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May 31, 2013samdog123 rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
Another teen dystopian novel. Plot was original enough, but was is plausible? Not sure. In a world where "the society" organizes your life, what you eat, who you marry, how many children you will have and even your leisure activities, I would have expected to have more wooden, colourless characters. But, everyone seems to be very trusting and naive--if you've never had any choice, how would you miss it? Quite horrifying the control that is in effect to govern the society. When the main character, Cassia, asks an official why they can't choose their own match, the official says, "well then you'd have people wanting to choose how many children they have, and their vocation--we can't have that" An interesting and different read, if that's what you're looking for.