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3.23 AVERAGE
3.23 AVERAGE
I can sum up this book in 6 sentences
You're welcome for saving you 367 pages of reading. Now on to the third. I hope it's better.
Spoiler
Cassia and Ky look for each other. They find each other. She wants to join the Rising. He doesn't but does anyway. Xander is part of the rising. They get separated at the end despite ALL THAT TIME looking for each other and mooning about.You're welcome for saving you 367 pages of reading. Now on to the third. I hope it's better.
I liked this book the best out of the 3. It was more fast paced to me
Maybe 2.5! Disappointing follow up. Not nearly as good as book one. I don't know if I wanna read the next one.
Originally posted at: http://girlzandtheirbooks.blogspot.com/2012/07/review-crossed-by-ally-condie.html
~Review:
Crossed was kind of the answer to my prayers...relating to the Matched Trilogy. As you remember(if you saw my review of Matched) I mentioned that Matched lacked some depth. Well Hallelujah!! This book had depth!! A whole new depth to depth ;) You finally got more information of the Society and how it came to be. And you got more depth from the characters.
Cassia is strong in this book. She has to be. I loved her! She is no longer an empty vesicle.Cassia is who she is and is comfortable with that and is willing to go to any extremes to find Ky. She is no longer the Societies little robot. No. She is rebellious!! I loved to read from her POV! Oh! And speaking of POV's!! Did anyone know that this book was alternating POV's?? Alternating POV's from both Cassia and uhem!!!....KY!!!!! :O
Ya. Awesome right!? I love Ky. He is the only one who has had depth from book 1 and he is the reason this book goes into deeper than deep in depth! Every thing about this boy is so good!! Loved Loved! Reading from Ky's perspective. Oh and be for warned... *spoiler* Even though Xander isn't in this book...you still have that love triangle goin on. EEp!! I loved getting more about Xander! I think that was my favorite part. You got to see him...HIM! And sides/stories you never saw coming! Idk bout my teams ya'll ;) Xander just got hotter than hott with a touch of secrets adding to a bad-boy rep muahah
The only thing that bugged me througout the book was the "Enemy". For starters....they all of a sudden showed up. In thin air! Out of absolutely no where in book 1. And it still failed to be explained in book 2. I understand they are a bit of a mystery but come on! From all the talk about everything else....as much as everyone seems to know about the Rebellion, the Pilot, the Society...no one knows why there even is an Enemy? When they started? Why they started? Seriously!!? Ya, it bugged. But not enough to ruin the book for me. And then the end...who in the flipping world is 'him" and it wasn't just in the end. Throughout the book there would be a mysterious "him/her" spoken about but you knew nothing about who it was! And no, it wasn't mysterious.
Altogether this book was just what I needed to save the Match trilogy for me. Crossed is poetically beautiful with its adventurous tale of finding yourself in a world where you are told who to be; to fight for the things you were never supposed to love; and to make the decisions that may or may not just save your life. I really loved Crossed and am looking forward to see how its all going to end in Reached. :D
~Rating:
4 stars!
Thanks for stopping by!
Have a great day!! :)
~Jaiden
~Review:
Crossed was kind of the answer to my prayers...relating to the Matched Trilogy. As you remember(if you saw my review of Matched) I mentioned that Matched lacked some depth. Well Hallelujah!! This book had depth!! A whole new depth to depth ;) You finally got more information of the Society and how it came to be. And you got more depth from the characters.
Cassia is strong in this book. She has to be. I loved her! She is no longer an empty vesicle.Cassia is who she is and is comfortable with that and is willing to go to any extremes to find Ky. She is no longer the Societies little robot. No. She is rebellious!! I loved to read from her POV! Oh! And speaking of POV's!! Did anyone know that this book was alternating POV's?? Alternating POV's from both Cassia and uhem!!!....KY!!!!! :O
Ya. Awesome right!? I love Ky. He is the only one who has had depth from book 1 and he is the reason this book goes into deeper than deep in depth! Every thing about this boy is so good!! Loved Loved! Reading from Ky's perspective. Oh and be for warned... *spoiler* Even though Xander isn't in this book...you still have that love triangle goin on. EEp!! I loved getting more about Xander! I think that was my favorite part. You got to see him...HIM! And sides/stories you never saw coming! Idk bout my teams ya'll ;) Xander just got hotter than hott with a touch of secrets adding to a bad-boy rep muahah
The only thing that bugged me througout the book was the "Enemy". For starters....they all of a sudden showed up. In thin air! Out of absolutely no where in book 1. And it still failed to be explained in book 2. I understand they are a bit of a mystery but come on! From all the talk about everything else....as much as everyone seems to know about the Rebellion, the Pilot, the Society...no one knows why there even is an Enemy? When they started? Why they started? Seriously!!? Ya, it bugged. But not enough to ruin the book for me. And then the end...who in the flipping world is 'him" and it wasn't just in the end. Throughout the book there would be a mysterious "him/her" spoken about but you knew nothing about who it was! And no, it wasn't mysterious.
