AUTHOR: Ally Condie
STARTED: August 26, 2013
FINISHED: September 7, 2013
PAGES: 512
GENRE: Young Adult
FIRST SENTENCE: A man pushed a rock up the hill.
SUMMARY: [From BN] Cassia’s journey began with an
error, a momentary glitch in the otherwise perfect façade of the
Society. After crossing canyons to break free, she waits, silk and paper
smuggled against her skin, ready for the final chapter. The wait is over.
One young woman has raged against
those who threaten to keep away what matters most—family, love, choice.
Her quiet revolution is about to explode into full-scale rebellion.
With exquisite prose, the emotionally gripping conclusion to the
international–bestselling Matched trilogy returns Cassia, Ky, and Xander
to the Society to save the one thing they have been denied for so long,
the power to choose.
THOUGHTS: I was disappointed in how this series ended. The build-up over the first two books was amazing, but then this third volume just fizzled. The whole illness thing that happens felt uncessary to me. In fact, the entirety of Reached felt disconnected from the first two books in the series. The main bit of drama (the plague thing) in the story felt like it was written solely to give the author a reason to write a third book. Dislike.
The one thing I did like about how the series ended was that the politics of it all felt real. One person's uprising is another person's rebellion is another person's business-as-usual.
All in all, the writing and characters were fine, but Reached felt like the wrong conclusion for the series.
RATING: 6/10 [Good]
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