Book 3 in Matched series
Matched - Book 1
Crossed - Book 2
We pick up the storyline with Cassie as a government sorter (i.e. data analyst) extraordinaire, Ky a resistance pilot and Xander an Official Medic in a small border town. A plague hits the population and the resistance is able to manufacture and distribute a cure. This is the start of overthrowing the system and all three are working to help and find their own way (and find each other). There is not a lot of certainty (remember these are teenagers) and some half-hearted attempt to push thinking about the role of society and government. Condie is trying to make this relevant, to push the reader into making connections with current society and government. But everything is either too obvious or not interesting. It is an OK story, and taking the trilogy as a whole, everything is put together in a nice, tidy package. But aside from the basic premise of government controlled, computer matched marriages, in six months this will be entirely forgotten.
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