They had their share of human fears (well, maybe a little fewer than their share, but still), and they were certainly flawed people. Tris and Four (should I call him that?) did not find instalove. Just a few power-hungry people is enough to turn any society on its head. And I think in the end, it isn't the system as a whole that is corrupt. However, it is nice to have something different. I have no problems with those books, in any way. I found myself thinking This might actually work as a system! In many, MANY dystopian scifi books, you know straight off that the way of doing things is horrible and cruel, the leadership is tyrannical and/or misguided, etc. At first, the idea of factions based solely on personality, as opposed to skill or region, appealed to me. One of the things that makes this book so unique is how the society isn't noticably dystopian from the beginning. In a time when dystopian scifi is all the rage, it is really hard to find a book that is purely original. And every single time I began to think that, the story shifted and my theories were disproved. There were many times that I thought while reading it this is just like The Hunger Games or I hope this isn't going to be like Matched.
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