As for Matched! OMG! I was reading this (at my husbands recommendation--thanks hubby) and I looked at him and told him "If The Hunger Games and The Giver had a book baby, this would be it!" It is just so good. It's about a society (distopian society that is). Pretty much all the choices have been taken away. The government decides when you'll get married and to who. They send you special food based on your body, everyone wears the same thing depending on where they live, and everyone follows all of the rules.
The book starts out with main character, Cassia, getting ready to go to a banquet. This banquet is going to tell her who she is matched (pretty much engaged) to. She's incredibly nervous because she will most likely be assigned to someone in another city, whom she has never met. When it's her turn her match is revealed to be her best friend, Xander. After the banquet she watches the microchip given to her with information about her match--and a picture appears briefly of someone who isn't her match. As time progresses, she starts to think more and more about the mistake of someone else appearing...and starts to grow closer and closer to someone who is not her match.
Seriously...this book is awesome. And a warning: it's part of a trilogy. And this is the first one...the next one comes out in the fall. BOOOOOO! But it gives me something to look forward to. I'm hoping to get this one for the library soon.
I wrote this post yesterday. Remember when I told you I hate writing? I was rereading what I had written and my review just doesn't do this book justice. So I think I'm going to do a video review of it. So I'm putting my nerdiness out there...but I think it will get everyone WAY more excited about it.
This sounds like a really good book! Do you have it in the library? When i get done with the series: Uglies, Pretties, Extras, and Specials. This series is perfect for me...it might be a little bit of a hard read but i am only into the second book like 10 pages and i already love it! Thanks Mrs. Calhoun! Your an awesome librian!
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