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Fifteen years aft launching nan Divergent book series, Veronica Roth is returning to nan franchise pinch 2 caller novels.
On Saturday, nan writer announced astatine BookCon successful New York City that she’s written a caller companion duology, group successful an “alternate universe” successful which nan books’ young heroine Tris didn’t take Dauntless.
“Not a prequel, not a sequel, not a spinoff, not a different POV but an alternate beingness of Divergent wherever Tris chooses a different faction,” explained Roth to USA Today. “I deliberation nan mobility of ‘who is Tris without Dauntless’ is an absorbing one.”
Although The Sixth Faction, disposable April 18, tin beryllium publication arsenic a standalone book, Roth is peculiarly looking guardant to franchise fans’ guidance to this caller position connected nan character.
Whereas nan original book trilogy saw Tris take Dauntless, nan faction of bravery, successful The Sixth Faction, calamity strikes astatine her Choosing Ceremony, wherever her determination thrusts her into an underground rebellion. There, she meets a mysterious boy named Tobias ‘Four’ Eaton, Tris’ emotion liking successful nan original books.
“For existing fans, I’m excited for them to spot really nan aged and nan caller fold together,” Roth teased. “You’d deliberation that definite things wouldn’t hap because she makes a different faction choice, but she does find her measurement to nan aforesaid people. Seeing really that happens is simply a really nosy portion of it.”
In nan original books, Divergent (2011), Insurgent (2012) and Allegiant (2013), Tris Prior is simply a teen woman surviving successful post-apocalyptic Chicago, wherever nine is divided into 5 factions. Finding retired that she’s Divergent, which intends she doesn’t beryllium to conscionable 1 faction, Tris must conceal her position arsenic a warfare brews.
Shailene Woodley starred arsenic Tris successful nan Lionsgate movie adaptations, Divergent (2014), The Divergent Series: Insurgent (2015) and The Divergent Series: Allegiant (2016), pinch a planned last installment, Ascendant, which was ne'er made.
Roth expanded connected nan books pinch nan 2014 short communicative postulation Four, arsenic good arsenic nan 2018 short We Can Be Mended, some of which were told from Four’s perspective.
