A society that might resonate with readers who carry smartphones in their pockets. Similarly, Roth was driven to write a different kind of society - one more 'grounded and realistic' than past concept-driven worlds she dreamed up. Sonya was complicit in and rewarded by a system that caused serious harm, and she doesn’t always see it that way,' Roth said. 'The book came together when I realized I didn’t want to tell a hero’s story I wanted to tell the story of a guilty person. Rather than focus on a heroic figure, as she did in past series, Roth wanted to look at someone considered quite the opposite. See the exclusive cover reveal for 'Poster Girl,' out on Oct. Roth said that the novel sees Sonya 'wake up again.' In doing so, Sonya learns more about her family and the extent to which both she and they were complicit in the old regime. The story starts when an old enemy offers Sonya a deal: If she can find a missing child, she can earn her freedom from the prison she's lived in for years.

The Delegation monitored its citizens through the use of Insight, an ocular implant that tracked a user's words (think a portable and inescapable Big Brother). Her face is an uncomfortable reminder of the Delegation, the surveillance state that had once ruled over the Seattle-Portland area: Sonya was literally a poster girl for the regime's propaganda posters. Instead of watching civil liberties get chipped away, 'Poster Girl' charts the process of a society healing - and Sonya Kantor, the book's main character, is the kind of person who stands in the way of that healing.

''Poster Girl' is about what happens after a dystopian regime falls,' Roth told TODAY in an email interview. Her upcoming mystery novel, 'Poster Girl,' almost falls within the dystopian genre, but not quite - rather than set in a futuristic autocratic society, it's set in the aftermath of a revolution. Veronica Roth, author of the 'Divergent' series, made a name for herself writing dystopian novels.

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