With The Sixth Faction release in the past week, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to finally do a full reread of the Divergent series. I’ve reread Divergent a few years back, but I didn’t pick up Insurgent or Allegiant. So for a decade, what I know about those books is just what they aren’t compared to the movies. And that has to change. This is a series so close to my heart. The first one I ever read. The first book I ever truly fell in love with. Until then, I had no idea how much someone could enjoy a novel. This is an important book series. Their story should be on the tip of my tongue, and it’s a crime it’s not. Divergent Do I really need another review of Divergent? This is the book that I’ve read already 3 times, and every time I do it, I …
Back in 2018, I gave myself for Christmas the Collector’s Edition of the Divergent series. And since then, I’ve been meaning to do a reread of the series. I was also planning another reading log type of post, so I merged both ideas. And I’m glad I did because otherwise, all my thoughts while reading Divergente for the first time since 2016 would be lost. The only thing left was to decide when I was going to read it. And Instagram decided for me. I casually stumbled upon the new 10th Anniversary Editions and… oh my… the artwork is BEAUTIFUL! Now, I want to find a reason to justify spending more money on a series that I already own two copies of (the Movie Tie-in Edition in Portuguese and the Collector’s Edition in English). And maybe, just maybe, rereading the story can give me a reason why I should buy …
Science-fiction and fantasy. Two genres often presented together. Although they couldn’t be more different from each other. And I’m the one to know that. I love one and dislike the other. I never hide it from anyone. And whenever there’s an opportunity, I like to point out that I enjoy keeping a harsh distinction between sci-fi and fantasy. But why do I find them so different? After all, what defines science fiction? Sci-fi, for short, is a wide genre of speculative fiction based on scientific or technological principles. The story can be set in our world or in a galaxy far far away. What makes it sci-fi is the existence of elements explained through laws of physics, even if they don’t exist today. For example, Interstellar. The movie is based around the idea of wormholes and travels between the space and time continuum. So far, that’s only a theory. There …
