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A love story set in a futuristic dystopia (with the trappings of a utopia)? Count me in!
Cassia is off to her Matching Banquet since she is 17 and it is time to learn who the Society has statistically calculated will be her perfect Match - her mate for life. She is allowed to wear a special dress instead of the usual uniforms - she picks a green one, and is told it was predicted she would pick green - and that night, there is special food instead of the usual food specially formulated for nutrien ...more
Cassia is off to her Matching Banquet since she is 17 and it is time to learn who the Society has statistically calculated will be her perfect Match - her mate for life. She is allowed to wear a special dress instead of the usual uniforms - she picks a green one, and is told it was predicted she would pick green - and that night, there is special food instead of the usual food specially formulated for nutrien ...more
This moved a bit too slowly for me and was too sterile, it didn't show me enough of why I should dislike the society. But, it had all the elements of a dystopian novel and I am sure teen readers would like it.
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I enjoyed the dystopian setting.
I could have done without the love triangle, teen romance, thing.
That said, I would like to know how the rest of the story turns out.
I could have done without the love triangle, teen romance, thing.
That said, I would like to know how the rest of the story turns out.
One of the hottest YA books this season, I like it well enough, but did not find it as compelling as say: The Hunger Games or The Giver.
Dystopian world in the future. A Society has taken over as government and regulates people and what they can do--making everyone dependent on each other and on the government and following blindly (no questioning allowed). The story reminded me of a blend of the movies Equilibrium and Timer and the book THE UGLIES.
I really wanted to like this more than I did. No. What I *really* wanted was for this story to go in a certain direction, but I think it's just setting things up for that. I was a lit ...more
I really wanted to like this more than I did. No. What I *really* wanted was for this story to go in a certain direction, but I think it's just setting things up for that. I was a lit ...more
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It was good in parts, okay in others, but was overall predictable. 2.5 but I'll bump to 3.
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