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  • Divergent: Ch 04 & 05

    The reason for the simplicity isn’t disdain for uniqueness, as the other factions have sometimes interpreted it. Everything—our houses, our clothes, our hairstyles—is meant to help us forget ourselves and to protect us from vanity, greed, and envy, which are just forms of selfishness. If we have little, and want for little, and we are…

  • Divergent: Ch 02 & 03

    Tris, her brother, and the other students all go to take their test after lunch.  …How old is her brother?  Why are they taking this test at the same time? My gaze drifts from Susan to the Dauntless tables across the room. They are laughing and shouting and playing cards. At another set of tables,…

  • Divergent: Ch 01

    This review was originally written and posted in February of 2013. This book opens with the main character standing in front of a mirror.  Again.  Why was this not immediately chucked into the slush pile?  Anyway, it seems our main character, Tris, is from a culture where you don’t get to look at yourself in…

  • A Discovery of Witches: Ch 43

    I’m so fucking bored that I don’t even care that this book’s pacing makes no sense.  I’m just so happy it’s over. The last chapter isn’t even anything.  It’s Sarah and Em coming home from their Halloween party to realize the house is empty.  Sarah finds a note that Matthew left before they went time-walking,…

  • A Discovery of Witches: Ch 42

    We’re on the second to last chapter, and thank god, because I think I’m about to just keel over from boredom.  There is no climax to this book, guys.  In a normal story, we would be heading into our final plot action, and leaving the last chapter for falling action/wrapping up.  But no.  In this…

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