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Oct 24, 2014
★ K ★ [In a slump but still here!]
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There were so many times when I wanted to give up on this because I was so bored. I enjoyed 'Matched', but the excitement I had built up for the sequels drained slowly as I plodded through 'Crossed', chapter by chapter, and by the time I got to 'Reached' I dreaded continuing.
My main gripe is that Condie needs to show, not just tell. We were told, rather vaguely, about the fall of the Society and how it affected everyone other than our core three characters, but it's all just second-hand informat ...more
My main gripe is that Condie needs to show, not just tell. We were told, rather vaguely, about the fall of the Society and how it affected everyone other than our core three characters, but it's all just second-hand informat ...more

There are not many third/end-in-a-series that live up to their fabulous beginning, but I think Reached rates up there. With the introductions of all three voices as narrators - Cassia, Ky, and Xander - we get a much fuller understanding of some of the machinations that moved the story in the first two installments while also putting a nice conclusion on the story in this one. There is love, sadness, death, regret, revolution, secrecy, illness, poetry, and so much more. I was not disappointed b
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I'm beginning to think all of these YA series could be summed up in one book. This book dragged on and on and I couldn't wait for it to be over. Perhaps I just need a break from the young adult trilogy world. Each one starts out great and then by book 3 or 4 I've completely lost interest.
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Margi Borck
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