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4th out of 2,386 books
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15,607 voters
Reached (Matched #3)
by
Ally Condie (Goodreads Author)
After leaving Society to desperately seek The Rising, and each other, Cassia and Ky have found what they were looking for, but at the cost of losing each other yet again. Cassia is assigned undercover in Central city, Ky outside the borders, an airship pilot with Indie. Xander is a medic, with a secret. All too soon, everything shifts again.
Hardcover, Dutton, 512 pages
Published
November 13th 2012
by Penguin
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Jan 26, 2013
Sam
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NOVEMBER 2012?! That's ages away, I might rot before I get to read this. I can't wait to find out the title and cover <3
Update (October) : I think the cover is going to be red because their going to be the colours of the tablet: Green, blue and red. Just a thought
Just another update (Imagine how many updates they'll be this time next year when the book ACTUALLY comes out?!) (December): High expectations for this book, I demand a good ending....And a nice cover....And a good title................more
Update (October) : I think the cover is going to be red because their going to be the colours of the tablet: Green, blue and red. Just a thought
Just another update (Imagine how many updates they'll be this time next year when the book ACTUALLY comes out?!) (December): High expectations for this book, I demand a good ending....And a nice cover....And a good title................more
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Feb 18, 2013
Melanie
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1 of 5 stars
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romance,
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Revised edition DNF (this is not one of my normal reviews, I cannot provide such detailed review as this book was read ages ago) Additionally, this is not an ARC. I know I read it before y'all but I guess that is because Australia got it earlier.
No one likes party poopers, but I really couldn't do it. But I tried. And that's all I could do.
This series gets worse in each book. Matched was pretty good, I liked the world Ally Condie creat...more
Revised edition DNF (this is not one of my normal reviews, I cannot provide such detailed review as this book was read ages ago) Additionally, this is not an ARC. I know I read it before y'all but I guess that is because Australia got it earlier.
No one likes party poopers, but I really couldn't do it. But I tried. And that's all I could do.
This series gets worse in each book. Matched was pretty good, I liked the world Ally Condie creat...more
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I finally read it! It was not what I expected, but it was awesome nonetheless! I made some predictions that were very wrong... so, obviously, this had some parts in it that made me go, "THAT'S IT????" I expected... well, MORE. A more complicated plot, more complications to the so-called 'love triangle'.
But... no. It was all rather, well, faster-paced, but simple.
That's actually one of the reasons why I enjoyed the Matched trilogy so much... it was not complicated. It didn't have an annoying lov...more
But... no. It was all rather, well, faster-paced, but simple.
That's actually one of the reasons why I enjoyed the Matched trilogy so much... it was not complicated. It didn't have an annoying lov...more
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Team Xander all the way. This book is going to be epic. Loved the first two books can't wait for this one.
P.S. I don't get why everyone loves Ky and thinks he is the dangerous one. I think he is safe. No one who has been through what he has is dangerous. He didn't want to join the rebellion. I don't think him and Cassia want the same thing. She just likes the idea of him and his story.
Pps. The description basically yells, it's all about Ky, the end! :(
Review: I like how it ended and I am ok wi...more
P.S. I don't get why everyone loves Ky and thinks he is the dangerous one. I think he is safe. No one who has been through what he has is dangerous. He didn't want to join the rebellion. I don't think him and Cassia want the same thing. She just likes the idea of him and his story.
Pps. The description basically yells, it's all about Ky, the end! :(
Review: I like how it ended and I am ok wi...more
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My Full Review:
Even though I wasn’t the biggest fan of Matched, I read Crossed, which suffered from Middle Book Syndrome, in my opinion. However, I still held some hope for the final book in this trilogy, and I dislike leaving things unfinished (especially series) so I picked up the last book. While Reached was definitely better than its predecessor, it wasn’t as good as I was hoping it would be.
Reached showcases Ms. Condie’s growth as a writer. I enjoyed the complexity of this book, especially...more
Even though I wasn’t the biggest fan of Matched, I read Crossed, which suffered from Middle Book Syndrome, in my opinion. However, I still held some hope for the final book in this trilogy, and I dislike leaving things unfinished (especially series) so I picked up the last book. While Reached was definitely better than its predecessor, it wasn’t as good as I was hoping it would be.
Reached showcases Ms. Condie’s growth as a writer. I enjoyed the complexity of this book, especially...more
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I'm secretly hoping that the cover will be Cassia standing outside the sphere in the red dress Ky drew her in :) :)
Update: Well, she's not quite OUT of the sphere, but she sure is in a red dress :)
FINISHED REVIEW:
3.5 stars. I'm conflicted. I think Matched is still the best of the trilogy.
