I love when YA surprises me. I was expecting another lack-luster dystopian YA love story, but Matched turned out to be much more than that. It's a quiet story a a "perfect" society that was at first oddly remniscent to the world Lois Lowry creates in The Giver. But you soon find out that the Society is a bit darker than Lowry's world. The love triangle isn't as cliche as you'd expect it to be and the book is surprisingly filled with extremely touching moments that brought tears to my eyes. It's pages are filled with unexpected moments of poetry and I finished it in less than 3 days. I recommend it, and it's the first book in a trilogy I know I want to continue. (On a sidenote-I hate the cover, I think it trivializes the maturity and message of the book)