Long weekends are for reading, and this 5-day break gave me the opportunity to read Matched by Ally Condie. And this whole Utopia genre is the new hot like the oh-so-2-years-ago vampire genre was.
This book is Uglies meets Hunger Games meets The Giver and now meets Matched.
Same premise...main character goes most of her life OK with the society's choice for her. She goes through the matching ceremony and gets "matched" to her life-long friend. Yay. But then the conflict starts and like any great Utopian society book, the main character starts to think about how things will go if he/she makes some choices on her/his own. And her choices begin with her match.
And that's where the issues start. This book weaves in a really strong love story with twists and turns. I could hardly put it down. Thankfully, a 9-hour drive home helped me out.
Matched will give you 21 Reading Counts points. The sequel, Crossed, just came out. I can hardly wait to check it out. I hear it's coming to the WMS library really soon.
Thanksgiving weekend makes me realize that I'm thankful for good books. Which one are you reading right now that you can't put down?
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