Book Review: The Sixth Faction

An era ago, I read the Divergent trilogy by Veronica Roth, I loved it at the time, and I distinctly remember struggling not to cry on the train from Seoul to the military base I lived on while reading the ending of the final book. Between the two big YA dystopia books, "Divergent" and "The Hunger Games", I have always liked Divergent better even though it was essentially the trilogy that derailed the YA dystopia genre1. Well, the author has come out with a new book, the first in a duology, that reimagines the series with the main character Tris making a different decision (among other differences). It took me a couple of weeks to acquire it, but I got it last night, read a little bit before D&D, and then spent the majority of today reading the rest. I literally could not put it down, and finished the whole 513 page book in the span of 24 hours. Which doesn't happen very often (partially because I don't have the opportunity all that often). Reading it felt like returning home to the…