Book description
Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe. So when Xander's face appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is her ideal mate . . . until she sees Ky…
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2 authors picked Matched as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
In this society where people are matched with their jobs, but also with their future mates, arts and culture are carefully selected and limited by leadership. People take mandatory medications.
The most horrifying part, for me, is that they can no longer write without a keypad. Whatever they write on a computer is censured. Can you imagine better ways to control the population? Does it sound familiar?
From Marie-Hélène's list on YA SFF about utopian societies.
They created a perfect society. A society where no lives are lost to senseless violence. No one dies of disease. Everyone is safe. Everyone is happy.
A cross between Orwell’s 1984 and Lowry’s The Giver, Matched explores the price of security. Of what was lost when people made safety and happiness the ultimate goal. Resonating with poetry, it is a story of hidden longing, hidden thoughts, and hidden expressions of resistance. Follow Cassia as she learns a life lived safely is no life at all.
From Esther's list on government oppression and courageous resistance.
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