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Often you can tell how much I am enjoying a book by how quickly it takes me to finish it. I made it through this book fairly quickly, though not quite as quickly as I did “Matched. “Crossed” is, in my opinion, just as good of a book, though it didn’t leave me questioning things as much as “Matched” did. This book seemed to be more of a transitional story, setting things up for the final book in the trilogy.

In “Crossed”, we learn much more about how the Society came to exist as well as about the main characters’ pasts. While describing things happening in the present of the story, we are given much of the history of this world; information that we were left wondering about in “Matched”. We also learn more about the Rising, a hidden group that disagrees with the Society’s apparent belief that choices are something that only cause problems. The Rising is a group that some believe will help them to be free to make their own choices in life and will help to end the rules that the Society has imposed on everyone.

While I did enjoy this book, I preferred reading “Matched”. “Matched” made me think about and question things much more than “Crossed” did. That isn’t to say that I didn’t enjoy “Crossed”: I did enjoy it and I am very much looking forward to finishing the series. I want to see what will happen with the Society next. Can it survive as is, or will it fall as have so many other governments that tried to control their populations?


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Crossed Ally Condie Books Reviews

The society the author has created is based on an interesting idea, but the she doesn't develop the idea into a believable society. Several things about the society don't really make sense if you think about them for longer than 2 seconds (Why can't these people write?? What are the "Otherlands"?) Ultimately, the world she has created lacks substance.

Additionally, the characters are weak and/or one-dimensional. The book is supposed to be about a revolution, but its never entirely clear whether the characters are active participants in it. It's more of a love-story, but the author doesn't develop Cassia into an interesting character, so it's kindof hard to understand why these two boys are sooo in love with her. Ky is just as boring- he is wounded and sullen throughout the whole book. Xander is the only interesting character in the series, and you don't get to read from his point of view until the third book.

Overall, I wouldn't recommend these books unless you have a lot of free time and a soft spot for Dystopian teen love triangles. I was just barely interested enough to complete the series, and that is mostly only because I have a lot of downtime babysitting. In the end, I was frustrated that these books weren't better. The last two books are filled with poorly thought-out plot twists and turns, and it's clear the author is trying fill pages of an otherwise lame and completely predictable love triangle story. I've been reading a lot of the dystopian teen romance series in an effort to find one even half as good as the Hunger Games, and this series falls miserably short. One of the reasons the Hunger Games was SO good was because Panem felt real... it's rules made sense, and it's existence was plausible because its characters, their actions, and the consequences felt real. Suzanne Collins didn't try to compensate for lack of substance or character development with confusing and ultimately boring plot twists (the Pilot? the samples? the Otherlands? Viruses on Vaccines on Cures on Viruses on Cures?? Come on)

I don't regret reading this series, because I have a lot of free time, but I definitely don't think I gained anything from them... they left no lasting impression (unlike the Harry Potter series or the Hunger Game series.
Crossed is the 2nd book in the Matched series and although I still loved it, I didn't find it quite as engrossing as the first book. For the majority of the book, the three main characters were apart and so much of the appeal lies in the dynamic between them.

That being said, Ky has much more of a voice in this book than in the last. Of course, Xander has less, which is sad because I love Xander. But we learn so much more about Ky, his past, how he has come to be who and where he is. There was a message of self-discovery in the first book through Cassia and that same theme is carried through this book, both in Cassia's story and in Ky's.

What I love about this series, and this book in particular, is that the YA romance is really almost secondary to the story line. It is important and present, yes, but it is not the sole focus of the story. In fact, this book was more emotionally charged than the first, but those emotions were a lot less romantically-motivated. There is a whole wide range of emotions to give characters besides love and all of the typical romantic ones and I am glad to see those explored in these characters.

Much of the book was about just that, real life. Ky's fight for survival, facing tough choices in impossible situations. Cassia's journey, too, was about survival, learning to trust, learning to trust herself. There was more at stake here than romance. There was the world as they knew it. The Carving, The Rising, saving their society from itself.

Things to love...

--The recognition that there is more to life than romance. There is real life.
--The tough choices and lessons that the characters had to go through.

Things I wanted more/less of...

--More Xander. I missed his voice in this book.

My Recommendation No, this book didn't grab me quite as much as the first, but it is a story that still has me hooked. It certainly didn't put me off wanting to read the final book in the series, Reached.
Often you can tell how much I am enjoying a book by how quickly it takes me to finish it. I made it through this book fairly quickly, though not quite as quickly as I did “Matched. “Crossed” is, in my opinion, just as good of a book, though it didn’t leave me questioning things as much as “Matched” did. This book seemed to be more of a transitional story, setting things up for the final book in the trilogy.

In “Crossed”, we learn much more about how the Society came to exist as well as about the main characters’ pasts. While describing things happening in the present of the story, we are given much of the history of this world; information that we were left wondering about in “Matched”. We also learn more about the Rising, a hidden group that disagrees with the Society’s apparent belief that choices are something that only cause problems. The Rising is a group that some believe will help them to be free to make their own choices in life and will help to end the rules that the Society has imposed on everyone.

While I did enjoy this book, I preferred reading “Matched”. “Matched” made me think about and question things much more than “Crossed” did. That isn’t to say that I didn’t enjoy “Crossed” I did enjoy it and I am very much looking forward to finishing the series. I want to see what will happen with the Society next. Can it survive as is, or will it fall as have so many other governments that tried to control their populations?