Crossed by Ally Condie

Title: Crossed

Author: Ally Condie

Type: Young Adult Novel
Genre: Fantasy

Series: Yes Matched #2

Pages: 367
Copyright: 2011
Publisher: Dutton Books

Rating: 3 out of 5


Summary: from Good Reads.

The Society chooses everything.

The books you read.
The music you listen to.
The person you love.

Yet for Cassia the rules have changed. Ky has been taken and she will sacrifice everything to find him.

And when Cassia discovers Ky has escaped to the wild frontiers beyond the Society there is hope.

But on the edge of society nothing is as it seems...

A rebellion is rising.

And a tangled web of lies and double-crosses could destroy everything.

Feelings: I enjoyed this book more than the first in the series. Cassia seems a little less like an annoying teenager that is having a fit that she didn't get her way and more like an individual that is going to make what she wants happen and not sit back and let people tell her.

This book unlike the first, that was just narrated by Cassia, switch between Cassia and Ky. Each chapter is dedicated to one of them in first person. At first I thought it might be a bit weird reading first person from two different perspectives but it does work.

I personally liked this book more than the first in the series. In this one we learn more about the society and what it does to stay in power and the Rising that is working against the society. We also learn about those that are on the outside and don't work with either. This was a stronger book that the first one because it dealt with difficult issues in an adult manner. Ky has been sent off to be a decoy in a war that doesn't exist and Cassia is trying to get to Ky. They both make compromises and in the end I think they are stronger characters because of it.

I would recommend this book to those that enjoyed the first Matched book. This is another book set in a post-American world but I don't think it exactly fits with the other books as far as the action as a result I don't think this book is a good fit for those looking for another Hunger Games like book.