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[white_hart]

I have one of those "free promotional credit" things from Amazon and for once some of the books on offer sound vaguely interesting but aren't things I already have: Divergent by Veronica Roth, The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell or Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb. Does anyone have any particular recommendations/disrecommendations for any of them?

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[despotliz.livejournal.com]

I got about 70% of the way through Divergent when it was our book club choice, I felt it was basically the Hunger Games with a more contrived setup and characters I was less interested in. I've gone for the Hobb as my freebie.

[white_hart]

I haven't read the Hunger Games yet. Despite which, I've gone for Divergent, because too many people said "don't start there with the Hobb".