Reached (Matched)

Readers, if you've not delved into Ally Condie's trilogy by now you should know that the below has MAJOR SPOILERS. It can't be helped. This is the third in the trilogy. You have been warned.Cassia, Ky, and their friends have been through a lot. After making their way through the canyons they finally connected with the Rising. Now, Cassia has been sent back to Society and Ky has become a pilot. Both Cassia and Ky know that the Rising's plans are coming to a head, but surprisingly it's Xander who has the inside track. Xander's part in the Rising has been kept secret until now but before he can reveal the truth to Cassia, an outbreak of massive proportions hits Society. All three once again find themselves cut off from one another and trying to reconnect as Society falls to the Rising. The resistance group reveals the truth to the citizens, offering up their own alternative and promising a cure to the outbreak, until things take an unexpected turn. Now, Cassia, Ky, and Xander might prove to be the only hope for fixing things.The Plague driving REACHED appealed to the medical thriller fan in me while the story moved along more of the dystopian basis of the overall plot and the dangers in allowing those in charge too much power with too little oversight. Both Society and the Rising are manipulative and untrustworthy in spite of their reassurances that they have the interests of the people in mind.I have to admit that Ally Condie's wrap up to the trilogy was one of my most anticipated titles of 2012. Why has it taken me so long to review it, then? I'm honestly not sure. I can say that while REACHED did tie up many of the loose ends, it also left more questions for me in the end. In fact, some of the barely touched upon portions of Reached were the parts that I desperately wanted more of!The introduction of the Otherlands and more of the history of Society seemed a little unfair at this point considering the trilogy is at an end. Cassia, Ky, and Xander's stories all tie up fairly neatly but I admit I'm not ready to leave this world behind as a reader. Which is unfortunate.That aside, REACHED hit all the right notes and was an exciting end to the trilogy. I felt like Condie introduced a lot of thoughtful ideas and made each installment in the trilogy completely unique in terms of setting and story. And the world building, as I've mentioned before, is really fantastic throughout the series! I've not seen anything about what Condie might be working on next, but I'll certainly be awaiting whatever it is with great anticipation.

THIS HAS SPOILERS!!! YOU ARE WARNED!!!1Title: ReachedAuthor: Ally CondieRating: 4.0My Review"The way that the two of them look at each other is like touching."This trilogy has been something of a long and personal journey for me. Matched was one of the first books I read after downloading the Kindle App to my phone, and helped to reawaken my interest in reading for enjoyment. Matched also reminded me how much I'd always enjoyed dystopians. I loved learning little details of the Society, like the "Hundred" things and the Banquet Ceremonies. I also appreciated the oppressive, inescapable tension created by the Society. What I craved at the time was to know more.Reached gives you more. WAAAAAAAAAAY More. To say that this final installment gets going quickly is an understatement. It fires you out of the cannon from the first page, which is something of a relief after the waiting, waiting, waiting of Crossed. I will say that Reached is so detailed that at times I had to go back and review to keep up. That being said, I was also reading at warp speed, because the tension was good. General impression: I enjoyed Reached.What I LovedCassia - I didn't write this review until a week had passed since I finished the book. Sometimes that means my impressions whisper away with the time, but sometimes it helps to clarify them. In Reached, what struck me most was Cassia. I finally loved Cassia the way I'd always wanted to love her: NOT as a thing of Ky's or a thing of Xander's, but a thing of her own, like Indie. Entirely, utterly Cassia. A poet. An artist. A rebel in her own way. A seeker of beauty in an ugly world. I love that she finally found her center and her strength. It actually made me retroactively like Crossed better. There was a reason Condie had to drag Cassia through all that (or at least most of it), and there was a reason Indie was her foil.Do Not Go Gentle - In this series, I have always enjoyed Condie's use of imagery and poetry. Her love of poetry is intensely palpable. And as a long-time lover of dystopian's, I have to say that Condie's selection of Thomas' "Do Not Go Gentle" is genius. It is the beating heart of her tension, and is interpreted literally through Cassia's grandfather's final choices and figuratively through the personal rebellions of the main characters.Allowance for complexity - A lot of reviewers were critical of Matched for not providing enough info about the Society. I can agree with this. I personally wanted more of my villains. But then, I've always loved a good villain. In Reached, Condie nearly overcompensates with the detailed history of the chess match between the Society and the Rising. In the end, I actually found myself confused at points about who gave what Plague to whom and which version??? Overall though, I ended up with the sense that as organizations, neither the Society nor the Rising was ideal. This, to me, is a realistic outcome. I'd read some critiques of The Hunger Games that expressed dissatisfaction for the "non-happily-ever-after" ending. But that was something I really liked about that trilogy. I feel the same way about Reached.I like that Condie's characters and story line all grew up together. In the beginning, this was a story of children. By the end, it's a story of adults.The things that were not my absolute favorites....Too much I LOVE CASSIA SO MUCH. - Ok, the boys both love her. With all their hearts. Since they were young (much younger than I realized before, apparently). THIS is why people kvetch about love triangles. I don't mind them, because they happen in real life. But they don't happen like this. I LOVE HER SO MUCH SO MUCH SO MUCH, CAN"T LIVE WITHOUT HER HOPE WE END UP TOGETHER SHE"S SO BEAUTIFUL AND VIBRANT AND ALIVE I LOVE HER SOOOOOOO MU UH UH UCH!Sometimes, Reached felt like this. A little too much longing in an area where no one is confused that longing already exists.Also, the Lei-Vick-Ky-Xander thing was a little weird. Sometimes I wonder about weaving characters back in (Lei Nei - Laney). It seemed too convenient for no reason. I could have liked the Lei-Xander connection without it...Repetitive Imagery - I sometimes feel like she hammers the images over and over once she creates them. Particularly red, green, blue. If you've read this series, then by book three, you've absorbed a lot of this trio. She doesn't have to revisit it as often as she does, particularly in the wrap-up.End of Indie - I get it. I do. I totally get it. She's the Pilot. It's a metaphor. She guided them over the River Styx, never to return herself. And the world didn't need a Pilot like her anymore, not once the THREE stepped into their own. I get that your heart aches for her, just like Condie wanted it to ache. For some readers, this may be the *perfect* ending to Indie's story.But I personally am kind of hurt by this treatment of this character. The goodbye felt hurried, somehow, for a character who had earned my interest. And it felt like what always happens to the super-cool, badass girl who's outside-looking-in on the love triangle. (Sort of a la SuperTroopers.) Just once, I want the Indie to get the girl and the Cassia to bite it...or maybe they both find love, or both die. Just seems to me that the cool girl "outside" of a love triangle is about as long-lived as an ensign on Star Trek.OVERALLReached was an enjoyable, action-packed ending to a good dystopian series. If you are a Matched-lover, I have NO doubt you'll love Reached. If you, like me, were a little less happy with Crossed, but did like Matched, you should still pick up Reached. You will really enjoy it.