I liked the multiple points of view, and found myself especially liking Xander's chapters. I think he was definitely the most interesting character in the book, and I think he's really the only character that ex...more
Update: Well, she's not quite OUT of the sphere, but she sure is in a red dress :)
FINISHED REVIEW:
3.5 stars. I'm conflicted. I think Matched is still the best of the trilogy.
I liked the multiple points of view, and found myself especially liking Xander's chapters. I think he was definitely the most interesting character in the book, and I think he's really the only character that ex...more
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I really, REALLY hope Cassia and Ky get back together, and stay together, AGAIN!! The last book I found just kept dragging on, and on, and the ending pissed me off. Cassia!?! WTF!? What about Ky!!? Anyways, u hope its in both points of view again. And that Xander stays out of Ky and Cassia's shit -__- he's the Gale of this book, leave Katniss and Peeta alone!!
*update*
OH HO HO, there's a cover now, eh? Wow it looks pretty swanky, nice :D
*update*
OH HO HO, there's a cover now, eh? Wow it looks pretty swanky, nice :D
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Well, it's over, isn't it?
I liked it...it didn't jump the shark but it also didn't knock my socks off.
To be fair, I'm going to say to this book, "It's not you...it's me."
We all knew she'd end up with (view spoiler)
Also, (view spoiler)
Like I said,...more
I liked it...it didn't jump the shark but it also didn't knock my socks off.
To be fair, I'm going to say to this book, "It's not you...it's me."
We all knew she'd end up with (view spoiler)
Also, (view spoiler)
Like I said,...more
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I will of course not be adding a stupid star to this. Just saying. You haven't read the book, why on earth must you add all these stars to it. So you liked Matched and Crossed, brilliant! Doesn't mean you should get it five stars. Didn't like Matched or Crossed. Don't give it one just yet.
Anyways, after reading Matched and Crossed, I feel like I have an obligation to read this. Matched was a good book. Bought it after reading it in the library. Crossed however, I did not fancy. Bored me. The end...more
Anyways, after reading Matched and Crossed, I feel like I have an obligation to read this. Matched was a good book. Bought it after reading it in the library. Crossed however, I did not fancy. Bored me. The end...more
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Red cover to match the tablet theme. Liking the idea and looking forward to how the bubble will be portrayed this time.
Update: I like the fact that she is standing, but why not facing forward? Would have preferred it if she was looking at us with her head down. :/ The bubble still looks awesome though.
Update: I like the fact that she is standing, but why not facing forward? Would have preferred it if she was looking at us with her head down. :/ The bubble still looks awesome though.
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If this book was to stray away from the stereotype of Paranormal & Dystopian YA Fiction, she'd choose Xander
Quick Review
Frankly I was a little disappointed with the ending of Reached. I didn't enjoy the whole 'Pilot' plotline,(view spoiler)
I probably set my expectations too...more
Quick Review
Frankly I was a little disappointed with the ending of Reached. I didn't enjoy the whole 'Pilot' plotline,(view spoiler)
I probably set my expectations too...more
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Is everyone Team Ky? I am Team Xander. I can't wait for this book. What about you guys?
EDIT: OMG the cover!
EDIT: OMG the cover!
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This better be good.
You owe me after Crossed.
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After Reading: This was not my favorite series, but I will recommended it to teens who are looking for a dystopia that makes you work for it a bit with literary and art illusions.
It me a while to get into. People kept asking me, "how's it going?" and I'm like, "Well, I'm on page 180 and I can't really tell you..."
I just think it got too far away from Matched, which I liked and thought worked as a dystopian romance....to this book about finding a cur...more
You owe me after Crossed.
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After Reading: This was not my favorite series, but I will recommended it to teens who are looking for a dystopia that makes you work for it a bit with literary and art illusions.
It me a while to get into. People kept asking me, "how's it going?" and I'm like, "Well, I'm on page 180 and I can't really tell you..."
I just think it got too far away from Matched, which I liked and thought worked as a dystopian romance....to this book about finding a cur...more
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Huh. The cover's out. Well, I think it's mighty pretty. I'm looking foward to the conclusion of this trilogy!
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Mar 02, 2012
Giselle
marked it as to-read
I'm a sucker for red covers! <3
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This is it. THE END OF THE MATCHED TRILOGY HAS COME OUT. The wait is over. The book has finally arrived! Reached will literally blow you away!
