Allegiant

—SLJ

"With brisk pacing and lavish flights of imagination, DIVERGENT clearly has thrills, but it also movingly explores a more common adolescent anxiety-the painful realization that coming into one's own sometimes means leaving family behind, both ideologically and physically."

—NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

"Nonstop, adrenaline-heavy action. Packed with stunning twists and devastating betrayals."

—BCCB

"DIVERGENT is really an extended metaphor about the trials of modern adolescence: constantly having to take tests that sort and rank you among your peers, facing separation from your family, agonizing about where you fit in, and deciding when (or whether) to reveal the ways you may diverge from the group."

—WALL STREET JOURNAL

"This gritty, paranoid world is built with careful details and intriguing scope. The plot clips along at an addictive pace, with steady jolts of brutal violence and swoony romance. Fans snared by the ratcheting suspense will be unable to resist speculating on their own factional allegiance."

—KIRKUS REVIEWS

"You'll be up all night with DIVERGENT, a brainy thrill-ride of a novel."

—BOOKPAGE

To Jo,

who guides and steadies me

EPIGRAPH (#ulink_ae0f196b-edcc-5f66-8dad-588af3935744)

Every question that can be answered must be

answered or at least engaged.

Illogical thought processes must be

challenged when they arise.

Wrong answers must be corrected.

Correct answers must be affirmed.

—From the Erudite faction manifesto

CONTENTS

Cover (#u033ba363-facd-53ba-8487-848ff7ec91c7)

Title page (#u87d46dbf-0ab2-58f7-b117-6ebcdaad7249)

Copyright (#ulink_d539bbad-5914-54d3-a411-e64c8be9ec8d)

Praise (#u0ef0e9a9-7704-59a8-9f69-bae930b90ee8)

Dedication (#u4d24348c-d30c-516c-b206-47ca348ff977)

Epigraph (#u74e7f12b-7e1e-5b05-b29a-08aca8c2780f)

Chapter One (#ulink_3a7dd696-56c8-54df-9807-fc4d31b817c1)

Chapter Two (#ulink_1ad60ed2-ed15-57e0-86d3-63821a6da143)

Chapter Three (#ulink_00831981-e6ac-5496-accd-5da2b6b76c8d)

Chapter Four (#ulink_07cacd8d-e110-5919-96ca-69aa9850ac9b)

Chapter Five (#ulink_f4a3ebd9-6a4c-5b6b-a9ce-7df9da74658c)

Chapter Six (#ulink_a9442b0b-5e52-5e99-83d2-6ad1f4d21fcb)

Chapter Seven (#ulink_9ff7f0a6-0a1d-549c-9226-a449f200406a)

Chapter Eight (#ulink_bed679b5-b4f5-50f9-8ebc-5bf1558faaff)

Chapter Nine (#ulink_8a18f9d6-7e21-57f8-8730-45043c59f6d7)

Chapter Ten (#ulink_bcfc9332-c786-5bb3-92e8-40746fc611ab)

Chapter Eleven (#ulink_2848a3c8-823c-5093-923a-dc7c10107094)

Chapter Twelve (#ulink_d7593e32-5b85-532a-a9ad-28bda3c9f9ba)

Chapter Thirteen (#ulink_e3cfd718-398c-5128-94b0-1519e4f46d78)

Chapter Fourteen (#ulink_3e0c42e4-0c0c-5222-b7f0-17a806ed5a3b)

Chapter Fifteen (#ulink_58d7b08a-2a4d-59b1-9758-f1a4903efd67)

Chapter Sixteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seventeen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eighteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nineteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-One (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Two (#litres_trial_promo)