Book three of this trilogy feels like the author changed her mind part way in and switched where the story was going. In Books
1(Matched) &
2(Crossed)
it felt like it was going to be a love story with this battle of The
Society and The Rising as the backdrop. Then in Reached the love story
of becomes the backdrop for the redesigning of a nation after a plague
used by both sides gets out of control.
Reached was a good book and it raises some really interesting questions, such as:
- When a government gets too big and tries to control too much, in
what seems to be with the people’s interests in mind and then a
rebellion tries to free the people but becomes just another version of
the government which side do you take?
- How much freedom is too much or is there such a thing as too much freedom?
- Is art and free expression dangerous?
- How much can a population be trusted to know and understand and how much protecting do they need?
All in all this was a good series in what seems to have become a
sub-genre of YA literature that was started with Uglies and made more
popular with Hunger Games
(read Dec. 2012)
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