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This is the 3rd book in the series. I read the 1st one a while back and really enjoyed it! I usually don’t enjoy reading, but this series I did. The story line is easy to follow and it is unique, as it happens in some sort of future. The book is well written and draws you into it, as though you feel like you are in the characters eyes through the story. The first book she starts out in a bubble on the front cover and as the series goes on, she starts to break out, which represents this book well. I highly recommend reading all three books in the series (Matched, Crossed, andReached). I hope you all enjoy!

la triologia es muy interesante y te hace reflexionar sobre los futuros distopicos. me encanto! fue una muy buena compra

livre anglophone broché à couverture cartonnée souple petit format récent (2013) présentant le troisième et dernier tome d'une trilogie d'anticipation imaginée par Ally Condie; Reached (Conquise pour sa traduction française):dans ce tome final Cassia, redevient citoyenne de la "Société" tout en étant une partisane du "Soulèvement"; elle est soumise à de terribles épreuves car la "peste" une épidémie virale qui a échappé à ses concepteurs décime les populations; elle retrouve Xander, devenu médecin et son amour de jeunesse Ky devenu lui aviateur dans les provinces frontières où ils sont chargés par le "Pilote" de chercher un remède à la maladie; on assiste à la lente prise de conscience de la jeune fille et de ses amis qui découvrent que les cadres du Soulèvement et de la Société sont en fait interchangeables depuis des générations et que cette catastrophe aurait pu être évitée; elle est toujours amoureuse de Ky et cherche à ménager son fiancé qui devra néanmoins finir par s'effacer malgré sa perfection; de nombreux flash-backs font références aux parents et grand-parents de la jeune fille et de Ky expliquant à posteriori bien des comportements;ce magnifique roman d'anticipation captivera tous ceux qui ont lu premiers tomes;l'anglais est tout à fait accessible dans cette édition brochée bon marché mais à la police plus grande et donc lisible que dans les éditions de poche habituelles; le papier recyclé et la brochure ne paraît pas devoir résister à un usage intensif et au temps; pas d'illustrations sauf lesmerci de cliquer ci-dessous si ce commentaire vous a paru utile

Love this book read first two books and got hooked on. Loved it!