“We were learning about exposure therapy, which is a method of treating anxiety and phobias where you get repeatedly exposed to whatever stimulus provokes your fear response until your brain gets used to it,” she tells. It wasn’t until a freshman psychology class at Carleton College that Roth got an initial inkling of writerly inspiration. During her upbringing in the outer Chicago suburb of Barrington, Illinois, she didn’t even explicitly articulate a desire to become an author, though artistic pursuits run in the family her mother, Barbara Ross, is a painter. Roth never set out to create a best-selling YA series.
But does every author from that era want to revisit the series that made them famous? For Veronica Roth, the brain (and fingertips) behind the massive Divergent franchise and author of Poster Girl, published on October 18, looking back is far more complicated. A sequel series to the popular 2000s Maze Runner books also kicks off this fall - and the list goes on. Hunger Games creator Suzanne Collins released a prequel to her bestselling series at the start of the pandemic, while Stephanie Meyer published a companion novel to her smash-hit Twilight around the same time. The fourth story, “The Traitor,” runs parallel with the events of Divergent, giving readers a glimpse into the decisions of loyalty-and love-that Tobias makes in the weeks after he meets Tris Prior.When it comes to the current wave of American aughts nostalgia, the authors of dystopian and paranormal young adult fiction are seizing the moment. The first three pieces in this volume-”The Transfer,” “The Initiate,” and “The Son”-follow Tobias’s transfer from Abnegation to Dauntless, his Dauntless initiation, and the first clues that a foul plan is brewing in the leadership of two factions. When read together, these long narrative pieces illuminate the defining moments in Tobias’s life. Readers will find more of this charismatic character’s backstory told from his own perspective in Four: A Divergent Collection. His voice is an integral part of Allegiant. Readers first encountered Tobias as “Four” in Divergent.
This collection also makes a great pick for fans of the blockbuster movies who want to delve deeper into the character played by Theo James. Fans of the Divergent trilogy by #1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth will be thrilled by Four: A Divergent Collection, a companion volume that includes four pre-Divergent stories plus three additional scenes from Divergent, all told from Tobias’s point of view.
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