Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe. So when Xander’s face appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is her ideal mate… until she sees Ky Markham’s face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black. The Society tells her it’s a glitch, a rare malfunction, and that she should focus on the happy life she’s destined to lead with Xander. But Cassia can’t stop thinking about Ky, and as they slowly fall in love, Cassia begins to doubt the Society’s infallibility and is faced with an impossible choice: between Xander and Ky, between the only life she’s known and a path that no one else has dared to follow.
Stars: 3/5
I’m really not sure what to think of this book. It has a good (if not somewhat typical) plot line. It was more Cassia and Ky that I didn’t really care for. Cassia can be somewhat annoying in her indecisiveness and both Cassia and Ky are a bit intense in there sudden love. The Society reminds me a lot of Big Brother from George Orwell’s 1984, which is the somewhat typical plot line I was referring too, it seems most dystopian fantasy books these days have a Big Brother thing, though Matched more than the others has that feel. While the book has a simplistic and easy to follow plot line I still find myself confused by things, I don’t feel that certain situations and thoughts were always completely developed, it’s like we only got part of the thought process instead of the whole. I’m going to finish the series because I am intrigued, but I can only hope Crossed and Reached are better are more thought out and developed.
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