Divergent by Veronica Roth

Oohhhh, this is a good book and I can't wait to get the rest of the series.  If you liked The Hunger Games and other books like that you will definately like this series.  This is another series about the government trying to keep control of the people in order to 'maintain peace.'  Unfortunately, as in most books, the leaders are corrupt and have an ulterior motive for the people.

Beatrice Prior is our main heroine who part of the Abnegation faction, a peaceful, selfless group who wears gray and does nothing to attract attention or individualness since their main focus is to put others needs about their own.  There are 4 other factions that students choose to join when they are 16.  Whichever faction they choose is their new home and they give up their family if they choose a different faction.  There is Amity, calm farmers; Erudite, seakers of knowledge; Candor, honesty; and Dauntless, brave.  Beatrice unfortunately finds out after her aptitude tests that she does not belong to any of them but is divergent.  This is not good and the tester erases her scores in order to keep her alive.  Beatrice chooses Dauntless since she does not feel she belongs in Abnegation.

Beatrice is put through a tough initiation and must learn to hide her Divergent abilities.  Luckily for her, these abilities save her in the end when leaders take control and start a war.  We are left at the end of book one with Beatrice stopping the fight, but having to flee for her life to get away from the corrupt leaders.  Definately a must read.