Balise reviewed Matched by Ally Condie (Matched, #1)
Review of 'Matched' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
Picked this one on Kindle store because it looked like easy reading in a dystopian world - sounded like good ingredients :)
First book of said trilogy is the story of Cassia, a 17 year-old girl. And when you're 17 year-old, in the Society, you get Matched (hence the title) to a life partner and you get a "vocation" - matched to a job, say. And everything seems to work quite well within expected parameters. But there's a glitch in Cassia's match - she has a glimpse of another boy than her "official" Match. And, obviously, on top of this, the Society kind of starts to crumble/not work as well as it did...
If you want to categorize it, it's in the "young adult fiction" section - although I'm not exactly sure what this is, I'm not sure my reading habits changed that much between, say, my 15 years old and now :P It's pretty cheesy/soppy at times, but I liked the dystopia depiction (well, I usually like those parts anyway, it always amazes me that people are able to invent/describe a universe that holds at least well enough for me :) ) Anyway, I liked it enough to start the second one after I finished the first one and to continue reading until my phone got out of battery a few minutes before arriving in Zürich :-)