Veronica Roth

A Divergent Story Collection

Four

Grace Sinks

One thing I know: For helping me forget how awful the world is, I prefer her to alcohol.

Then she slips her fingers between mine, and I stare at her, startled. I squeeze her hand, lightly, and it registers through my turmoil and my exhaustion that though I've touched her half a dozen times-each one a lapse in judgment-this is the first time she's ever done it back. 

Then she turns and runs to catch up with her friends. 

And I stand in the hallway, alone, grinning like an idiot. 

"It's over," I say, wincing — she punches harder than she realizes. I ignore the pain and run a hand over her hair. because I'm stupid, and inappropriate, and stupid…

For some reason, my first thought is her, her wide eyes staring at me from the recesses of my memory.

Complete your Divergent library with Four! Fans of the Divergent series 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. Readers first encountered Tobias 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'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. Includes three exclusive scenes!

Four: A Divergent Collection

Emily Mackey

Such a good book. It's refreshing to see Divergent and Four's story told in his point of view. Very well written!

#1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth retells a pivotal Divergent scene (chapter 13) from Tobias's point of view. This thirteen-page scene reveals unknown facts and fascinating details about Four's character, his past, his own initiation, and his thoughts about new Dauntless initiate Tris Prior. And don't miss The Fates Divide, Veronica Roth's powerful sequel to the bestselling Carve the Mark!

Tobias Tells the Divergent Knife-Throwing Scene

Free Four

Rahmat Junaid

I really enjoyed it but I wish it was longer.

nina 

Really how could I give this book with this title anything other than what I did. I really liked Four a lot more in this than in Allegiant

This is the worst book I have read in a long time. The writing was so vague and non descriptive. The plot felt pointless. This whole book felt pointless. I’d be curious to revisit the Divergent book to see if it’s anywhere close to as bad as this was. Disappointing show Ms. Roth. 

cedar winslow

I would read literally anything from this mans perspective. 

Sarah Campbell

Lisa Sepulveda

This was an interesting read, to see the chain of events from the trilogy happen through an alternate perspective was refreshing and gave light to small questions I wanted to be answered in regard to Evelyn and Marcus and life in dauntless prior to Tris. I think what I wanted from Novella was more of Just Tobias and his like before dauntless rather than just his choosing ceremony through meeting Tris. but all and all it was an enjoyable read after the heart break of Allegiant.

Joy Bush

I love seeing things from Four's POV more so than from Tris's. 
What is it about a guys POV that makes everything seem more special? *sigh* Wish it could be so easy in real life. 

Great book, gives more depth to the character from 2 years prior to where Divergent starts and goes over some favorite Four + Tris scenes from Divergent. 

highly recommend.

MORE MORE MORE!!!!!!!!! It was just 1 chapter and WAY too short!
I <3 when authors let us read from the lead male POV. 




************SPOILERS************

Ive started book 3 and the chapters so far switch POV from Tobias to Tris.

Nessa Luna

Read this review, and many more on my blog October Tune!

When I found out that Veronica Roth was writing short stories from Four/Tobias' point of view, I knew I had to read those. At first, they were supposed to be released as separate ebooks, but after a while it was announced that they were going to be published together as an actual book. I pre-ordered my copy as soon as I could and a couple of days after the release date, I started reading it.

The book has four (hehe) stories told from Four's point of view, called 'The Transfer', 'The Initiate', 'The Son', and 'The Traitor'. I had read the Transfer already before I found out that it was going to become one book, and I had liked it. Though I still thought he sounded a lot like Tris. Of course, I understand that it might be hard to write a story from multiple POV's, and trying to not make them sound the same, but I don't think Veronica Roth did a very good job with it. Still, I loved reading about Four's transfer, and his initiation process.

The Traitor was basically a brief summary of Divergent, but then through Four's eyes. A bit like Hana was Delirium through Hana's eyes. I liked it, I liked reading several scenes from Divergent but through Four's eyes, I liked how he was trying to find out what was going on between Max and Jeanine and yeah, I just liked it very much! We didn't get a lot of new conversations or scenes, mostly the conversations between Tris and Four were the same ones we'd read about in Divergent, but I can't say that I was disappointed by it. I had expected it, and though I would have loved a complete new scene between the two, one that we hadn't read about in any of the books, I am happy with what we got!

