Four: A Divergent Collection

Divergent Series

Author: Veronica Roth

Pages: 208

Published: 2013

Age: 14+

Four: A Divergent Collection, is a companion volume that includes four pre-Divergent stories told from Tobias Eaton’s point of view. This collection includes the following four e-book short stories: The Transfer, The Initiate, The Son, and The Traitor.

Readers first encountered Tobias Eaton as "Four" in Divergent. His voice is an integral part of Allegiant. Readers will find more of this charismatic character's backstory told from his own perspective in Four: A Divergent Collection. When read together, these long narrative pieces illuminate the defining moments in Tobias Eaton's life.

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.

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.

Exclusive scenes included!

About the Divergent Series

Books in series order

  1. 1.Divergent(2011)
  2. 2.Insurgent(2012)
  3. 3.Allegiant(2013)
  4. +Four: A Divergent Collection(2013)
  5. +Free Four(2012)
  6. +The Initiate(2014)
  7. +The Son(2014)
  8. +The Traitor(2014)
  9. +The Transfer(2013)

Reading age: 13+ years

This series should be read in order.

"What's your name?" "Um..." I don't know why I hesitate. But "Beatrice" just doesn't sound right anymore. A new place, a new name. I can be remade here. "Tris," I say firmly.

In a future Chicago, 16-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomaly who does not fit into any one group. Beatrice must make a decision, however, between staying with her family and being who she really is – she can't have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.

As Beatrice reinvents herself and struggles to fit in with her highly competitive faction, she also hides a dangerous secret. And as she discovers a growing conflict that threatens to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves... or it might destroy her.