If Tris choosing Dauntless over Abnegation and resisting Jeanine’s faction control hooked you, you’ll be drawn to Katniss defying the Capitol’s engineered order. Like the Dauntless capture-the-flag and fear simulations, the arena’s deadly tests force quick thinking and gutsy alliances. You’ll feel the same charge you got from train-jumping and rooftop leaps as Katniss turns a rigged spectacle into a spark of revolt.

Loved the Dauntless initiation—the knife-throwing, the sparring, the fear landscapes, and jockeying for rank under Four’s watch? Darrow’s time at the Institute is that turned up to eleven, with war-game houses, backstabbing teams, and a leaderboard that decides who survives. It captures the same rush as Tris fighting for her place, but with even higher stakes and a viciously strategic edge.

If Tris’s Divergent status and her refusal to fit neatly into Abnegation, Erudite, or Dauntless spoke to you, Tally’s fight against a society that mandates a ‘Pretty’ transformation will hit the same nerve. As Tris defies the Choosing Ceremony’s boxes and the simulation tests, Tally discovers the hidden cost of conformity and must decide who she is when the system demands she be someone else.

If you admired Tris’s grit—scaling the Ferris wheel, outmaneuvering rivals in Dauntless training, and uncovering Jeanine’s conspiracy—June Iparis will be your next favorite. A brilliant prodigy, June hunts the Republic’s most wanted criminal and peels back a cover-up that mirrors the rot behind the faction system. She’s as sharp and determined as Tris, balancing intellect with daring action.

If the nonstop pace of Dauntless initiation—train-jumping, zip-lining over the chasm, and gauntlet-like rankings—kept you turning pages, Thomas’s sprint through the ever-shifting Maze will do the same. The Glade’s timed runs, deadly Griever chases, and cliffhanger reveals deliver the same breathless momentum that made Tris’s fear-scape showdowns so addictive.