This is the newest book in dystopian literature. When I told my students about it, they connected a lot of the plot with The Giver, but it reads more like The Hunger Games with love being even more at the center of the plot. Cassia, the protagonist, lives in a world where she does not have to make any choices. The society chooses how much food she eats, what types of exercise she is allowed to do, how her free time is spent, and most of all who she will marry when she turns 21. Cassia is seventeen and on the night of her matching ceremony she discovers she has been matched with her best friend, Xander. However, when she gets home and put Xander's microcard into the computer, to faces appear. One is Xander's and the other is a boy she also knows, Ky. Cassia starts to wonder what her life would be like if she lived it not with Xander, but with Ky. She starts to question the "perfect" society she lives in and rebelling against those that run it.
Condie's novel questions a future in which everything is chosen for us; when does society go too far? Does it go so far as to say that all people should die at the age of eighty, and if so, how will they die? This book is one that you won't want to put down, and in fact I was reading it so much that my husband threatened to "throw the book in the trash" or "hide it somewhere I would never find it again." What can I say, he likes my attention. The book does not have as much action as other dystopian novels, but it definitely makes us question and root for Cassia along the way. This is the first book in a trilogy, the second one coming out November of this year.
Check out the book trailer below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaeNWL8rlBI
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