Xander is the proverbial best friend of Cassia but who doesn’t get a whole lot of screen time in my opinion–I think its obvious whose team I was on for this one. Ky always seemed to be paranoid about his relationship with Cassia (especially in the final novel Reached) and I didn’t like that. While this is probably one of the only series where the love triangle is actually necessary to the plot, I would have appreciated better components than Cassia, Ky (who I never liked at all) and Xander (who I actually liked). Nothing about her excited me and because the first two books are told solely from her perspective I just couldn’t get into them.I can’t even say that I hate her: I’m just indifferent. It doesn’t get much duller than her folks. It had everything else they had: a love triangle, tyrannical government, mysterious human history, rebels–but it just uses it all in a lackluster way and does that for the whole series. However, compared to its peers it just didn’t stand up quite on par to them. I read Matched right when it came out–right when Young Adult dystopian novels were just coming into popularity.

I was approximately 25% through when I decided to stop. PLEASE NOTE: That I have not fully read the final novel, Reached. Source & Format: Public Library–Hardcover Publication Dates: November 2010 – November 2012 Point of View: First Person, Single (Matched), Multiple Genre: Young Adult, Dystopian, Science Fiction, Romance # of Books: 3 (Matched, Crossed, Reached) But Cassia can’t stop thinking about Ky, and as they slowly fall in love, Cassia begins to doubt the Society’s infallibility and 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. The Society tells her it’s a glitch, a rare malfunction, and that she should focus on the happy life she’s destined to lead with Xander. So when Xander’s face appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is her ideal mate… until she sees Ky Markham’s face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black. Series Review: Is this series worth your time? Does it get better as the novels progress? Or does it get worse? Find out below:Ĭassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe.

Matched crossed reached series