![]() ![]() The Rising will be welcomed with open arms. ![]() As the Rising makes its move to liberate Society, it uses not brutal violence, but rather a tactic that will play upon the populace’s emotions: the rebels have helped introduce a plague, and then they will bring the cure. The second book has the characters fighting for love as well as survival in the real world outside of Society. The first book develops the idea of forbidden love in a rigidly controlled Society. All three individual books left something to be desired, but I think together they have some very interesting ideas, and if you like dystopia and scifi and love triangles, they are worth a look.Įach book in the series has a slightly different setting and theme, looking at different aspects of dystopian society in a thoughtful way, less action-packed than other current YA selections. I requested Reached from my library as soon as it came out in November, and as the months passed waiting in line for it, I actually forgot I had done so, so little was my interest.īut after reading Reached, I feel comfortable recommending the series as a whole. But I am a completist, and I hate leaving books and series unfinished. I gave a fairly lukewarm review of the first two books in the series, Matched and Crossed. ![]() Reached by Ally Condie was a book that I felt I *should* read rather than I *wanted* to read. ![]()
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