As usual, the writing was very good, I just really like Roth's writing a lot! I got through the stories very easily, and eventually halfway through the book I just put it down so I wouldn't finish it in one day, because I wanted to savour it. Divergent is one of my favourite book series of all time, and this is the last book in that series, so I wanted to save the last pages. Still, I got through it very fast, and I enjoyed every minute of it. And the cover, oh wow I am in love with the covers of the Divergent series; but this one is just amazing. The ferris wheel! (view spoiler)[(Okay tiny bit disappointed that we didn't get that scene from his POV, shh). (hide spoiler)]

The only thing I didn't like, was that I had thought the Free Four story would be in here as well, but it wasn't. I had read it already of course, but I was under the impression that it would be in the book as well, so I could reread it again. But alas, it was not.

Still, no harm done, and I enjoyed Four, a DIvergent Collection a lot. Now I am going to lie down in a ball and try to not think about the fact that this series is now over.

Vilandra

I really enjoyed getting to read this scene from Four’s perspective- he was always the mire interesting character to me anyway.

Including stories told from Tobias Eaton's point of view, Four is a companion volume to the internationally bestselling Divergent series that inspired a series of major motion pictures starring Shailene Woodley. This special 10th anniversary edition features beautiful reimagined cover art from award-winning illustrator Victo Ngai.

the whole series should have just been the first 3/4ths of divergent and then most of this book … it still doesn’t make sense to me that tris died for no reason

I literally LOVE divergent so this book was so fun and easy to read since I’m so familiar with the world of divergent and the characters etc. It tells Four’s back story and even eventually lines up with Tris toward the beginning of her training. I recommend to all divergent lovers who want to continue the story :)  

Jonah Watts 

I literally LOVE divergent so this book was so fun and easy to read since I’m so familiar with the world of divergent and the characters etc. It tells Four’s back story and even eventually lines up with Tris toward the beginning of her training. I recommend to all divergent lovers who want to continue the story :)  

*Read it in a day :p 

devin.reads

This just made me want to go back and read the series all over again! I love Tris and Four SO much!

Eva Idsøe

It is wounderful to read the story from tje other side.

Thais Souza Passos

TOBIAS <33333333333333333333333333333333333333333333 HIS POV <333333333333333333333333333333333 I MEAN <44444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444

Amelia Cohen

Amazing! Perhaps the only book other than the original, Divergent, that I can stand! He is probably one of the best boyfriends in book history and I loved getting to read about his story and point of view.

Complete your Divergent library with Four! 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. 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. Readers first encountered Tobias 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'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. Also includes three additional scenes from Divergent, told from Tobias's point of view! And don't miss The Fates Divide, Veronica Roth's powerful sequel to the bestselling Carve the Mark!

conhecer a história da perspetiva do four foi NECESSÁRIO 

taci

conhecer a história da perspetiva do four foi NECESSÁRIO 

recomendo imenso ler este spin off

I didn’t like divergent very much liked the movies more than the books which is very rare for me. 

Super short, good insight into his emotions I like four a lot

Jaclyn

Eve F

After finishing the whole series I still can't decide if I loved it or not. I can say tho, that I am glad I read it.
Now, specifically for this book...
It was so slow and overwhelmingly unnecessary. But I loved the fact that I could kind of experience their love story from scratch, forgetting for a moment how much the ending broke me.
And that's why I give it 3 stars. I am glad that now I can leave the series, which made me feel so many emotions, with a happy aftertaste.

Stefanie Sugia

Four: A Divergent Collection contains 4 short stories written in the perspective of Four/Tobias Eaton. In my opinion, it is better to read the trilogy first before going into this book; because without understanding the world and what happened in the trilogy, I think it will be quite confusing. And I'm actually a bit ashamed for taking such a long time to finish this short book. I guess it's because I already knew most of the things told in this book from the trilogy; but this time, we get to see what Four's thoughts are and how he felt about certain things. I am going to briefly summarize each story and then write a short review about what I think about this book :))
"Today he's trying to protect my ear from getting nicked by clippers, and yesterday he took a belt to me. The thought feels like poison working through me. It's almost funny. I almost want to laugh." 
"I have a new name, which means I can be a new person. Someone who doesn't put up with cutting comments from Erudite know-it-alls. Someone who can cut back.
Someone who's finally ready to fight. 

  The Transfer

The first short story takes us to the time before Tobias Eaton's Choosing Day. Before the strong and brave Four, there's Tobias with all his insecurities and fear towards his father. Choosing Day is a really big day for him, because it's when he got the chance to be free. This story is about Tobias' big decision to transfer to another faction; one of the few people who transferred from Abnegation...

Read the full review here:
http://www.thebookielooker.com/2014/1...

Charmaine

Flavia Louise

3.5 stars
I won't rate every story here because I didn't really think about it while I read but I will say that I preferred the first third stories over the rest of the book. I did enjoy entering this world again after literally years since I read the trilogy but it didn't really blow me away hence the rating.

Four A Divergent Story Collection

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