![]() ![]() Because, in these types of stories, when the central character latches onto the forbidden fruit, that’s when you’re up until 5 am reading like a maniac because you need to know what happens. Cassia’s urge to get to know one of the boys complicates things and this is when the reader becomes fully emerged in her journey. The novel’s protagonist, Cassia, is a likeable, pretty girl who has been ‘matched’ with not one, but two boys she knows. The governing body, the Society, also ‘matches’ citizens for marriage based on their DNA on their seventeenth birthdays. Via ‘port’, meals with proper caloric distributions are delivered to each home everyday, citizens in the larger cities are asked to sleep with tags on so their dreams can be monitored and data can be collected, and like any totalitarian government: the Officials are watching your every move. Matched depicts an interesting take on a dystopian, post apocalyptic world. Matched is Book One in a trilogy of YA novels based in the future and written by Ally Condie. I guess the moral of this story is any time you give me a totalitarian government mixed with a complex romance, I immediately fall head first into the rabbit hole. (And yes, I love Orwell’s 1984). ![]()
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