I Ignored Life for 3 days

Lately I've been on a HUGE reading kick.  Which is ironic because if you had asked the 11 year old me if I would ever read for pleasure, she would've bet her first born that she would NEVER read for pleasure. 

The last books I was hooked on, like couldn't put it down, tried to sneak away hooked on was The Hunger Games.  Before that it was Twilight.  Don't hate, it's a good story. 

I find that I have a hard time getting into books without strong characters.  Apparently, I'm more along the Young Adult/Sci-Fi reader.  Which shocks me a little.  Perhaps there is some therapist who has some explanation for that. 

Several months ago, just after I finished The Hunger Games trilogy, Amazon sent me a recommendation for this book:

Along with several others that sound eerily like The Hunger Games meets junior high meets that would never happen.  Perhaps that's why I loved The Hunger Games - even though it is "that would never happen" they make you believe that it totally could.  So I bought Divergent because the story sounded good and I really liked the cover.  My refined selection habits are astounding!

Then it sat in my Kindle library for approximately 187 days.  After reading some other books and getting my reading mojo going, I thought, why not.  I'll give it 30 pages.  That's my strategy with any book; 30 pages and if I'm not hooked, I don't read it.  Anywho, I came up for hair about 5 hours later, lost precious sleep, and had to rely on Starbucks to get me through the next day. 

I had no idea it was the first book in a trilogy.  This is the second:

They are Young Adult/Sci-Fi, but not in that weird video game way where everyone is a zombie and they go by names you cannot pronounce.  It's YA/Sci-Fi in a way that you love the characters and think, "this could totally happen." 

Veronica Roth is awesome!  She's early 20's, wrote Divergent during college and now has a trilogy that is fabulous.

The third book of the trilogy doesn't come out until fall 2013. 

If you liked The Hunger Games trilogy, enjoy books that provide entertainment and strong characters, give this 30 pages.  It's can't put it down fabulous!