Looks Like a Girlie Book....

But it's not.

Matched by Ally Condie looks like a young adult, pre-teen, girlie book. The cover is light spring green, and it has a girl in a ball gown on the cover in a glass ball.  I thought it was going to be a love story, and I guess in a way, it was. At it's core though, this book is a dystopian novel.

The society runs everything. They decide what you eat, what your job is, where you live, who you marry, and, for the most part, when you die. Crazy, right?

The book starts out at Cassia's matching ceremony. When young people turn seventeen, they are matched with their future mate. They have a big dinner, and the participants dress up for it. Cassia finds out that she is matched with her childhood friend, Xander. That alone is unusual. When Cassia looks at her microchip about her match, she finds not only Xander, but another childhood friend, Ky.

Ky, it turns out, was a mistaken match. He is an aberration, and they aren't allowed to marry. We never find out why Ky is an aberration, but this doesn't change Cassia's friendship with him. Then Cassia finds she is falling for Ky. This is not supposed to happen. Ky and Cassia share secrets, and test the boundaries of the Society.

I cannot share more without giving away what happens at the end. It was pretty good though. I will have to borrow the rest of the series from the library to see what happens.