Intense, mysterious, this has everything I am looking for in the last book in a trilogy!
As I am still reading this, it's pretty hard to talk about this last book in the trilogy. But as soon as I have finished this, you will see the full review out from my lips.
Get ready. Be ready. The book you have been waiting for has arrived and you will soon hear about...more
Intense, mysterious, this has everything I am looking for in the last book in a trilogy!
As I am still reading this, it's pretty hard to talk about this last book in the trilogy. But as soon as I have finished this, you will see the full review out from my lips.
Get ready. Be ready. The book you have been waiting for has arrived and you will soon hear about...more
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Wow.
Where do I even start?
So much happened in this final, much anticipated book in the Matched trilogy! I remember reading Matched and Crossed back to back this summer and although I wasn't blown away by either book, I was so excited to get my hands on the last one to see how it all ended!
I'm not going to lie, when I started Reached I was a bit disappointed. I don't know if it was because I was wary after being let down by the first two books, but I was procrastinating for finals and wanted to...more
Where do I even start?
So much happened in this final, much anticipated book in the Matched trilogy! I remember reading Matched and Crossed back to back this summer and although I wasn't blown away by either book, I was so excited to get my hands on the last one to see how it all ended!
I'm not going to lie, when I started Reached I was a bit disappointed. I don't know if it was because I was wary after being let down by the first two books, but I was procrastinating for finals and wanted to...more
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TEAM. XANDER.
Okay, now that I have THAT out of the way...
3.5 stars (but I'm rounding up because Matched was beautiful)
Better than Crossed but not as good as Matched. Let me say, Ally Condie has some gorgeous writing in this book. There are moments of real brilliance in her prose. However, her writing style is so introspective, so sparse, so poetic that it doesn't fit a story with any kind of action or peril. There is no urgency in these words. The writing worked SO WELL in Matched with its forbi...more
Okay, now that I have THAT out of the way...
3.5 stars (but I'm rounding up because Matched was beautiful)
Better than Crossed but not as good as Matched. Let me say, Ally Condie has some gorgeous writing in this book. There are moments of real brilliance in her prose. However, her writing style is so introspective, so sparse, so poetic that it doesn't fit a story with any kind of action or peril. There is no urgency in these words. The writing worked SO WELL in Matched with its forbi...more
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An excellent ending to an incredible trilogy, REACHED ties everything together in ways you'll never see coming. As with the previous novels, Condie's writing is fluid, unhurried, and poetic with each line, each page. In REACHED, Condie lets readers know and learn more about Xander as a new narrator, in addition to Cassia and Ky's points-of-view. All three narrations are strong and each voice is authentic to each character, making it easy to always know who is narrating at any given point. Life h...more
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Ich habe nicht wirklich Lust auf eine Rezi zu diesem Buch, denn ich finde jeder sollte sich seine eigene Meinung zu dieser Reihe machen.
Einge finden sie langweilig, andere spannend.
Ich zu meinem Teil hatte ein paar Kritikpunkte, doch mit hat es schon Spaß gemacht zu lesen. Ich mag die Charaktere und ich konnte mich mit dem Ende der Tiologie anfreunden.
An manchen Stellen wurde es mir zu rasant, an anderen zu langsam.
Für mich zählt, das ich Spaß hatte und ich möchte nicht darüber diskutieren.
Der e...more
Einge finden sie langweilig, andere spannend.
Ich zu meinem Teil hatte ein paar Kritikpunkte, doch mit hat es schon Spaß gemacht zu lesen. Ich mag die Charaktere und ich konnte mich mit dem Ende der Tiologie anfreunden.
An manchen Stellen wurde es mir zu rasant, an anderen zu langsam.
Für mich zählt, das ich Spaß hatte und ich möchte nicht darüber diskutieren.
Der e...more
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Dec 25, 2012
Anna
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I am excited for this book! can you come any slower November?
Anyway, as many of you are saying, the colors for the cover page are obviously to represent the tablets. And, hello? The bubble is broken. Nothing? OK fine let me explain. So on Matched, she was completely in the bubble right? And on Crossed, she's breaking through, piercing whats keeping her trapped. Well, on Reached.... shes out. If you still haven't gotten my drift, the bubble is the society. *ahem* Shes breaking free from its hold...more
Anyway, as many of you are saying, the colors for the cover page are obviously to represent the tablets. And, hello? The bubble is broken. Nothing? OK fine let me explain. So on Matched, she was completely in the bubble right? And on Crossed, she's breaking through, piercing whats keeping her trapped. Well, on Reached.... shes out. If you still haven't gotten my drift, the bubble is the society. *ahem* Shes breaking free from its hold...more
This one is off to a strong start, albeit one with multiple narrators. I think this is my favorite dystopian series, after The Hunger Games...
