Feeding Your Soul

At 16 you have to choose between staying with your family, friends and everyone you grew up with and leaving them all behind, never to see them again.   That is the premise for Divergent by Veronica Roth.   Beatrice “Tris” Prior is a 16 year old girl growing up in dystopian Chicago where the population is divided into 5 factions. Each faction is centered on 1 ideal – Amity (Peaceful), Candor (Honesty), Abnegation (Selfishness), Erudite (Intelligence) and Dauntless (Bravery).      Tris has grown up in Abnegation but has always felt she never belonged. In her 16 th year she has to choose to stay in Abnegation for the rest of her life or choose another faction and never see her family again.   She makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.   The book revolves around Tris, her decision and the consequences both good and bad.   Roth creates a beautiful picture of a dystopian Chicago.   At first Chicago is a separate but equal place to live with each faction living

What would you do if you were Anastasia Steele? Throughout the 3 rd and final book in the Fifty Shades trilogy I found myself asking what I would do if I were in Ana’s shoes? Would I stay with Christian through his insecurities? Would I try and help him push through those walls he has had up since he was 4?   If I loved Christian as much as Ana, my answer would be yes. Love makes us do crazy things but in the end love is what gets us through the day and especially the night.   Freed picks up a few months after the events of Darker – Ana and Christian are married and life couldn’t be happier.   There is still someone following them and threatening them but besides that they are still the loving, happy, crazy couple they have been.   Christian is slowly coming undone due to his love and need for Ana; Ana is becoming more attached to him the more she learns about his past and his mental state.   The book reads more like an action adventure book due to the stalker and situations An