#matched series

[dream-this-nightmare-over]

who else feels personally victimized by not getting matched movie/series with logan lerman as ky markham?

[readingbooksinisrael]

Bookoween: Shouldn’t Exist

Obviously I don’t want to live in a dystopia but because they’re scifi they often have things that I would like, like the hair detangler showers from The Hunger Games, the thing that automatically sees what food you need and gives it to you from the Matched series, and the really cool hoverboards from the Uglies series (not to mention their firefighters).

Is there anything you’d like from a dystopian world?

[pintofperegrine]

YA Dystopians Rated by How Much They Make Me Want to Gouge My Eyes Out

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld (7/10) A solid series with a slightly lackluster final entry. Wrestles with beauty, agency, and environmentalism, and comes to some pretty nuanced, interesting conclusions. Centers a compelling strained friendship, has a pretty good love triangle, and really commits to the worldbuilding. Hardly makes me want to gouge my eyes out at all!

Matched by Ally Condie (9/10) Takes place in a world that’s really similar to The Giver, where the government decides marriages, jobs, and deaths. Arts-centric and lyrical, with more interior conflict than external plot. Includes a creative and frequent use of poetry. Would probably make me want to gouge my eyes out if I didn’t have such a high tolerance for such extensive and dramatic metaphor.

The Jewel by Amy Ewing (6/10) Combines the dystopia with fantasy & magic in a really interesting way I haven’t seen elsewhere. Also, because it’s about teenage surrogates, goes all in on bodily autonomy, medical horror, and reproductive abuse. Really loses steam as the rebellion plot kicks in and the third book is infuriatingly hindered by it, which makes me want to gouge my eyes out a moderate amount.

The Selection by Kiera Cass (8/10) Really earnest, and surprisingly profound. Gets better with each book. Takes place in a monarchy-ruled future United States, and centers on a royal tradition where the prince picks a wife from a bunch of commoners sent to the palace in a contest (and how it’s a publicity stunt meant to distract the citizenry). The only part that makes me want to gouge my eyes out is how much time we spent hearing about makeovers in book 1. Other than that (sue me) it slaps.

Rook by Sharon Cameron (3/10) Takes place in post-apocalyptic France/England where society has somehow reverted to the French Revolution. Anyway, it’s very easy to forget that it’s set in the future as you’re reading it, and it really doesn’t have any of the politics or social criticism that makes a dystopian good. (It’s all character vs. One Specific Villain.) Engenders substantial eye-gouging.

[itsagoodlife]

And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.

Ally Condie

[pinkvinylmurder]

need easy reading book suggestions plss I've been book deprived recently so I bought a bunch but they're all older literature so they require more brain power than I want to use sometimes I like crime, mystery, horror, science fiction, and teen romance like paper towns and the matched series pls give me suggestions

[littlemoondance]

Apparently I never shared this series I read in July and August here yet 😅 so here’s what I wrote about them on IG forever ago lol

I just finished reading the Matched series. It’s a distopian book that starts of like an expanded version of The Giver, the first book is kind of a slower pace but is good. The second book all of the sudden in two point perspective with the second character being the first chapter (I didn’t realize it right away and I was super confused because I’m guilty of not reading chapter names and thought that was what was at the top 😅), and the third book was better than the second but not quiet as much as the first and has three points of views now third book. (I’m convinced if there was a fourth book it would’ve had four points of view) I enjoyed reading most of the books but didn’t love them.

Dystopian books aren’t something I usually gravitate towards though so it was fun to step outside my typical wheelhouse for a bit. Even if it wasn’t my favorite dystopian book(s) I’ve read.

[turquoisewaves07]

Oh my god I remember reading the Matched series in secondary school. And when reading about the main character's (Trisha's?) boring pointless and dystopian job, which was sorting people based on what they were good at or something I really wanted to do it. Like I can't specifically remember exactly what her job was but the idea was that it was basically sorting something into categories and my little autistic brain was like 😍 dream job 😍

[belreads06]

A society that controls everything for “optimal results” in life, where there is just enough you don’t want more. And yet the amazing story of Cassia and Ky goes completely against everything they have been taught is right. Just because they want more, because they want a choice. A Far in the future Romeo and Juliet, this book shows the love story of two unlikely teens. Ally Condie created this world where everything is perfect and no one asked questions, the detail is so well done , you can imagine the borough and city hall. Truly amazing and highly recommended, I can’t wait to read the second installation.

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