Matched

What if our world was absolutely perfect. What if there was a panel of people who made all decisions for us? What if they told us what to eat, when to sleep, what to study, what our careers will be, who we are to marry if we are to marry, or stay single, how many kids we will have, what to wear, what to say or not say, what to read, what to write, what to play in the rec room, where to live, when to die, who to love... Basically having all choices taken from us with the trade off being that we live long productive lives, disease free, hunger free, never in want, always having just the right amount of anything to live just right.

I listened to this book and I loved the voice!

From the moment I hit play I fell in love with this story and its characters. Cassia Reyes ( I LOVE THAT SHE IS LATINA!) is on her way to her Match Banquet where she is will meet her future husband. Cassia at 17 will meet him and will get to know him slowly in a controlled environment throughout the next 4 years. Cassia's life is being mapped out before her and she trusts the Society completely because their methods have been proof positive... until she becomes one of the Society's social experiments.

I highly recommend this book. It is definitely thought provoking. It actually had me thinking about this world and how there is a world similar to this one in our present day... similar but not the same. It's hard to really know what is right, what is wrong, how far to take things to preserve humanity and give everyone the best fighting chance.

I can't really say more without giving key details that can be interpreted as a spoiler. You need to go into this book knowing that you are being introduced into a new world and you are basically living it along with Cassia getting a good sense of what it is like to live in her province. There are times where you will be shocked but things revealed are things you kind of expected but not at all predictable, if that makes sense. This book will leave you thinking if you will ever want a utopia type world. It will leave you wondering if things as bad as they are now is still the best possible scenario in the long run.