However, later on, when she opens the file that contains more information about Xander, the photo inside is not his: it is that of another boy, another boy she KNOWS: Ky. Cassia is delighted because after all she has known and loved Xander for a long time and trusting that the Society has made no mistakes, she knows she will love him as a Match too. This is a surprise because usually a person is Matched to someone they don’t know. To her surprise, in a rare occurrence, she is Matched to her best friend Xander. It is the latter that the protagonist is about to experience when the story starts: she has turned 17 and is about to be Matched to the person who she will eventually marry to.
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Based on their expertise at statistics, The Society runs and controls everything: from what songs you can hear, what movies you can watch to what artefacts from the old days you can have from what job you will do to deciding how many hours of free time you have from setting a curfew to sending pre-cooked food everyday to your house from deciding when a person will die (at 80), to deciding who you will marry. The premise for Matched is thus: at some undisclosed point in the future people live in what they perceive to be a Utopia. Another thing to take into consideration when reading this review: I haven’t read a lot of Dystopian fiction and out of the few I did, The Giver by Lois Lowry is definitely my favourite and the one that is most fresh in my mind. Because of all that, when the time came for this joint, I will admit to having mixed expectations. Then, I saw the author on a panel at Book Expo America and enjoyed what she had to say and it seemed that the focus of the book was actually the dystopian society that the characters live in and I ended up pursuing an ARC. Then I read the blurb and thought it sounded too focused on the love triangle (and I do not like those) and decided it wasn’t for me. I first saw the cover months ago and really liked it. Matched proved to be a veritable rollercoaster, even before I started the book. And, when November finally rolled around, it was time for a good ol’ fashioned Smuggler Joint Review. Why did we read this book: We both had Matched on our radars for a while, and when we got the chance to listen to author Ally Condie talk about her book at BEA this year, we knew we had to get ARCs.
How did we get this book: ARCs from the publisher, picked up at BookExpo America 2010
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Stand alone or series: Book one in a planned series 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. 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. until she sees Ky Markham’s face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black. So when Xander’s face appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is her ideal mate.
Genre: Young Adult, Dystopia, Speculative FictionĬassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe.
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