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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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[antisoppist]

My two elder children enjoy Divergent but they are 14 and 11 and the 11 year-old has only seen the first film, not read it. I've only seen the first film not read it as well. As YA futuristic dystopias go (and I like YA futuristic dystopias) I liked it more than The Hunger Games but The Maze Runner is the one I want to read book 2 of to find out what happens next. But I wouldn't have bothered with any of these if I hadn't had children talking about them.

[white_hart]

I bought The Hunger Games several years ago and still haven't got round to reading it, though I am not averse to YA futuristic dystopias in general. (I also now realise that The Maze Runner is not the same thing as The Kite Runner, which is probably a useful thing to know.)