This will be the first time I write a review for a book, and I probably will not do so again. This is mostly because I did not know what I thought of the book. I LOATHE dis-topia books, just something about them irks me. Maybe it is because of the whole "you're being held down, but don't know it" thougthy about it. However, I thought Ally Condie's writing was beautiful and I admire her ablitity to write in a futuristic mind set, I can not do that myself. I LOATHED Brave New World, this book had a touch of that in here, but I liked that I was still able to understand stuff that are out of our time. Her ablitiy to describe is also really well done. I had trouble with the dis-topia in the first 200 pages, but once the characters got more involved in the story I was able to get more into it. I really enjoyed her characters, Cassia was a strong female character and who is both believable and someone to look up to as she is figuring out the world around her, and herself at a cruical point in her life. Yeah it was a little slow pace of the book, but Matched is written to have you think, with teens that are able to think out their actions then the "pure my hormones made me do it, you just don't understand me" idea. I can not wait to read the next book.