Margaret Duarte

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DIVERGENT and Visionary Fiction, Factions Apart

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Violence aside, I would gladly welcome the dystopian sci-fi novel Divergent into the visionary fiction “faction.”

Veronica Roth deserves her New York Times Bestselling Author status. She deserves her book’s 13,236 Amazon reviews (9,524 of which are five stars). She deserves her book sales of over eleven million.

All these accolades are merited because Divergent is fast-paced, well told, and pumps out enough what-ifs and why-nots to satisfy the “Erudite” in all of us. In other words, Divergent is a good read.

Visit Visionary Fiction Alliance (my VF community blog) to find out why I cannot call Divergent visionary fiction, why indeed they are factions apart.

Thanks as always for stopping by,

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About Margaret Duarte

Former middle school teacher, Margaret Duarte, lives on a California dairy farm with a herd of “happy cows,” a constant reminder that the greenest pastures lie closest to home. Margaret earned her creative writing certificate through UC Davis Extension and has since published four novels in her “Enter the Between” visionary fiction series: Between Will and Surrender, Between Darkness and Dawn, Between Yesterday and Tomorrow, and Between Now and Forever. Her poem and story credits include SPC Tule Review; The California Writers Club Literary Review; finalist in the 2017 SLO Nightwriters Golden Quill Writing Contest; First Place winner for fiction in 2016, Second Place winner for fiction in 2018, Honorable Mention for fiction in 2019, and Gold winner for fiction in 2020 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLISHERS AND AUTHORS Book Awards Competition; 2019 California Author Project winner for adult fiction.

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  1. Rosi Hollinbeck says

    I don’t like science fiction — until I read a really good one. I’m not a fantasy person — until I read one I really like. In other words, a good book is a good book. I think we’re all on the same page here. I sure have heard a lot about this book. Maybe I’ll get to it soon.

  2. Margaret Duarte says

    I enjoyed every minute of it Rosi, the movie a bit less so, but still good. If you get a chance, visit the link to Visionary Fiction Alliance above and get a glimpse of the Pandora’s Box I opened with this post!