Matched and crossed

 

Currently I am reading the second book in the Matched trilogy and hope to get my hands on the third book soon. I've really enjoyed the books and Ally Condie is an amazing writer. I would personally suggest these books to all of my "peeps", but I do have to warn you that since the first book is on the Gate Way Readers Awards book list for this year that they are fairly hard to get.

The stories are told from the perspective of a young girl named Cassia, who had just turned 17 and had lived in the society her whole life. The society is a place of perfection and almost no death, a place where you are matched with your life partner and your job when you’re 17, and a place where you don't know how to provide and think for yourself.

 

The society was created, as far as the people know as a protection from the evils of the world, but cassia soon learns that, that statement doesn't hold to be entirely true. The trouble began when in the first book cassia was matched with her best friend Xander and another boy, Ky. The matching of two people was simple, when you turned 17 your name was put in a sorting that would sort people based on who they are with their perfect match, but cassia’s sort went a little differently than most. Most people when they are matched are rarely matched with someone in their own region better yet with their best friend, Xander and another boy also from her region but of a lower status, Ky, they are usually matched with someone entirely new from another place and have to learn of them from that moment until they die.

 

The first book mainly deals with her trials of love and hardship and applying what she learns though them to the society and what she thought it was to learn of what it really is. Then in the second book deals with the rebellion and the crucial part that she plays in taking down the society. I don’t want to give too many spoilers so I’m probably going to end with an encouragement to, PLEASE READ THEASE BOOKS!