Cassia has been waiting her whole live for her Match ceremony, for the night she will finally learn who she is to marry. It is the highlight of every young person's life. She is both surprised and relieved to learn that her future husband is to be Xander, her childhood best friend. But when she gets home, viewing her Match's data on the screen, it flickers briefly to a boy who is not her match--Ky. 
 We've seen the story before. Cassia lives in a "perfect" society, where the Officials tell her how to live her life. And she's accepting of this society, until she sees Ky's face in her Match data. For that means someone out there made a mistake, and the Officials don't make mistakes. 
 The tale boasts of a "love triangle," which isn't much of a triangle (Xander remains clueless) and was, quite honestly, not very exciting. Cassia goes back and forth between Ky and Xander, wondering who she loves more, because she obviously loves them both. 
 I was waiting for the breakdown of society, because that's what happens in these books, right? But so much focus was put on Cassia's love drama that there wasn't enough time to explore society. And it has the potential to be interesting. I'm intrigued by the way it's set up, but we don't know much about it. Ky is an Aberration, unable to take part in the Match ceremony, but what does that mean? And there are Singles--those who chose not to be Matched at all--who are only touched upon but never explored. In a society where marriage and uniformity is the norm, why would you choose to be a Single? What's the benefit? 
 I liked the story well enough, and I'm obviously going to continue with the series. After all, this is a dystopian trilogy, so we know that Cassia is going to unveil Big Secrets in book #2, with a breakdown of society in book #3. I'm a sucker for the breakdown in society. But it tells you something about the dystopian formula that I already know the ending, and I can guess Cassia's future, and I know who she's going to end up with. It's not an original story, but it's not bad.