Matched By Ally Condie
***3/5 stars Science Fiction
I gave this book three stars because so many books are like this one. There is always the dystopian world and the love story. Is it so hard to be creative? This book was so similar to The Giver by Lois Lowry, and that was much better. Of course everyone likes this type of story, including me, but after you read this type of story over and over again, you get really bored.
For those who are not bored with this type of story, it is about a girl named Cassia. She lives in the future where the Society dictates everything in the perfect world that they created. The officials--the police in this story--decide who you will marry, what your job is, and when you die. Cassia has just been given her Match, her childhood friend Xander. She is also given a microcard. The card tells her everything that she needs to know about Xander. While Cassia is looking at a picture of Xander on the screen, another face flashes on it. The face is Ky Markham, another boy that Cassia knows. Cassia is faced with the hard decision of choosing to marry Ky and Xander.
I completely agree. In addition to The Giver, I found it very similar to The Hunger Games, which was also a much better book.
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