Everything that made "Catching Fire" the perfect second installment of a trilogy is completely missing in this book. The cold clinical feeling of "Matched" worked for the environment of the story, but I was hoping that throwing these characters into a more natural setting was going to breathe life ...
This review was first posted on Music, Books and TeaYou may or may not know this, but I have a really bad love/hate relationship with books that are the second in a series. As a general rule of thumb, they tend to be my least favourite book of the series, because nothing much really seems to happen ...
I read Matched several years ago (I had an ARC), so it took me a while to get into this story (it jumped right in). Once I started remembering the characters, their lives, and the world, I was sucked in anew. One of the things I like the most about Condie's writing is how lyrical she can be. And hav...
Despite all the reviews saying otherwise, my personal experience with this book was that it was very similar in quality to the first. They're both slower plots with beautiful prose. I did feel a little lost when at the end Cassia's back in the society in pretty much the same place that she started....
I got passed half way, but personally, I wasn't a fan of how much there was of walking in the middle of nowhere with nothing happening. I'll probably skim the ending later for the sake of finishing, but this series doesn't seem to suit my simple and more childish fun tastes.
This has a serious case of second-book-in-trilogy-itis. Although some suspense is built up, most of the book is either Cassia or Ky monologuing about how much they love each other and hate The Society. Every word spoken or thought seems to be intended to be filled with deep significance, which gets...
Why? Why do I do this to myself? My bad habit of reading a series even though I hated its first book has shown me some horrific days and reading Crossed was one of them.I absolutely hated Matched and I had 0 expectations from this one, I know it is my fault that I read this but I can't help my...
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