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  • Divergent: Ch 22 & 23

    Tris wakes up in unfamiliar surroundings. I see a blue patchwork quilt under my head Divergent = eyes in the back of your head. Four is there, and he’s all bloody.  He implies that he beat Drew into disability.  No, really.  He then offers to report them for what happened. “No,” I reply. “I don’t…

  • Divergent: Ch 20 & 21

    Tris goes in for another torture session that’s supposed to magically teach her how to slow down her own heart rate through the power of happy thoughts and fairy farts.  Or, you know, whatever.  One excuse would make about as much sense as any other.  This time, she’s trapped in a glass box filling with…

  • Divergent: Ch 18 & 19

    The next day, they start phase two, and the transfers and the locals are all mixed together in one class again.  One of the local girls taunts Peter for being in first place. “Bet I could take you.” She says it casually, turning the ring in her eyebrow with her fingertips. “I’m second, but I…

  • Divergent: Ch 16 & 17

    Tris goes back to the dorm and finds Al hiding from his family.  Seems the first round of eliminations hasn’t happened yet.  Well, then I’m very confused.  Are they being eliminated tonight?  But that would have to mean that the knife throwing and the fight with Molly happened on the same day…but she got dressed…

  • Divergent: Ch 15

    Skip straight to Visiting Day now.  So…yup, we just passed right over that whole ‘end of part one of training’ thing.  It was supposed to be ‘yesterday’ and, oh yeah, they were supposed to eliminate four people.  Did the author just forget that detail, or is the timeline screwy, or was ruthlessly cutting four people…