Journal Entry 1 by yourotherleft from Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania USA on Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Synopsis:

In the Society, Officials decide. Who you love. Where you work. When you die.

Cassia has always trusted their choices. It’s hardly any price to pay for a long life, the perfect job, the ideal mate. So when her best friend appears on the Matching screen, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is the one… until she sees another face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black. Now Cassia is faced with impossible choices: between Xander and Ky, between the only life she’s known and a path no one else has ever dared follow — between perfection and passion.
 

Journal Entry 2 by yourotherleft at Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania USA on Friday, June 24, 2011

Matched is a fascinating look at a world gone so right that it's wrong. The thought of a world where one makes no decisions, and there is no unpredictability is as interesting as it is frightening. Watching what turns out to be the most fragile of strands that bind this world together come unraveled through Cassia's eyes as she begins to consider that a different life, a life more like the lives we know now, might be possible, make Matched an exhilarating page-turner of a book. Cassia herself, is a strong narrator, a girl testing the limits of her independence in a world where her every move is controlled by a higher authority, whether she realizes it or not. The relationship that develops between Cassia and the mysterious Ky is powerful in its chemistry, a force that people in the Society have little experience with, and in its questioning of the values that the Society holds dear.

Matched is an utterly compelling look at a world that might be far away from our reality but at the same time could be oh-so-close. Cassia's will to break free from the constraints of the Society she always believed kept her safe is at the heart of what, I'm confident, is going to be an incredible series.  

Journal Entry 3 by yourotherleft at Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania USA on Friday, June 24, 2011

Released 11 mos ago (6/23/2011 UTC) at Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania USA

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Sent to Appa for the Teen VBB. Enjoy! 

Journal Entry 4 by appaloosatb at Rochester, Minnesota USA on Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Arrived safely today. Thank you! 

Journal Entry 5 by appaloosatb at Rochester, Minnesota USA on Monday, October 17, 2011

This was a powerful dystopian novel. Loved it!