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.
This is great Ashley. Keep up the good work!
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