I don't know why I like Roth's short work better than her novels, but - small sample size aside - so far I do. I find it more focused and more thoughtful. And honestly, Tobias is more interesting to me than Tris, simply because I find him more intelligent. This short is a case in point. Perhaps it's simple bias on my part, because there's rarely anything appealing about the Dauntless faction for me, but his clarity on the worst part of their collective training and/or character was pretty much exactly how I felt about the lot of them through the whole of Divergent.