Challenge Corner discussion

In the Society, officials decide. Who you love. Where you work. When you die.

Cassia has always trusted their choices. It’s hardly any price to pay for a long life, the perfect job, the ideal mate. So when her best friend appears on the Matching screen, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is the one…until she sees another face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black. Now Cassia is faced with impossible choices: between Xander and Ky, between the only life she’s known and a path no one else has ever dared follow—between perfection and passion.

Matched is a story for right now and storytelling with the resonance of a classic.

25%: (view spoiler)[ I really wanted to know what Grandpa gave Cassia in the compact. I love Grandpa, by the way; he's a rebel. (hide spoiler)]

50%: (view spoiler)[ I don't know how to feel about Cassia's dad losing Grandpa's tissue. On the one hand, reviving Grandpa in the future sounds wrong. On the other hand, I would also be mad if the last piece of my Grandfather was lost by his son. But, I think Grandpa told Cassia's dad to lose it or something. He doesn't seem like the type to lose something that important. (hide spoiler)]

75%: (view spoiler)[ I like the way the author wrote about Ky in Cassia's mind. It could be when Cassia was paying no attention to anything or letting her mind wander, and all of a sudden she's thinking about Ky again. I really liked that. Also, I'm confused about Ky's eyes. Just wanted to say that. (hide spoiler)]

Finished: (view spoiler)[ That was only slightly unexpected. I mean, Cassia had to find some way to follow Ky. But I respect her and her determination to find her man. (hide spoiler)]

I think I'll read these first thing in Nov:

1. Matched
TBA

2. Crossed
TBA

3. Reached
TBA

**************RESTARTING NOVEMBER 16TH 2020************

6% (view spoiler)[Crazy how everything is pretty much planned out for you. Having banquets to see who you match with to spend the rest of your life with them. Its almost always a stranger and very rare to match with someone in your city. Wonder what all the steps are that go into that (hide spoiler)]

37% (view spoiler)[ I cant imagine what it would be like to live in a world where it seems like you cant have your own thoughts and feelings. No creativity. Everyone having to look the same. Its just what is chosen for you. With Kasha having to destroy the poem, what is so wrong it that things like that need to be destroyed? (hide spoiler)]

50% (view spoiler)[How would that even bring someone back from the dead? How will a tissue sample do that? and if they even succeeded would the person even be the same person? (hide spoiler)]

66% (view spoiler)[Ky tells Cassia if he could match it would be with her!!! She should have told him that she seen him on her screen, that she's falling in love with him!! (hide spoiler)]

100% (view spoiler)[She loves him and she's going to try to find him!! Although Xander is in love with her, he is willing to help her find Ky and that has to be hard for him. I wonder what kind of journey she will have to go through to find Ky since she really knows nothing except how to live by society rules. Although she did get glimpses from all that she shared with Ky, I think it will be a tough journey. Cant wait to see what happens next! (hide spoiler)]