Reached

I really enjoyed Reached. The plague in this book was a really interesting thing to read about Post-2020. I loved the development of a cure and, honestly, just all the medical things. It could've been more detailed, but it wasn't something I expected from this book, so it didn't bother me that it wasn't.  I didn't care much for the romances in this story towards the end. I cared more about the FMC and her family, as well as the politics of a revolution.

The only dystopia book(s) that includes the arts and poetry that are essential to personal expression.

Boringggg. Only kept reading to figure out a few of my unanswered questions. Answers were very disappointing. “Matched” was the only good book in the series!

I gave this book 250 pages and I couldn't keep reading. After the travesty the author called a second book, I hoped this one would be better. No such luck. The only good thing about this whole series is the first book (Matched) and the covers of all three books.

I didn't like this nearly as much as the first book of the series, or even as much as the second. Too much poetry and such. Not able to connect with the characters personally.

Not as good as the first one better than the second one. I really enjoyed the medical talk of this one it makes me wonder what the future will be like.

Perfection.

Complete and utter perfection. Ally Condie made up for Crossed's lackluster performance tenfold. I cried when it was over just because it was over.

There are so many books, especially YA books, that have the love triangle thing going on and usually it's a love/hate kind of thing for me. I love one suitor, hate the other. But in this trilogy that's impossible to do. Ky and Xander are both amazing, wonderful characters that I couldn't choose. And Cassia, she's not annoying, she's not stringing them along (a la Bella to Jacob in New Moon) she loves them both, but knows that Ky is the one she's to be with. Her love for Xander means that she will go to the ends of the Earth to save him if she needs to as well as protect Ky.

There are usually characters you hate, but everyone here just found a place in my heart. It sounds so cheesy and it's actually making me tear up here to think about it. Indie....oh Indie was one I didn't trust at first, in The Carving, but she was worthy of her own book. Eli, Hunter, Anna, Oaker, Lei, Molly, Bram, they weren't just background characters that you forget about. They were an intergeral part of the story that wouldn't be complete, wouldn't be memorable without them.

Part of me wishes that the story would go on. That I could follow all of them forever. The other part of me is glad that there was this ending. That I could rest in the knowledge that everything was as it should be. Perhaps.

Such an intriguing story. Ally Condie didn't reinvent the dystopian wheel, but she wrote one hell of a story. A great ending!

Review to come.

Hmm. Well, I have to say that Matched exceeded my expectations given that it sounded kind of like a formulaic YA dystopia, and I liked Crossed as well. Reached fell a bit flat for me, but if you read and liked the first two, you're left with little choice but to conclude the trilogy. Reached felt more formulaic to me than the first two, and it didn't feel... IDK, I just wasn't very invested in the downfall of the Society and that Plague and like, whatever. I felt like way too many pages were dedicated to descriptions of plants.

Maybe I would have been more shaken by Reached if I had read this when I was a teen. Or a tween. And if I had never read the Giver.

SORRY BOUT IT