Synopsis via Goodreads:
Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe. So when Xander's face appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is her ideal mate . . . until she sees Ky Markham's face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black.
The Society tells her it's a glitch, a rare malfunction, and that she should focus on the happy life she's destined to lead with Xander. But Cassia can't stop thinking about Ky, and as they slowly fall in love, Cassia begins to doubt the Society's infallibility and is faced with an impossible choice: between Xander and Ky, between the only life she's known and a path that no one else has dared to follow.
I bought this book the day that it came out because I had heard that it was a dystopian love story (<3) and because I heard that the author got a $1,000,000 deal for it. A million dollars?! It has to be good, right?! Wrong. This book was a big fat RIP OFF. I hope that Condie shared her large sum of money with Lois Lowry and Suzanne Collins because those were the real authors of this book. The whole setting of the story was absurdly close to that of The Giver from the assignment banquet at the beginning to the whole hardcore strict government thing and the love plot was pretty dang close to the one in The Hunger Games. Also, at the end of the book I was left with a feeling that they were trying to make Cassia sound just like Katniss.
That being said, this book was not completely awful. I enjoyed some of the new ideas such as handwriting being extinct and poetry being lost and whatnot. These few factors that I enjoyed, however, were also very underdeveloped in the story and didn't convince me as much as I would have liked. Because of this, I was shocked to find that so many people on Goodreads gave this book 4 or 5 stars. I can only assume that these individuals either have not read The Giver or The Hunger Games or are complete idiots.
In short, I would have enjoyed this book much more if the ideas presented in it were original, but because The Giver and The Hunger Games are both as popular and as amazing as they are, I can only assume that the author stole her ideas from Lowry and Collins. I just couldn't get past my anger enough to enjoy the story much at all. Sorry, this review got a bit ranty.
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