...It took me two nights of hard reading, but I just finished it. Unlike many dystopian trilogies, this one seems to follow the story all the way through to an actual finish. At least one of the three main trio of characters shows definite growth in this book (the one we see least in the previous two), and while the romantic angle didn't end the way I want...more
...It took me two nights of hard reading, but I just finished it. Unlike many dystopian trilogies, this one seems to follow the story all the way through to an actual finish. At least one of the three main trio of characters shows definite growth in this book (the one we see least in the previous two), and while the romantic angle didn't end the way I want...more
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Dec 17, 2012
Jackie
is currently reading it
I really really really hope Cassia chooses Xander!
I loved the last two, but I hate that this series is always compared to the Hunger games, dont get me wrong, i love the hunger games, but this is a different book. Different story.
I have a small hunch that maybe Condie will make this different than the whole katniss peeta gale thing.
Instead of Cassia picking ky, which is like katniss picking peeta...
Cassia would pick Xander! Which would be like the whole best friend thing between katniss and gale...more
I loved the last two, but I hate that this series is always compared to the Hunger games, dont get me wrong, i love the hunger games, but this is a different book. Different story.
I have a small hunch that maybe Condie will make this different than the whole katniss peeta gale thing.
Instead of Cassia picking ky, which is like katniss picking peeta...
Cassia would pick Xander! Which would be like the whole best friend thing between katniss and gale...more
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In a word, dull. Dull and boring. **MINOR SPOILERS** What should have been a bigger event in this book - the Rising fighting the Society - ended up being nothing. At first I honestly thought that maybe my book was missing several chapters - you know, the chapters where something actually happens - but it turns out that the Rising taking over the Society was just that - nothing. There's no action, no suspense, no anything. By the end of the book, I didn't care about Ky, Xander, or Cassia, althoug...more
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CAN'T WAIT FOR THIS BOOK TO COME OUT!!!
COME ON NOVEMBER 2012, GET HERE ALL READY!!!
GRRRRRRR......
COME ON NOVEMBER 2012, GET HERE ALL READY!!!
GRRRRRRR......
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It's out!!!! I really like it! The only thing that I think looks wrong is the person looks to realistic, the others looked more cartoon like but everything else is great. Took awhile though...haha
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I have a love-hate relationship with this book.
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Was it wrong for me to actually hope that there would be some sort of improvement in the last book of the Matched trilogy?
Maybe. Maybe not.
Reached, for me, was every bit of what I did NOT want a final book to be.
Here are four things I did not like about it, in honor of the four blank spaces in my rating.
#1: THE FLIMSY LOVE TRIANGLE
Don't get me wrong, but I dolove ADORE well-written love triangles. You know, ones that handle the three involved with reverence, ones that leave them with dignity i...more
Maybe. Maybe not.
Reached, for me, was every bit of what I did NOT want a final book to be.
Here are four things I did not like about it, in honor of the four blank spaces in my rating.
#1: THE FLIMSY LOVE TRIANGLE
Don't get me wrong, but I do
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I really, really liked the book. I was really impressed with the way the author tied everything together in the end and although things weren't "settled" with the Rising and bringing down of the Society it was a well put together last book! I was nervous about reading this book since I wasn't super excited about the second book but it was just the fluff for the grand finale. At times I thought it went a little slow but that's because the author did a great job with the details and in the end the...more
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| Indie | 1 | 3 | 57 minutes ago | |
| I gave Matched 4 stars and Crossed, 1 | 12 | 18 | 13 hours, 52 min ago | |
| Ky? or Xander? | 102 | 404 | Jun 16, 2013 10:14pm | |
| ♥Calling All Fang...: Reached | 21 | 48 | Jun 15, 2013 11:59am | |
| Addicted to YA: Reached | 17 | 296 | Jun 10, 2013 06:32pm | |
| Read-along: Reached | 45 | 21 | Jun 07, 2013 05:58am | |
| Matched trilogy: what did you think about Reached? (spoilers!) | 22 | 226 | May 29, 2013 03:30pm |
Ally Condie is a former high school English teacher who lives with her husband, three sons and one daughter outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. She loves reading, running, eating, and listening to her husband play guitar.
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