Can you
imagine living in a place, where the government controls every single aspect of
your life?
They control where you live, what do you do, what and when you eat and even
who you will spend your life with.
Welcome to the Society!
I’ve
recently read the Mached trilogy by Ally Condie, which I loved and decided to
share my opinions with you. The series is a mixture of young
adult/romance/dystopian genre with a thrilling story that kept me from doing
anything else but reading it (seriously, I’ve finished the first two books in a
same day).
First, let
me get into what it is all about:
Matched –book
1:
Everything
is happening in a futuristic, dystopian society where the citizens are very
strictly controlled and organized by the government. The citizens are “matched”
at the age of 17, which basically means being paired with the best possible
match, by the authorities. Cassia, the main protagonist, gets matched with her
best friend Xander, which happens very seldom, but they are both very excited
about it. Later at home, she wants to
look at the information about Xander that she was given on her micro card, instead
of him; she sees a picture of her childhood friend Ky. At the beginning she
hopes, that she is still matched to Xander, but then starts slowly falling in
love with Ky. Throughout the book, Cassia faces a lot of hard decisions and finds
out some facts about the government and the Society that will change her life
forever.
Crossed –book
2:
Cassia
wants to take control of her life and make her own decisions about her future
so she joutneys to the Outer Provinces to find Ky, who was taken away by the Society.
Whilst doing so, she is faced with another way of life, outside of the Society’s
strict rules and has to make another life changing decision that might help to
change and destroy the Society forever.
Reached –book
3:
Soon after
they find each other, Cassia and Ky are separated again as they join the rebellion.
Everything changes when the veil of a dystopian Society is lifted. Cassia
discovers creativity but besides that, she still has to find Ky and her family
whilst battling a threat that endangers the whole population.
This book
took a few chapters for me to fall for it, but when I did, I fell hard. I love
how the story is well thought of, how different but at the same time similar it
is to our on society. I liked how the story emphasized the importance of the
thing we take for granted (like creativity, literature, art, history,…). After
Hunger Games, there were not many dystopian books that would really impress me,
but this one was quite amazing and made me dig deeper into the treasures of
dystopian literature (so you can expect more reviews from the genre!).
I would recommend
it to everyone who liked the Hunger Games and similar books, to all the
adventurous people who like to challenge their minds with thoughts of how the
future societies might look like.
(Let me
just add at the end, that I never look at the reviews of the book I am writing
about before I write my own, because I don’t want other opinions to change the
way I feel about the book. So I wrote this one and then checked out some
reviews online and I was really shocked by how many bad reviews are out there.
Made me wander a little bit, whether my taste is so different, but then I
decided that I don’t care about what other thought of the book. Therefore I
wanted to just make a quick statement: In my Lost in books series, you will
find my own opinions on the books, my thoughts and my feeling because I see no
point in writing a review if it isn’t honest. )
Have you
read the book? If you did, how did you feel about it, I would like to read your
opinions? Also, do you have any recommendations on what I should read next?
Thanks for
reading guys and I hope you enjoyed it!
Rawr,
your Beautysaur
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