Summary (taken from Matched Series website):
In the Society, Officials decide. Who you love. Where you work. When you die.
Cassia has always trusted their choices. It's hardly any price to pay for a long life, perfect job, the ideal math. So when her best friend appears on the Matching screen, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is the one...until she sees another face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black. Now Cassia is faced with impossible choices: between Xander and Ky, between the only life she's known and a path no one else has ever dared to follow - between perfection and passion.
What I Thought:
I found this book al little hard to get into at first, but I was hooked by the end. I read it because a lot of kids at school were reading this, but I'm not too much of a sci-fy, futuristic reader, so I wasn't expecting much. I really think when Cassia starts to rebel against the Society is where it starts to get interesting. She's matched with her best friend, Xander, but all of a sudden she's not sure the Match is right for her and of course this leads her to doubt all of the Society's choices for her. I enjoyed this idea and the way the author carried the story, but I felt some pieces where left hanging for me. Why did the Society take the artifacts? Why did they cut the trees? What happened with the last "red tablet" incident? And the obvious, does she get to Ky? Hopefully all of these will be answered in the next books in the series!
Rating: 7/10
