Matched

Crossed

Reached

 By Ally Condie

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.

I went back and forth on this book if I should read it or not. It had mixed reviews and the few people I knew who read it didn’t care for it much so I was hesitant starting it. After reading it I’m still mixed about it. It was cute and fun kind of different from other books, but slow and dragged a lot. I do like that it wasn’t as dark and violent as the hunger games and divergent category but it was more on the romantic side like the selection and Delirium category.

The idea of this book was for society to make your choices for you to make life simple. Follow the rules and your life would be perfect and happy.

So the first book is all about setting up what life is like inside the society and what happens when you start questioning everything.

 The ending was left kind of unresolved and hinted at a lot of things but never really explained it so I will be reading the next two books in the series to see how it turns out.

The hotly awaited second book in the dystopian Matched trilogy....

In search of a future that may not exist and faced with the decision of who to share it with, Cassia journeys to the Outer Provinces in pursuit of Ky - taken by the Society to his certain death - only to find that he has escaped, leaving a series of clues in his wake.

Cassia's quest leads her to question much of what she holds dear, even as she finds glimmers of a different life across the border. But as Cassia nears resolve and certainty about her future with Ky, an invitation for rebellion, an unexpected betrayal, and a surprise visit from Xander - who may hold the key to the uprising and, still, to Cassia's heart - change the game once again. Nothing is as expected on the edge of Society, where crosses and double crosses make the path more twisted than ever.

I had a harder time reading this book it seemed to be slower and was just a filler of things to build up the last book.

I did enjoy getting to know more about the characters and it brought in more characters that helped move to the story a bit.

What I didn’t care for was, it has some much poetry in it. They use it as kind of a way to communicate so I can see the importance of it but I felt it was a bit overused saying the same one in many chapters.

Overall it was ok, I can see how it fit into the first book and opened up for the third book but nothing too exciting with this one.

After leaving Society and desperately searching for the Rising - and each other - Cassia and Ky have found what they were looking for, but at the cost of losing each other yet again: Cassia has been assigned to work for the Rising from within Society, while Ky has been stationed outside its borders. But nothing is as predicted, and all too soon the veil lifts and things shift once again.

In this gripping conclusion to the number-one New York Times-best-selling Matched Trilogy, Cassia will reconcile the difficulties of challenging a life too confining, seeking a freedom she never dreamed possible, and honoring a love she cannot live without.

So this got a little better than the 2^nd one, which I figured would. It still wasn’t good enough to be a great book I would recommend but good enough to finish the trilogy.

I liked how it moved a little bit faster and got right into the Rising taking over but that was even anti climatic. It happened fast, back fired on them then took the rest of the book to fix things.

I think it also focused way too much on the love part of it and less action of defeating the Society. That’s something else that bugged me the society never really fought back, and then in the end it was meant to happen that way that the Society and the rebellion was basically the same thing, different, but the same. Didn’t make sense. It was like the author couldn’t decide who the enemy should be.

It did clear up some of the confusion of the first book and tied some of it in, but overall it was a very disappointing series.

I listen to most of the books at work and the narration of Ky was awful he sounded like he was 5. Here he was supposed to be Mr. Big hero of the book and he turned out to be pretty whinny and pathetic only thought of how much he loved Cassia. Pretty hard to sell as a strong character when he sounded like he did.