Crossed by Ally Condie (Still Awesome)

Hey!  I decided that I will try to post every Friday.  (It's the only day that I have time.)  I thought that I would let you know that.
Anyway, I read the sequel to Matched and found that it was as good as the first book.  Here's the cover:

The cover is a lot like the first book's.  I think that it's an altogether very artsy and basically, awesome, cover.  She's inside the sphere in the first one, she's breaking out in the second, and I would guess that she is either completely out or standing in its ruins in the third.  (It's not out yet.)

The book was very good.  It was a little less love triangle- like and a little more action filled than the first book.

I really do not want to spoil anything for the people who have not read Matched yet...  So, if you have not: STOP READING NOW!!!  Okay, have all of you read it?   It's your own fault if you didn't, so now that I feel better, here is my descriptions.  There's no spoilers if you haven't read Crossed yet.

Cassia and Ky alternate narrating this adventure.  Cassia journeys to find Ky in the Outer Providences.  There they are fired upon every night by some of these "bad guys".  There are some new characters that come along that you can quickly fall in love with.  They travel long and hard across a very entrancing world.  They find out what the Society has been keeping from everyone, find out more of Ky's story, find a hidden community, and as they try to find something...  Even if some of the party would rather it not be found.

Read it to find out where Cassia, Ky, and Xander stand in their relationships and who will ever see the other ones again.

If you have not read it, it is a must read for anyone who likes dramatic love/action books.  It is not my usual kind of series, but it's nice to shake it up a bit.  

I am currently reading Antsy Does Time (which is the sequel of The Schwa was Here).  I will post as soon as a get a chance.  

Until then, Happy Reading!

Matched by Ally Condie (Awesome)

Hey!  Sorry it took me so long to post, especially since I finished this book on Tuesday...
This isn't one of my normal kinds of books, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.
My best simplified description is Twilight meets Hunger Games meets The Giver.  
Here's the cover:

Okay, this is a really good book.  I heard an interview-like thing with the author and thought she sounded like she would write a good book.  I was right.  This is one of those weird books that I don't quite know why I like, but that I can't stop reading.  I just want to point out that this is definitively a girl's book, because it is mostly a love book.
My description is this:  A girl named Cassia lives in a Utopia setting run by the Society.  The world, run by the Society, is doing fine because of a system called Matching.  They sort people to find their best partner.  The Matchees see that person for the first time on a screen during a ceremony.  Cassia sees two people flash on her screen.  She starts to love them both.  All three of them are in the middle of a complicate love triangle.  You'll have to read it to find out what will happen next.
I would go farther in describing it, but I don't want to give anything else away.  The pace gets really quick by the middle though, trust me, there's even a mild action scene.  I will say reveal, however, that there are like two poems involved.  (That probably means more than you might suspect right now.)
To explain my earlier description: this is like Twilight and The Hunger Games in terms of the love triangle and like The Giver in the sense of the not perfect Utopia setting.
This is a really popular book and everyone I know who's reading it is completely immersed.  I thought that since I started it late, I wouldn't finish it for a while, but I finished it in like 3 days (despite the length).  This book is one of those you-can't-put-it-down-no-matter-what books. 
Again, I wanted to remind you that this is about as much of a guy book as Twilight is.  I would recommend this to almost anyone (again with this being a girly book).
Tell me what you thought about it.  I really hope you enjoy it.