Rose Reviews....Matched

Title: Matched
Author: Ally Condie
Genre: Dystopian/ YA
Published
Rating: A- it was an really interesting world but not much action yet. A promising start to the series

Imagine living in a world where everything was decided for you. What you eat. When you eat it. What your job is. Who you marry and when you die. The officials who run the Dystopian society in Matched leave nothing for choice. The aim to create the optimal life experience for everyone.

Cassia the protagonist of the book matching goes wrong. At the age of sixteen everyone is society is matched to who they will marry but Cassia is matched to two different boys. Her best friend Xander and mysterious guy Ky Markham. She is told it was a mistake and that Xander is her true match but she has already got blossoming  feeling towards Ky.

Cassia also loses her Grandfather in the book because he reaches the optimal age of eighty but he leaves here a forbidden message in the form of a poem. He teaches her that she is strong and doesn't need societies new pills and rules to survive.

Matched has an engaging plot with plenty of twists and turns. The choice between the safety of what you know and forbidden passion runs throughout the story and will no doubt continue through the series.

I would definitely recommend this book to fans of another Dystopian fiction like Divergent or the Hunger Games. Condie really brings a new twist to the Dystopian genre. I think the idea that choice is what makes our society flawed is an interesting one. However the controlled lives that Cassia and her family lead throughout the book is completely restricted by the Officials.

I also really liked the idea of the Artifacts, which are objects that are passed down within families. Each person is allowed one registered artifact. They give the characters a unique belonging with sets hem apart from the rest of society with their standardized possessions.

In Conclusion I will definitely be picking up the next books in this series, Crossed and Reached and will review them as soon as I can :)