The Sixth Faction: Parts 2 & 3: Spoilers for Chapters 1-23:

I'm continuing my look at the alternative Divergent story-telling: The Sixth Faction. First, a quick follow-up to the question I posed last time re: the missing Abnegation initiate.  I say this Substack posting of Veronica Roth's from July where she mentions that a translator caught an error in the final draft, then shares some notes about how many teens were in Tris's Choosing Ceremony, which leads me to thing the eight-that-should-have-been-nine is an error. So much for my idea that we might eventually meet some unfortunate classmate of Tris's that the Abnegation leadership abducted and disappeared on the walk to the Memory Vault.

I certainly wasn't surprised that Tris did not last long in Abnegation and that her mother was the one who helped her escape. I thought the attempt to memory-wipe her was well-done. I wonder if we will eventually find out that Andrew knows of Tris's divergence and deliberately let her keep her memory.  

Seeing the attempts by the Factionless to organize into their own, self-sustaining city-within-a-city is certainly interesting, as are Caleb's initial struggles in Erudite. It appears that Faction is, in its own way, as ruthless as Dauntless in its Initiation; throwing out one of their own for failure to answer one riddle?  Yikes. 

I also really like the fact that the original relationships are gradually being re-established, including Tris and Four's initial attraction and Christina and Tris's friendship. It was very interesting that, in the absence of Tris, Peter choose to target Christina with his butter knife plot, instead of Edward.  It's nice that we are still meeting Tris's initiate class from the original series, as well as the extended members of Dauntless like Zeke and Shauna. The closer look at Uriah and Zeke's mom and her apparent care for Four was particularly intriguing. The new characters are also interesting, especially the Mender and Mae. 

I’m interested to see what will happen when Tris encounters her father again.

Please comment, but remember that there should be no spoilers for The Sixth Faction Chapter 24 and beyond, please