Monday, January 3, 2011

MATCHED by Ally Condie

Cassia is excited about her Match banquet.  What 17-year-old girl wouldn't be?  It is at this banquet that Cassia will find out who she will marry.  Usually, the matched couple have never met, and they spend some time getting to know each other before they marry, but Cassia is lucky, she knows her match.  In fact, she has been friends with Xander for most of her life.  He is a perfect match.  Or is he?  Why, for just a second, does she see another boy's face on the matching screen?  Cassia knows this boy, Ky, as well, and she finds herself drawn to him in ways that she is not attracted to Xander.  But Society does not allow people to make choices like this.  When Cassia shares a poem with Ky that is not one of the 100 approved poems, the two of them become involved with each other and with a political movement that questions the predetermined life that Society has created for them.

Readers who liked The Hunger Games series will enjoy this book as well.  Matched is the first book of a planned trilogy.

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