I'm reading Divergent by Veronica Roth right now and from the first chapter, the book has me hooked. I'm about 60% of the way right now (can you tell I'm reading on a Kindle?) and my early affection for the book is a bit more muted, but I'm still hooked.

I find the events of the book pretty realistic (and periodically horrifying) given Roth's world-building.

For those who liked Hunger Games, I recommend it.

I read that and REALLY liked it. The sequel (Insurgent) is pretty good, too, and sets up the last book in the trilogy (which I think is supposed to be out in October) really well.

Yep, I really enjoyed the first two in that series as well. I liked the fact that Roth resists the Hunger Games temptation to make the female protagonist a bleak, empty shell of herself as the story progresses.

I've been wondering whether those books were good since they seem to be the new Hunger Games in terms of popularity and getting a movie made out of them. I may check them out once the whole trilogy's done.

I almost didn't read a EW article on the movie because it was so Next Hunger Games, but the pictures did really look fun.

Thing is, plot-wise it isn't really much like Hunger Games.

plot-wise it isn't really much like Hunger Games

I don't think most of the Next Hunger Games are, so I'm not sure why they hit that angle in sympathetic messaging. I'm sufficiently not stupid that I can make an actual call. Please to treat me that way. I just stopped and thought if any of the NHG had been all that Hunger Gamey in a way I thought derivative or boring, remembered no, and then cracked the dumb magazine.

I guess whoever she is would love to be the next Jennifer Lawrence, but that's about it.

Well, Shailene Woodley does have an Oscar nomination of her own, so she's on track.

Maybe they are hoping this movie will make a lot of $$ like HG did and that's why they are marketing it similarly? Weird shit.

YA dystopia is YA dystopia. You think marketing won't seize on a superficial similarity and push it like hell?