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Surprisingly good considering this is totally out of my usual comfort zone. I was intrigued with the whole premise of a new world where everything is determined by statistics and predictions. All the big decisions, of course, are arranged (such as matching for your most perfect mate, what job you have depending on your skills) as well as all the little things (like what your meal and portion size should be, even predicting who will make it to the top of the hill first in hiking "class." There's
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A lot of this book seemed very familiar to me from other dystopian books I've read, but that didn't seem to hamper my enjoyment of it at all. The young protagonist, Cassia, has always believed that everything about "the Society," was perfect, and only a supposed glitch with her "Match" to her future partner makes her begin to wonder about things. What made the book compelling, even if the overall plot-line felt a bit derivative, was watching Cassia try to navigate her complex feelings about Xand
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A future where everything is determined for you. What job you will do, what you eat, how you spend your leisure time, who you will marry, when you will die.
I can't remember the last time that a book depressed me so much.
It was all so vague - "The Society" that runs it all, everyone with their coloured pills, 100 poems, or songs that were chosen - because you can't keep everything (why - what the hell happened - how did they get to that point), it got to a point where I just didn't care what happ ...more
I can't remember the last time that a book depressed me so much.
It was all so vague - "The Society" that runs it all, everyone with their coloured pills, 100 poems, or songs that were chosen - because you can't keep everything (why - what the hell happened - how did they get to that point), it got to a point where I just didn't care what happ ...more
In this YA dystopian novel, Society is very ordered. Officials tell you where to live, who to love, where to work, and when to die. For Cassia who has had her Matching day, she knows to whom she is to be contracted and married. She knows him; it is her friend Xander, but in some sort of glitch, she also is Matched with Ky. This knowledge starts her down a path of questioning everything about her Society. Now she makes choices that may or may not cause trouble for her, her family, Xander, and Ky.
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It was good, I'm excited about the second one coming out, but November seems too far away.
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I liked this book. It reminded me of the book The Uglies kind of. Cassia kind of got on my nerves cause Xander seems like a really good guy. But of course girls always like bad boys and for Cassia that was Ky in a way. The ending was good and I picked up the second book and jumped into that one :)
Had to force myself to finish it
Mar 26, 2012
Amanda
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Dec 06, 2012
Kelly
marked it as to-read-wishlist
