Quick Take: This emotionally charged series delves into the lives of interconnected young adults as they grapple with high school’s tumultuous highs and lows. Through the lens of the “wrong side of the tracks” trope, the characters confront challenging life events, evoking a powerful sense of angst and vulnerability.
(more…)Series: Divergent
Release Date: April 25th, 2011
During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles alongside her fellow initiates to live out the choice they have made. Together they must undergo extreme physical tests of endurance and intense psychological simulations, some with devastating consequences. As initiation transforms them all, Tris must determine who her friends really are—and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes exasperating boy fits into the life she’s chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she’s kept hidden from everyone because she’s been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers unrest and growing conflict that threaten to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves . . . or it might destroy her.
Rating: 4/5 stars
(more…)I find it interesting how many different phobias there are out there. They cover common fears to more unique ones, like the fear of sitting in a car.
Yes, that actually is a phobia but to each their own.
So without further ado, here’s a list of some phobias I learned from Need by Carrie Jones:
Phobophobia Fear of having phobias
Mnemophia Fear of memories
Didaskaleinophobia Fear of going to school
Sitophobia Fear of eating
Amaxophobia Fear of riding in a car
Couplogagophobia Fear of being the third wheel
Philophobia Fear of falling in love or being in love
Scotophobia The fear of darkness
Malazophobia Fear of love play
Autophobia Fear of being alone
Phonophobia Fear of noises or voices
Teratophobia Fear of monsters or deformed people
Hormephobia Fear of shock
Algophobia Fear of eating
Pogonophobia Fear of facial hair, mostly beards
Vitricophobia Fear of stepfather
Necrophobia Fear of death
Agateophobia Fear of insanity
Merinthophobia Fear of being bound or tied up
Nyctohylophobia Fear of dark wooded areas or of forests at night
Nosocomephobia Fear of hospitals
Kinetophobia or Kinesophobia Fear of movement or motion
Noctiphobia Fear of the night
Asthenophobia Fear of fainting or weakness
Atychiphobia Fear of failure
Autophobia Fear of oneself
