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kawthar114's review
adventurous
dark
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Confinement, Gaslighting, Medical content, Death of parent, Deportation, and Classism
Moderate: Police brutality
Minor: War and Child death
strawberrytheauthor's review against another edition
adventurous
hopeful
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
It only got good after chapter 10. Even then it was slow going and hard to keep reading. I almost gave up but then something would happen that made me want to continue. It does have the love-triangle trope but that doesn’t start until chapter 6 and basically dissolves around chapter 20.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief, Death of parent, Classism, Death, Colonisation, Confinement, and Drug use
Moderate: Murder, Blood, Child death, and Police brutality
Minor: War
Cheatingtania_mybookishsecret's review against another edition
emotional
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death
Moderate: Grief
Minor: War and Child death
eyedoc's review
adventurous
dark
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Content Warnings
Minor: Child death
thewordlesspoet's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Child death
kali21's review
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Fire/Fire injury and Death of parent
Minor: Child death
homemadecircle's review
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
It's a good dystopian book. A clear bad guy that bends the line. Love, death, romance. Very well written, but the will they-wont they love triangle kind of kills it for me, it's simply not something I enjoy.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death of parent, Death, Child death, War, and Violence
Moderate: Toxic relationship, Police brutality, Infidelity, and Injury/Injury detail
nytephoenyx's review
fast-paced
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.25
Six years later, my thoughts on MATCHED haven't changed.
This book comes in with an awesome concept for its dystopian world, including and to a lot of older dystopias. Then it vaguely abandons that idea - the world may be a dystopia, but the world isn't what's important here - and follows the love story. This is all well and good if you're interested in the love story, or love stories in general. It's a lopsided love triangle and all the characters have about the personality of a can of creamed corn. But it's a quick read for those who like YA dystopian love stories with minimal consequences.
It's just... not the book I want, and not a book for me. The writing is so stiff and Cassia is so flat. I'm grateful for the pacing because I got through the book quickly, but I'm *so* over it now. There are so many better, more intriguing and satisfying books out there.
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Original Review (2014): Two Stars
See, the problem with Matched is that it has such a fabulous cover. The plot felt recycled and the world was The Giver meets The Hunger Games meets a thousand other dystopias I've read, with the uniqueness being almost only in the pills the characters carry, and even that had an edge of The Matrix.
I didn't like the book. I didn't like the love triangle. And furthermore, I'm frustrated because at the very end... about 30 pages left... I started to care a little about what happened. Because even though Cassia and Ky and Xander were such frustrating characters, I kind of actually cared about what happened to her parents. And just a little, I wanted to see what the world was like outside of her world.
So yes, I think I will read the next book, but maybe not the third. Unless it starts to feel less cliche.
This book comes in with an awesome concept for its dystopian world, including and to a lot of older dystopias. Then it vaguely abandons that idea - the world may be a dystopia, but the world isn't what's important here - and follows the love story. This is all well and good if you're interested in the love story, or love stories in general. It's a lopsided love triangle and all the characters have about the personality of a can of creamed corn. But it's a quick read for those who like YA dystopian love stories with minimal consequences.
It's just... not the book I want, and not a book for me. The writing is so stiff and Cassia is so flat. I'm grateful for the pacing because I got through the book quickly, but I'm *so* over it now. There are so many better, more intriguing and satisfying books out there.
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Original Review (2014): Two Stars
See, the problem with Matched is that it has such a fabulous cover. The plot felt recycled and the world was The Giver meets The Hunger Games meets a thousand other dystopias I've read, with the uniqueness being almost only in the pills the characters carry, and even that had an edge of The Matrix.
I didn't like the book. I didn't like the love triangle. And furthermore, I'm frustrated because at the very end... about 30 pages left... I started to care a little about what happened. Because even though Cassia and Ky and Xander were such frustrating characters, I kind of actually cared about what happened to her parents. And just a little, I wanted to see what the world was like outside of her world.
So yes, I think I will read the next book, but maybe not the third. Unless it starts to feel less cliche.
Content Warnings
Minor: Child death
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