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‘Divergent’ Author Announces 2 New Books Set In “Alternate Universe”

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'Divergent' Author Announces Two New Books In Series
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'Divergent' Author Announces Two New Books In Series
Fifteen years after launching the 'Divergent' book series, Veronica Roth is returning to the franchise with two new novels.
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thespottedbunny Apr 20, 2026 +78
Alternate universe in which the series has a better second half and ending?
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Suchgallbladder Apr 20, 2026 +72
Soap people live in a dystopian world separated by scent. The Detergent .
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omgFWTbear Apr 20, 2026 +16
Keep going, we need the twist.
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Trowj Apr 20, 2026 +21
The twist: everyone in the society is nose blind…. Except for the few scented detergents
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omgFWTbear Apr 20, 2026 +5
Wait, wait, let’s workshop this… the lemon scented faction doses everyone with nose blinding chemicals; it turns out everyone is actually all smells, they just tend to have a dominant note, which is all the normally *mostly* nose blind can smell! But with the help of the charcoal faction, Fab-Triss realizes that a special few are *equally fragrant, across all the notes!* WE ARE ON TO SOMETHING HERE
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Jimmythedad Apr 20, 2026 +7
When these are done, I will read these instead of the OG books as my first experience.
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Xanaxaria Apr 20, 2026 +16
The first two books are okay. The third book is f****** awful.
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Cerridwenn Apr 20, 2026 +3
Only series I've DNF'd in 15 years.
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Xanaxaria Apr 20, 2026 +8
The last book was f****** awful. I do not trust her to write anything else. I'm all for main characters dying but in this case it made absolutely 0 sense.
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Prior-Assumption-245 Apr 20, 2026 +5
Tris joins a different faction
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togepichikorita Apr 20, 2026 +18
She stays trying to ride Suzanne Collins’ coattails in the dystopian YA novel world. Weird behavior tbh!!!
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AutomaticJeweler5700 Apr 20, 2026 +3
This is silly.
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apark1121 Apr 20, 2026 +3
Or maybe she just felt inspired to write an alternate version of her story and maybe it’s bad faith criticism to constantly compare divergent to the hunger games.
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GeoffAO2 Apr 20, 2026 +4
It’s not bad faith to compare it with genre contemporaries. It’s bad faith to have a YA dystopian series and demand that it be judged in a vacuum. Particularly since it released at time when the genre was getting some incredible stories as well as some incredibly blatant cash grabs. Divergent was fine, but by many readers standards it was not top tier. The competition and comparisons highlight its strengths and its weaknesses.
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PossibleNephilim37 Apr 24, 2026 +1
Yea, bc H.G invented the genre ....
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PenniesDime Apr 20, 2026 +1
Why compare it to that? Divergent was a huge hit and fans want more, and she’s giving it.
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vtsunshine83 Apr 21, 2026 +2
So that means all the female characters are male and all the male characters are female?
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Mermaid_Kiss Apr 20, 2026 +1
Someone tell Mike’s mic 
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PasswordIsDong Apr 20, 2026 +1
So no Curse Bearer book 3?
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Motor-Committee4042 Apr 20, 2026 +1
I have diverged the series, pray I do not diverge it further.
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Aloneinthefart_ Apr 25, 2026 +1
Divergent: The Diverging
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