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3.35 AVERAGE
3.35 AVERAGE
3.5 ⭐️’s
This is quite a good dystopian book that explores the topic of individuality vs conformity in much detail. The concept of the book was interesting
It does take a while or get through as it gets quite slow in places but otherwise is entertaining.
Noted:
- audiobook version used through cloudLibrary
- narrator was very good and entertaining
7/11/21-15/12/21
This is quite a good dystopian book that explores the topic of individuality vs conformity in much detail. The concept of the book was interesting
It does take a while or get through as it gets quite slow in places but otherwise is entertaining.
Noted:
- audiobook version used through cloudLibrary
- narrator was very good and entertaining
7/11/21-15/12/21
adventurous
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
fast-paced
It honestly took me a while to finish reading this. But as someone just getting back into reading again it wasn’t a bad book at all. I see a lot of reviews giving poor ratings but I’d say the opposite of the book. I think it was very interesting to see how this story played out. Yes, it deed indeed take a while for me to read but after the first hundred pages I couldn’t put the book down! I had to know what would happen between Cassia and Ky, and how things would play out with Cassia and Xander.
Things did take a while to get to the actual point, and I’m not sure if this is an ongoing thing with me personally but, there were some facts in the book that I kind of knew from the beginning/first reading it, meanwhile it took the main character Cassia a couple chapters to understand.
Overall I recommend this book to you all, after I finished I immediately ordered the next book in the series and I’m excited to read what happens. :)
Things did take a while to get to the actual point, and I’m not sure if this is an ongoing thing with me personally but, there were some facts in the book that I kind of knew from the beginning/first reading it, meanwhile it took the main character Cassia a couple chapters to understand.
Overall I recommend this book to you all, after I finished I immediately ordered the next book in the series and I’m excited to read what happens. :)
This book reminded me how much I love teenage dystopian novels. Can not wait to jump into the next one. Dystopian themed books always make me think, where I would stand on the divide of some of their ideas.
adventurous
challenging
emotional
hopeful
reflective
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
my expectations weren't even that high, and yet i was disappointed.
it was fine overall. but, i found the characters to be bland and lacking in personality, which made it hard to root for them. the plot was barely enough to keep my attention.
there are some intriguing things about the world, but i wouldn't say it's that well developed.
it was fine overall. but, i found the characters to be bland and lacking in personality, which made it hard to root for them. the plot was barely enough to keep my attention.
there are some intriguing things about the world, but i wouldn't say it's that well developed.
I read this book back in 2017 and I didn’t remember much other than that I loved it and never read the other two. Reading it again, it really just wasn’t as good. I’ll probably still read the other 2 though.
So I loved this book. But there were parts that were extremely slow. It was well written and reminds me of Delirium a lot. The characters are deep and changing and I especially like Ky and Xander.
The plot is placed in a setting where a society chooses everything for you. The people make no choices of their own. Cassia the main character goes to her Match Banquet, where she will be matched with her future husband. This is when everything changes for her. She gets Mtched with her best friend Xander. Only later when she puts in his information, a mistake has been made and a different boys face shows up. Only she knows that one too. His name is Ky and he is an Abberation and so can never be Matched. This is when Cassia gets curious about Ky and everything changes. To keep their love they will have to rebel against their government and risk everything they care about. This story was well written but slow in parts. It was interesting and I love the premise for the dystopian world. It was interesting and I had fun with it. Can't wait to read the next one.
I loved the characters. This book was a character based book. Cassia was interesting, intelligent, intriguing, and changed during the books in ways that were believable. Ky was mysterious, aloof, brooding, extremely intelligent, and a rebel who blended in to normal society like a predator biding his time. He was very well rendered and I loved his character which was so well thought out. Xander was the intelligent best friend, who kind of gets the short end of the stick in this whole thing. He was funny and warm and friendly, but he didn't fight hard enough for what he wanted and lost out in the end.
I recommend this book for those who loved Delirium.
The plot is placed in a setting where a society chooses everything for you. The people make no choices of their own. Cassia the main character goes to her Match Banquet, where she will be matched with her future husband. This is when everything changes for her. She gets Mtched with her best friend Xander. Only later when she puts in his information, a mistake has been made and a different boys face shows up. Only she knows that one too. His name is Ky and he is an Abberation and so can never be Matched. This is when Cassia gets curious about Ky and everything changes. To keep their love they will have to rebel against their government and risk everything they care about. This story was well written but slow in parts. It was interesting and I love the premise for the dystopian world. It was interesting and I had fun with it. Can't wait to read the next one.
I loved the characters. This book was a character based book. Cassia was interesting, intelligent, intriguing, and changed during the books in ways that were believable. Ky was mysterious, aloof, brooding, extremely intelligent, and a rebel who blended in to normal society like a predator biding his time. He was very well rendered and I loved his character which was so well thought out. Xander was the intelligent best friend, who kind of gets the short end of the stick in this whole thing. He was funny and warm and friendly, but he didn't fight hard enough for what he wanted and lost out in the end.
I recommend this book for those who loved Delirium.
