Divergent officially makes major comeback 15 years later with a new retconning book

Veronica Roth is revisiting her YA dystopian series in Sliding Doors fashion 15 years after the dystopian novel, Divergent, took the world of young adult literature by storm, author Veronica Roth is returning once again to the city of Chicago and the factions where Beatrice Prior’s story first began. On April 18, 2026, at New York Book Con, Veronica Roth announced that The Sixth Faction (billed to readers on the cover as “A New Divergent Series”) will be available for fans to read in October 2026. Here’s the twist: The Sixth Faction is not a sequel or prequel to any of the books in the original Divergent trilogy, but a total re-imagining of the story from the ground up. Rather than choosing to live in Dauntless (one of the five factions that exist within the world), as she does in Divergent, Beatrice Prior will make a different decision, one that will alter the course of her fate and, undoubtedly, the fates of other characters in the series as well. The choice to tell a story from another character’s perspective, especially in the Young Adult book world, is not entirely unheard of. Roth herself wrote a collection set within the world of Divergent told from Tobias Eaton’s perspectiv