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Matched

Book 1 of Matched Trilogy

  • 369 pages · about 6 hours
  • First published 2010
  • 29 editions

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1 About this book

Cassia has always followed the autocratic Society without question. So when Xander's face is displayed on the screen at the Matching ceremony, she knows that they are the perfect mates. However, Ky Markham's face also flashed on the screen, if only briefly.

Although the Society claims it was a glitch and Cassia knows she is to be with Xander, she cannot stop thinking about Ky. In the Society, Officials decide. Who you love. Where you work. When you die.

Cassia has always trusted their choices, but she begins to question just how perfect her world really is when she notices things are not what they seem. As Cassia begins to doubt the Society’s infallibility, she 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.

Good for readers who want: fantasy and dystopian fiction.

  • Fantasy
  • Personal growth
  • Marriage
  • Dystopian fiction
  • Adventure
  • Mate selection
  • Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
  • Resistance to Government

2 About Ally Condie

Born 1978

Allyson Braithwaite Condie (born November 2, 1978) is an author of young adult and middle grade fiction. Her novel Matched was a #1 New York Times and international bestseller, and spent over a year on the New York Times Bestseller List. The sequels (Crossed and Reached) are also New York Times bestsellers. Matched was chosen as one of YALSA's 2011 Teens' Top Ten and named as one of Publishers Weekly's Best Children's Books of 2010.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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