Reached (Matched, #3)

by Ally Condie

[bryannaleigh]

Once upon a time, I was going to write a review for this book. That was maybe about five days ago when I had finished the book, but I wanted to take the time to think about the book and collect my thoughts about it.

There series as a whole wasn't so bad. It could have been worse, and it could have been a lot better. The Rising group was a mediocre rebellion. The Society was a mediocre villain. I thoroughly enjoyed the first book of the series, and it just proceeded to go downhill from there. You root for love to work out, and you end up sitting through a whole novel in between of just walking from point A to point B, with a few things going on inbetween. And then things are thrown in that don't necessarily make sense or connect to anything else in any sort of way.

To be honest, I can't even remember the proper ending to this story. This chapter of the trilogy just kind of blurred into something that felt like a massive disappointment to a potentially good trilogy. And honestly, the society built into this world is actually pretty tamed compared to others. They fell way too easily to the Rising (which is explained by them having 'infritrated the system already). There was abolutlely no fight for the Rising to take over. None. Nada. Even though, there are still true Society members sitting around watching as a lame ass rebellion group takes them over.

Cassia and Ky's relationship also fell flat for me. All they can think about in the their sections is each other, and about half of the time, they aren't with each other, or don't know if they're alive, or if they're okay, or whatever. And then Ky becomes "still" and a character tries killing all the patients that are still and being tested for cures all because his daughter was left to die when the village left him in book 2. Which, is kind of shitty, since he had already known that was the circumstance and she wouldn't have made it to the new location and yadda yadda ya.

I just really don't know. It was a boring book of this person loving this person, whos in love with this person, whos not in love with them and all the other dumb love triangles. (I understand it's a story that starts out with love being the premise, but you don't need every other character falling in love with the other.) There was a lot of interesting premises within the novel, but none of them shone as brightly as they could as they were massed by everything else.

On the plus side, the cover is pretty.