“Two years before
Beatrice Prior makes her choice, the sixteen-year-old son of Abnegation’s
faction leader does the same. Tobias’s transfer to Dauntless is his chance to
begin again. Newly renamed “Four” he discovers that initiation is only the
beginning…
Four must claim his
place in the Dauntless hierarchy. And his decisions will affect future initiates
as well as uncover secrets that could threaten his own future – and the future
of the entire faction system.
Two years later, Four
is poised to act but the course is still unclear. The first new initiate who
jumps into the net might change all that. With her, the way to righting their
world might become clear. With her it might become possible to be Tobias once
again.”
This was a collection of four short stories by Veronica Roth
about the male lead in Divergent, Four. It follows his journey from Abnegation
to Dauntless, highlighting his relationships with various members of Dauntless
– both friendly and hostile. Included at the end of the book were 3 exclusive
scenes that we have already lived from Tris’s perspective entitled “First
Jumper – Tris!”, “Careful, Tris” and “You look good, Tris”.
I loved this book. I felt it gave us a much better
understanding of Tobias and it redeemed him in my eyes – I rather disliked him
by the end of Allegiant (you know you agree with me). It was nice to see him
actually form friendships – the Four in the Divergent trilogy is a total lone
wolf and distanced from everyone.
The short stories nicely tied up loose ends surrounding his
character and events that you knew preceded the original trilogy and this was a
huge pull for me as I love to know every little detail of a storyline. I especially
enjoyed the last short story entitled “The Traitor” and the exclusive scenes as
rereading key parts of Divergent from another perspective really appealed to me
and showed more about Four’s personality than the other books did. Parts of
this actually made me laugh out loud.
I still did not connect with Four/Tobias in the same way I
did with Tris. Whether this was because he was a male (which hasn’t been a
problem for me before) or because I already had an opinion on the character
(which wasn’t a great one) I don’t know – however it is definitely worth a read
for fans of Veronica Roth and Divergent.
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