Book Review: Four - Veronica Roth

After falling in love with the book Divergent, drooling over the attractive selection of Dauntless males in the movie adaptation I proceeded to buy the rest of the books in the trilogy and set them on my bookshelf to promptly read. Which didn't happen. Then I heard from some YouTube beauty guru who also enjoys literature (I forget now who) mentioned Veronica Roth wrote a book from Four's perspective of Divergent. On my next Target trip I made sure that book made it out the door in my grocery sack.

I had wanted to read it before the sequels to Divergent, but then remembered it had been a while since I had both read the book or seen the movie and decided  I needed a refresher of the plot line before reading Four's take on it all. 

Come to find out it's a collection of stories, the majority centering on his transition from Tobias in the abusive Abnegation home of his father to his miraculous (As in there hasn't been a Stiff who made the switch to Dauntless in quite some time, if at all) first place finish as Four in the Dauntless initiate class when he turned 16. In the ending of the book (not including the extras) is a chapter where he interacts with Tris and we see his perspective of some events where she is involved. 

Four is as intelligent and deep as I thought while reading Divergent and Insurgent. His actions are calculated and have substantial backing to them. He's an intelligent character and it's great to see the beginnings of it. 

The chapters were broke up well and though consecutive were not back to back events. They provided a good snippet into Four's experiences in Dauntless and the explanation for why he does the things he does in Divergent. 

I wish other authors would do this for other protagonists in their story. Though I do understand that not all characters have as strong a connection with their authors as others. 

Until next time

-Samantha