If you loved Hunger Games and Divergent, the Matched Trilogy by Ally Condie will be right up your alley! I finished the series early this spring and was sad to see it end.
The website says: In the society before ours, everyone had technology, too much of it, and the consequences were disastrous. Now, we have the basic technology we need – ports, readers, scribes – and our information intake is much more specific. In the Society, Officials decide. Who you love. Where you work. When you die. Cassia has always trusted their choices. It’s hardly any price to pay for a long life, the perfect job, the ideal mate. So when her best friend appears on the Matching screen, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is the one… until she sees another face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black. Now Cassia is faced with impossible choices: between Xander and Ky, between the only life she’s known and a path no one else has ever dared follow — between perfection and passion.
These are easy and engaging reads, and the type of books that make you ask yourself “How did they get here?” and “Are we really too far away from this ourselves?” I adored the entire trilogy, but found the ending of Reached a tad disappointing. I was hoping to learn more about what was outside the Society, as I had speculated about it through all three books. I suppose I’m hard to please when it comes to wrapping up a really good book :-)
What’s on your bedside?
xoxo
This is perfect timing I just finished my the book I was reading and was not sure what to read next. I have read a couple of the books you have mentioned and now I can't wait to go read these. Thank you!
The Violets of March by Sarah Jio. Just finished The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh and really enjoyed it.
I am almost finished with Rules of Civility (per your recommendation)!
I just finished all of my books from our last trip to the library so this post is just perfect! Thank you!!!
I have three things to read, Dan Brown's Inferno, a National Geographic 100 prettiest places, and Sunday's paper. If the paper isn't read tonight, it will get tossed. Two days late is really old news!
Sounds a lot like The Handmaid's Tale. Very scary.