Tbh, the only book I have multiple copies of is one that I lost one time while traveling 😭. That shit traumatized me, so I got two copies of the same edition (I love the cover), so that I always have a backup at home 🥹

whispers oh my god, that would explain the messed up relationship with guilt 🤯🤯🤯

It’s so stupid, I’m so annoyed with it. It almost has a message that could make it a proper dystopia (we shouldn’t divide people into factions/divide people based on genetic biases), but Veronica Roth really dropped the ball (there’s a lot of shit so I’ll keep it to just the major points). It’s too bloated with stuff in the middle (why should we care about the uprising of the non-faction people when the evil scientist lady is still trying to kill everyone?!), and she created cartoonishly evil scientists as all of her villains. And they’re shitty scientists! The one in charge of the science faction wants power for power’s sake, and is trying to kill “divergents” for not being normal faction members while trying to upend the whole balanced system the factions were created for; why would she care about divergents when she’s trying to take over the city?? Then the outside scientists apparently messed up human dna and made people have fewer personality traits? (it doesn’t work like that mtherfcker, do some gddmn research). And they are running the city as an experiment to “fix” the dna and make more “divergents”, but even though they have been watching everything they didn’t step in when the science faction lady messed everything up and started killing their divergents. Like, any normal scientist would send you into the sun if you messed up their experiment, especially a long-running one, and we’re supposed to believe they just sat back with popcorn until our protagonist found them?!?