Divergent Series Up for Teen Choice Award
The Divergent Trilogy is up for a Teen Choice Award. The NOMINATIONS were announced. The Series is going up against other series such as ‘The Hunger Games’ and ‘The Twilight Series’. Vote for them HERE.
Book 3 Will be out Fall 2013
When will we have book 3 in ‘The Divergent Series’? Unfortunately, not soon enough, but we completely understand why we are waiting until next fall to get it. According to Veronica’s Blog…
I know that’s over a year away, and that seems like forever. The reason it’s so distant is pretty simple: I need more time to write and edit and polish it, so that when you get it, it’s the best book 3 I could possibly make it. The last thing I want is to feel like the last book in the trilogy needed just a little more time, and I’m sure you feel the same way, even if internally you are saying “OMG WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO US, CRUEL AUTHOR?!”
Rest assured, internally I am saying “OMG why can’t I stop time temporarily so that I can work while nothing changes around me?! And while I’m bemoaning the lack of impossible things in my life, why can’t I teleport to Iceland and/or take some magical potion that keeps me from needing to sleep?!” Alas, I have neither time stopping devices nor sleep eliminating potions, and I just have to put my head down and work.
The Dark Lord Interviews Veronica Roth
The Dark Lord interviewed Veronica. You can read an excerpt below, but for the entire thing, CLICK HERE.
LV: Could you briefly describe the plot of Divergent for those non-Ravenclaws who were imperiused into reading this interview and might not have picked up the book yet?
VR: It’s about a girl who lives in futuristic Chicago (a land much different from Hogwarts) that is divided into five factions, each one dedicated to cultivating a particular virtue in its members (which is a lot like Hogwarts, actually): selflessness, bravery, honesty, kindness, or intelligence. She, along with all other sixteen year olds in her society, gets the opportunity to decide whether she wants to stay with her family in the faction she was raised in, or switch to another one. The book is about that choice and its consequences.
LV: JK Rowling has famously said that the idea for Harry Potter “strolled into her head fully formed” on a train ride. Was your experience for this trilogy something similar?
VR: Ha! Not at all. The idea came to me in bits and pieces– simulated realities here, fearless psychopaths there, a huge group of people dressed entirely in gray here, someone jumping off a roof there…until one day, I found a way to put them all together.
What Kind of Tea is Veronica Roth Drinking?
Veronica was interviewed by Zulkey.com. You can read an excerpt of the interview below, but for the entire thing, CLICK HERE.
What are your favorite teas?
All kinds. I drink mostly black tea- right now I’m working my way through some I bought in Jordan earlier this year, and then I’ll probably go back to Irish or English Breakfast. Or Chai. Or Ceylon! Oh man, you have opened up a can of worms…What about Chicago makes for a good literary setting?
I love Chicago. I love it more than any other city. I even love how painfully, disgustingly cold it gets. For me, that makes it a great setting. It’s also an interesting city for a dystopian setting because it’s so clean and organized, compared to a place like New York or Los Angeles–imagining it abandoned and crumbling and destroyed is incredibly interesting. I also find something particularly interesting about the “L”– how almost omnipresent it is, and how constant it is. I love trains generally, but the “L” is spectacular.What’s your favorite “L” line/route?
Red. Is that even a question? (Just kidding.)
The End of INSURGENT will have you on the edge of your seat
After enduring quite a lot more than the average 16-year-old in book one, Tris has even more to grapple with. The problems are now much bigger than her – they impact the society as a whole and cause her to question everything she’s grown up knowing and believing in. I think Veronica Roth does a fantastic job of showcasing Tris’ internal struggle. She matures a lot in this book.
What’s interesting to me – without making too many comparisons – is how she is seen compared to someone like Katniss in the Hunger Games. After the first book, Katniss essentially becomes a celebrity, and the people around her use that celebrity to their advantage.
In Tris’ case, she did some very brave things in book one, but in the grand scheme of things she is not really seen as the “leader” among rebels. She’s important to us, the reader, because the story is told from her perspective. She’s certainly important to a number of other central characters in the book (Tobias aka Four comes to mind first). But she doesn’t really command the awe and admiration of an entire population. At least, not yet. Which is why it makes it even more awesome that by the end of Insurgent, she has made quite a name for herself – literally. That’s all I will say, other than that I have no doubt that her growing notoriety will be a theme that carries over into book three.
Veronica Roth’s attention to detail is also a huge reason why I love these books. Her writing style gets to the point quick, but in doing so unearths a slew of interesting information, not to mention a wildly creative world that actually seems possible. Nothing is too crazy or unrealistic. And the big reveal at the end of the novel will have you sitting on the edge of your seat and sad that you have to wait at least another year (or more) to find out what comes next.
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