6/12/2023 0 Comments The matched trilogy![]() “Crossed,” ’the second book’ in the series, brought the couple into a rugged terrain and a survivalist mode, but the focus on physical threat didn’t save it from feeling slack and aimless.Ī third book is practically a given these days, and Condie has taken a brief two years to complete the trilogy with the release of “Reached.” An ambitious novel that attempts to weave together the very different strains of the previous books, “Reached” is far better than the second work in the series but never comes close to touching the great heights of the first. ![]() Taking a bit from Orwell’s “1984” and some more from Lois Lowry’s “The Giver,” Condie crafted a story about a smart teen girl who trusts her government and its system of selecting mates for its citizens - until she falls in love with the wrong boy.Ĭool and sophisticated where “The Hunger Games” was red hot and bloodthirsty, “Matched” convinced many that the YA genre was an intelligent force to be reckoned with in the general fiction world. ![]() Just two years ago, former English teacher Ally Condie released “Matched,” a wildly successful young adult crossover novel that landed on general fiction top 10 lists. ![]()
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