complete arch when put together.

I’m so sad I took such a long break from this series — it’s so good! Missed hearing from these characters 🫂

Done with The Traitor now onto The Son

Dauntless Elderly committing suicide because they’d be Factionless for having a disability also really stuck with me to the point I thought it was from the main series, not this one

That’s all for The Transfer, now onto The Initiate. Kinda crazy how little I remember from this one, and how much it makes me realize I am forgetting about this series overall. Very excited to continue this reread

It’s so funny how random things really stick with you. When I was thirteen reading this for the first time, the part about Four cutting himself too deeply during his choosing ceremony stuck with me more than anything from the actual plot lmao

Last year I reread The Hunger Games series in preparation for Sunrise on the Reaping. With The Sixth Faction being announced, it felt very fitting to reread the Divergent novels. Let’s see how they hold up

(Also starting with Four because I remember HATING reading Four after Allegiant the first read through and thinking it would’ve been better before Divergent)

Janet’s POV chapter was lowkey badass… miss you queen!

Once this book got started it’s like, REALLY going… I just wish some of the set up had been a little more explored? I feel like I would be a lot more invested if I hadn’t just met these characters

This book went from 0-100 like THAT

I survived the world’s worst reading slump but lowkey don’t remember half these characters 😭 I also think a lot of the diner stuff was weird? Maybe it’s part of the mystery but it also just felt awkwardly written.

Reading slump is kicking my ass it’s time to pull out the big guns

I got crazy busy and this book got too stressful (good writing but my tummy hurt) so I took a break 😭 but now we’re so back!!

Isabel saying earlier in the book how much hearing Curzon call her Country meant to her vs now him calling her Country to emotionally level her I’m sick… IM SICK

Ruth now being the age Isabel was in Book 1 almost leveled me…

Getting hit by a truck would hurt less… how are we only 30 pages in?!?

I’m so glad I reread Chains and Forge before this — I hadn’t realized how much I had forgotten?! I’m also excited because this is the only one in the trilogy I hadn’t read! (I’m also terrified of what’s going to happen)

“Want me to hit him again?” after nearly killing a man… violent Isabel Gardner is so funny too adore her 🫂🫂

Being shot would hurt less… I adore Isabel and Curzon so much

John Burns down, Bellingham to go

Finding Isabel wasn’t enough. They need to kill Bellingham!

“Candlelight caught the rage in her eyes. Reflected off the scar on her cheek. ‘Twas Isabel.”

Things had gone from bad to worse, Curzon was at his lowest point, and we finally discover what happened to Isabel as she returned. Phenomenal writing.