from fantasticfiction.co.uk:
Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe. So when Xander's face appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is her ideal mate . . . until she sees Ky Markham's face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black.
The Society tells her it's a glitch, a rare malfunction, and that she should focus on the happy life she's destined to lead with Xander. But Cassia can't stop thinking about Ky, and as they slowly fall in love, Cassia begins to doubt the Society's infallibility and is faced with an impossible choice: between Xander and Ky, between the only life she's known and a path that no one else has dared to follow.
Raspberry:
Drawn in by that gorgeous cover and the dystopian plotline, I checked Matched out as soon as I could. However, multiple reviews said it didn't live up to expectations, and although I'm not sure who said it (I believe multiple people?), someone compared it to The Giver with a love triangle. I told my husband that sounded grand to me, and wasted no time giving it a shot.
Matched is an interesting plot which reminded me nothing of The Giver and more of The Sky Inside, by Clare Dunkle. It has an enormous amount of potential except...it's as if the publisher decided to milk it for all it was worth into a trilogy (or whatever plans they have for it). The truth is, it was a lot slower than a dystopian novel should be, or at the very least a lot more was written down for this first part of the plot than needed to be. However, the twists are enjoyable, the ideas unique and I intend on giving Crossed, the next in the trilogy, a try.
Graded a B-.
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