Book Review, Matched by Ally Condie
My husband is part of a business called Gaslight Software and all the wives decided we would start a book club. For our first book we landed on Matched by Allie Condie.
Amazon’s description:
Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe. So when Xander’s face appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is her ideal mate … until she sees Ky Markham’s face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black.
The Society tells her it’s a glitch, a rare malfunction, and that she should focus on the happy life she’s destined to lead with Xander. But Cassia can’t stop thinking about Ky, and as they slowly fall in love, Cassia begins to doubt the Society’s infallibility and is faced with an impossible choice: between Xander and Ky, between the only life she’s known and a path that no one else has dared to follow.
My Review:
This book had a lot of aspects of the book the Giver by Lois Lowry. I had some trouble getting into this book. It seemed like it was a story about a lot of nothing when I began. I think this may have been because I didn’t connect with a lot of the characters. However if you give the book some time it does to get to “the good part”.
The Ky vs Xander choice seemed a little typical. You know the entire this guy won’t hurt me and will take care of me versus this guy is a bad boy and every girl loves a mysterious bad boy. I am trying not include any spoilers but how her interest in Ky started didn’t thrill me.
If you’re looking for action, I didn’t find much. What I did like were the parts where Cassia was basically waking up and realizing this society and its rules were something she did not agree with or want to be a part of. Again to avoid spoiler alerts there was a choice Cassia made later in the book that caused some unexpected consequences for Ky and I thought it was a really great turn in the book that makes me look forward to book 2.
So as far as the Gaslight wives, they all seemed very pleased with the selection and though I was not as impressed I still would give this at least three stars. It was definitely enough for me to see what is going to happen in the next book, Crossed.
