Matched Analysis

Cassia lives in a house in Mapletree Borough (at least until the Officials tear down the maple trees and rename it Garden Borough) in the futuristic Oria Province of a Society that exists where the...

Matched is pretty much the Cassia Reyes Story, and everything we see of the world (okay, the Society) is through her eyes. This means we've got front row seats for her progression from thinking Soc...

Matched is a coming-of-age story geared toward those who are about to come of age themselves. It deals with common themes of growing up like first love, friendship, family, and the struggle between...

Throughout the book, Cassia is constantly learning new things, making discoveries, and seeking out new information—even before she starts questioning the Society, she eagerly anticipates finding...

Stream of consciousness is a writing style that allows us to hear a narrator's inner thoughts as they happen—and while this sometimes leads to a frenzied, incoherent reading experience, Cassia is...

Matched is about as straightforward a title as they get. The story begins with Cassia's Matching ceremony, where she's computer-matched via some complicated algorithm with her optimal genetic match...

Cliffhanger much? When we leave Cassia, her parents have sent her on a work detail in a Western Province, purportedly because she was showing "signs of rebellion" (32.4). Reality check: they're hel...

We're not going to beat around the bush: This book is long and it isn't the sort of read you can power through in one sitting (well, unless you have a lot of coffee and can function on no sleep). T...

The Rose Ceremony… Er, Match BanquetCassia's futuristic society is matching its sixteen-year-olds with their ideal mates, and Cassia gets paired up with her best friend Xander—yay. This Match s...

Before Ally Condie started writing about dystopian teenage love triangles, she wrote books about and for LDS youth for a small Mormon publisher, Deseret. (Source.) But long before that, Condie's fi...

Matched is the opposite of steamy. There are a couple of chaste kisses with Xander and one sweet one with Ky, but nothing beyond what would be totally appropriate to do in front of your parents. Pr...

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