They’ve known each other all their lives and he’s handsome and funny and smart and nice. Ugh), but she’s excited too.Īnd then, she ends up being completely shocked when the person she is matched with is one of her closest friends, Xander.

In the Society, everyone who wishes to be married is matched with their future spouse sometime between their seventeenth and eighteenth birthday.Ĭassia is nervous, of course (my personal idea of purgatory, actually, might be seeing the face of the person I was supposed to marry in front of my friends and all my family for the first time. matched by ally condieĬassia is called up for her Match Banquet the day of her seventeenth birthday. So when I received an advance copy of Matched by Ally Condie and the letter that went along with it said it was similar to The Giver, but aimed at young adults and had a romantic story line, well, you know I was sold. It was one of the first dystopian books I’d read, and I fell in love with the genre mainly because of this book. But when I finally did read it, I loved it. I had no idea what to expect from it (I’m sorry, people, but it really does have a ludicrously terrible cover, I’m afraid). I joined The Giver party late – I didn’t read it until I was nineteen. Matched turned out to be even better than I’d expected. 9 of 10: This dystopian novel was just begging me to like it.