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Reached by Ally Condie
2.5

This was so, so pitifully poetic and metaphorical. To begin with, that was fine, but after 512 pages of Cassia rabbiting on and on and on, I started to lose the will to live. Also, the writing style was simple and boring (Condie NEEDS to work on better similes and metaphors...) and the names were terrible - a hill called 'The Hill'?!!
However, the plot was... Alright, I suppose. In other YA Dystopians (I'm not sure if this qualifies as a dystopian but hey) with an all supreme government, it is the government that causes the threat. However, in Reached, it's a plague. That made it less like a carbon copy of The Hunger Games or Legend like some books are. 
All in all, I wouldn't waste your time reading this series. Seriously. It wasn't terrible but there are MUCH better series' out there.