Overall, I didn't really enjoy reading Matched and I wouldn't recommend it to others. I had a very hard time getting through this novel because it was slow and there was almost no plot. The characters in the novel weren't very developed and the majority of the characters had no personality. The relationships between the characters are never developed either. For example, we're just told that Cassia and Xander are best friends without any evidence or development of their friendship or their feelings. If the characters had been more developed, I think the novel would have been less dull and the characters would have been more relatable.
I also think that the Society wasn't explained very well. Why is the Society there? How did it come to be? Why the current precautions? Why are there people that live in the Society and others that don't? There were a lot of questions I had about the Society that were never explained. The author spent pages writing about dull and boring topics instead of developing the plot and the Society. For example, there was a whole page about soil and there were also chapters about Cassia's time spent hiking with Ky which were boring and usually not that important. In conclusion, I wouldn't recommend the novel Matched to others because it was dull, slow and the characters weren't developed.
Matched by Allyson Braithwaite Condie
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I completely agree. Xander and Cassia's friendship was said to be so strong but nothing really supported that. The conversations between the two were never really more than a normal day-to-day conversation, and never expressed anything like the way either of them felt about their match or society itself. Towards the end of the novel, Cassia showed more interesting thoughts about society. We, as readers, could see that she began to disagree with the concepts of society. I wish she would have shared some of these thoughts with Xander. This would have proved that their relationship really was what it was said to be. Also, Cassia states multiple times throughout the novel that she and Xander tell each other everything. Yet, she did not tell him until the end of the novel about her feelings for Ky. If Cassia let Xander know about her feelings earlier in the novel it would have said a lot more about their relationship and perhaps, even made Cassia's decision between Xander and Ky more difficult.
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