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The second book in the Matched series is a great read for lots of the same reasons that I liked the first book. It is a series of books written about and for young readers, but which adults can read. The teenage angst is kept to a minimum, there is a plot in addition to who is going to end up together, and the characters are not driven solely by their wants, but by the instinct for survival. Oh and its not supernatural which is a rarity in YA right now. The events in the book could happen, and a
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On the one hand there was too mu h repetition -- almost as if somebody told the author she needed to make it longer. YOu know, it had the padded feel one finds in HS english papers. On the other hand there was some cool (and unique) ideas to be found in the continuation of the story. Not nearly as good as Matched but still worth the time.
As a novel that was planned to hook the first and third novels in a series, I think this one served its purpose well. The setting change, character/narrator changes, and bigger focus on survival were important to jostle us out of our complacency from Matched, much like the characters were, but it also felt harder to get through. The characters did not really travel a lot and there was little real action and mystery to drive the reader through the desert, as it were.
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Meh... not nearly as good as the first one. Slower and even more predictable.
Cassia wants to join the Rising. Ky doesn't for personal reasons. Oh, whatever will they do?
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Why is book two always boring? Hard to read but of course I will read book 3 to find out what happens!
I'm actually really pleased with where this series looks to be going. I did not mind the way it split into two different pov's this time, and I hope that in book three we'll move the obvious three set. I think we learned a lot about a lot of things in this one. Love and knowledge began to war with each other, as well as 'what makes a society' and the dual nature of hard choices that can be both right and wrong.
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Another very well written dystopian YA series. The world has been well thought and created so that it doesn't feel one dimensional at all.
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Dec 30, 2011
Joanna Hennon
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