3.5 stars. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I wish I had started it when I had more time to read because I ended up taking over 2 weeks to read it. This book wasn't like the other Dystopian novels I've read and I liked that. No rebellion has happened quite yet, that's always my favorite part of a dystopian but none the less it kept my attention at all times. The book never dragged or bored me and that's fantastic since I was also reading a really long boring book at the same time. I hoped right into "Crossed" as I'm impatient to find out what happens next. I really feel that Ally fit everything together perfectly in this first book. I would definately recommend it.
I would like to give MATCHED the sort of review I normally give books, from the perspective of an avid reader who is also an editor who dissects everything, but I can't view this book with impartiality, or even just through a normal reader's eyes, because from the first page, it threw me back into my childhood as a Mormon.
Everything about the society in this book is familiar in an unpleasant way, from the opinion all the members share that living in their society is more right and more moral than living in another society would be, to the empty tedium of their daily lives that so perfectly reflects the empty tedium I felt as a teenager, watching only the movies they approved of, listening to only the music they approved of, reading only the books they approved of, looking at only the art they approved of – the sum total of which was probably less than 1% of everything mankind has envisioned through the creative arts over the centuries. Anything and everything that might incite independent thought, encourage one to rebel or explore the universe or one's own body, might lead to understanding and even approving of people deemed unsuitable by Mormon leaders, was purged from my life, just as it was purged from the world that the protagonist of MATCHED lived in. The author is LDS, but beyond that, I don't know anything about her, so I can't say if these similarities were intentional, accidental, or otherwise.
It was weird to see the Mormon world so bleached of its usual endless religious rhetoric, and yet retaining all of its preachiness, sense of superiority, still populated with submissive members who blindly do what they're told to do because they're told it will make them happy, as well as members who convince themselves they are happy when they are not. There is no Outer Darkness for them to fear in this faith-stripped version of LDS culture, and yet the characters are stalked by fear all the same, just a nameless one they can't quite put a finger on. The system is not quite right and they will not allow themselves to see what is not quite right about it. They don't want to face the fact that their perfect reality may, in the end, be nothing but a lie.
I cannot begin to tell you how familiar that feels to me.
One thing I can say about the book from a reader's perspective is that the ending fizzles out. What tension is there vanishes during a conversation the young protagonist has with a woman who has supposedly been stalking her on behalf of the society, trying to prevent the girl from causing trouble and upsetting their system. Instead of bringing the tension of this scenario to a head, the woman basically sticks a pin in a balloon and deflates everything. That's the best I can do to describe it without getting into spoilers.
After the deflation scene, the book peters out to a slow end, a kind of vague cliffhanger-that-isn't-really that indicates this book is the first in a trilogy. Having had to endure the misery of LDS culture for the first twenty-one years of my life, I have little interest in suffering through it for two more books, but I wish the author and the sequels luck, since many of my friends liked it, and didn't see it through the filmy glasses of childhood that I did.
Everything about the society in this book is familiar in an unpleasant way, from the opinion all the members share that living in their society is more right and more moral than living in another society would be, to the empty tedium of their daily lives that so perfectly reflects the empty tedium I felt as a teenager, watching only the movies they approved of, listening to only the music they approved of, reading only the books they approved of, looking at only the art they approved of – the sum total of which was probably less than 1% of everything mankind has envisioned through the creative arts over the centuries. Anything and everything that might incite independent thought, encourage one to rebel or explore the universe or one's own body, might lead to understanding and even approving of people deemed unsuitable by Mormon leaders, was purged from my life, just as it was purged from the world that the protagonist of MATCHED lived in. The author is LDS, but beyond that, I don't know anything about her, so I can't say if these similarities were intentional, accidental, or otherwise.
It was weird to see the Mormon world so bleached of its usual endless religious rhetoric, and yet retaining all of its preachiness, sense of superiority, still populated with submissive members who blindly do what they're told to do because they're told it will make them happy, as well as members who convince themselves they are happy when they are not. There is no Outer Darkness for them to fear in this faith-stripped version of LDS culture, and yet the characters are stalked by fear all the same, just a nameless one they can't quite put a finger on. The system is not quite right and they will not allow themselves to see what is not quite right about it. They don't want to face the fact that their perfect reality may, in the end, be nothing but a lie.
I cannot begin to tell you how familiar that feels to me.
One thing I can say about the book from a reader's perspective is that the ending fizzles out. What tension is there vanishes during a conversation the young protagonist has with a woman who has supposedly been stalking her on behalf of the society, trying to prevent the girl from causing trouble and upsetting their system. Instead of bringing the tension of this scenario to a head, the woman basically sticks a pin in a balloon and deflates everything. That's the best I can do to describe it without getting into spoilers.
After the deflation scene, the book peters out to a slow end, a kind of vague cliffhanger-that-isn't-really that indicates this book is the first in a trilogy. Having had to endure the misery of LDS culture for the first twenty-one years of my life, I have little interest in suffering through it for two more books, but I wish the author and the sequels luck, since many of my friends liked it, and didn't see it through the filmy glasses of childhood that I did.