Book Review: Matched

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.

All over the blogsphere, everyone was raving about this book and how good it was, but when I came on goodreads - not many people liked it. In some ways I can see how and in others I really liked it.

In Matched we are introduced to a new society where everything is decided for you. It's not completely bad to the point when it makes you cringe at just reading, but you can tell that we have way more freedom then they do. Now, it's not like Cassia starts a whole new rebellion or anything like that. The true rebellion that occurs in this book was basically in her thoughts. She is matched with her best friend Xander meaning she is expected to marry him and live the rest of her life with him, but when she sees the possibity of Ky - she can't stop thinking about him which is completely unheard of to her.

She soon comes to the realization that she wants to be with Ky and wishes she could really choose who she wants to be with.

This is the basic idea of this book. It's not action packed like the Hunger Games, but it doesn't get as boring as people potray it to be. It basically just introduces the characters and the new world to us and how everything works in this society. I do admit that in the beginning the characters didn't seem to have much of a personality to me. People even prefered Xander over Ky because they thought that Xander was much more developed than Ky. I kind of disagree with this. I felt that Ky had more personality and depth to him than Xander who was just some cookie cutter of a perfect boy. We learn much about Ky through his stroies to Cassia and not much through him talking and such and I found that much more interesting than just Xander and his boyish charms.

I'm sure that we will see much more personality and raw feelings in the books to come because not Cassia is really started to trust her inner self and do what she cooses to do. I really look foreward to the next book andf I hope all of you give this book a chance. :]

4 out of 5 stars!
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