Altogether this book was just what I needed to save the Match trilogy for me. Crossed is poetically beautiful with its adventurous tale of finding yourself in a world where you are told who to be; to fight for the things you were never supposed to love; and to make the decisions that may or may not just save your life. I really loved Crossed and am looking forward to see how its all going to end in Reached. :D
~Rating:
4 stars!
Thanks for stopping by!
Have a great day!! :)
~Jaiden
"Crossed" teeters from a 3 to 4 star read. It started really good. I love the way Ally Condie writes. It's very poetic, moving and romantic but by the end of the book, I became irritated by the slowness. It was disappointing but let hope she redeems herself in "Reached".
Not enough action and a bit too much poetry. Plus Ky started to get a bit annoying, he was so whiny. I will probably read the 3rd book in the series just to see what happens. Its an ok book, but not amazing. Very average.
This series infuriates me. I gave the first book four stars because Condie created an interesting world that effectively explored her dystopian concept (a world where choice, individuality, creativity, and the unknown/unexpected have been eliminated in the interest of community, harmony, and equality). The protagonist was a good fit for the first book: a sixteen-year-old girl who has not previously questioned her world but who slowly begins to doubt it and who becomes aware of a sort of "underground" resistance.
After the first book, though, the series deteriorated in several ways. First, the story line increasingly fixated on the type of Katniss-Peeta-Gale (or is that Bella-Edward-Jacob?) love triangle that seems to populate so much of today's YA literature. In this case, the naïveté that seems to be the defining characteristic of the heroine makes it unclear why the two male characters find her so irresistible. In addition, the primary characters leave behind the claustrophobic society from book one to embark on some kind of strange desert road trip that drops almost everything in the society that had been so interesting.
Finally, it was difficult to believe that three teenagers--particularly the protagonist--would be the key to taking down the government running this society. This final point is one that I find common to a number of popular YA dystopian series. The first book in the series always seems to work well because you experience an unfamiliar society from the perspective of one teen or a small group of teens embedded in that society. But when later books focus on the rebellion against that society, it becomes unbelievable that these same teens would be the key to this rebellion.
After the first book, though, the series deteriorated in several ways. First, the story line increasingly fixated on the type of Katniss-Peeta-Gale (or is that Bella-Edward-Jacob?) love triangle that seems to populate so much of today's YA literature. In this case, the naïveté that seems to be the defining characteristic of the heroine makes it unclear why the two male characters find her so irresistible. In addition, the primary characters leave behind the claustrophobic society from book one to embark on some kind of strange desert road trip that drops almost everything in the society that had been so interesting.
Finally, it was difficult to believe that three teenagers--particularly the protagonist--would be the key to taking down the government running this society. This final point is one that I find common to a number of popular YA dystopian series. The first book in the series always seems to work well because you experience an unfamiliar society from the perspective of one teen or a small group of teens embedded in that society. But when later books focus on the rebellion against that society, it becomes unbelievable that these same teens would be the key to this rebellion.
I really loved Matched, so I had high hopes for this book. Unfortunately, it wasn't as good as the first one. It seems that this often happens with the second book in triologies. At first the plot moves along quickly, but then it seems to slow down and drag for awhile, and not much gets done. There's several great new characters introduced, and you get to learn a little more about the history of the Society, as well as Ky and Xander's pasts. But overall, it wasn't as strong as Matched. The Society didn't seem to loom as ominously. Still, I'll be reading the final book when it comes out.