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    By Ally Condie

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    The thrilling conclusion to the New York Times Bestselling Matched Trilogy!
     
    Perfect for fans of 1984, Brave New World, Black Mirror, and The Handmaid’s Tale.

    Cassia’s journey began with an error, a momentary glitch in the otherwise perfect façade of the Society. After crossing canyons to break free, she waits, silk and paper smuggled against her skin, ready for the final chapter.

    The wait is over.

    One young woman has raged against those who threaten to keep away what matters most—family, love, choice. Her revolution is about to explode into full-scale rebellion. As an incurable plague sweeps through the Society, Cassia races to save both the lives and freedom of those she loves. With exquisite prose, the emotionally gripping conclusion to the international–bestselling Matched trilogy returns Cassia, Ky, and Xander to the Society to save the one thing they have been denied for so long, the power to choose.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Group
    Release dateNov 13, 2012
    ISBN9781101591710
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    Ally Condie

    Ally Condie is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Matched trilogy. A former English teacher, she lives with her husband and four children outside of Salt Lake City, Utah, and is the founder of the non-profit WriteOut Foundation.

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    • 3/5
      Once again - YA series where I really liked the first book, the second was ok and the third was a big let down. When one of your main characters (the 'bad" boy) is pretty much in a coma the whole time, the love triangle kinda loses it's steam! Meanwhile the big revolution is a big bore.
    • 5/5
      Reached is one of the best books I have read in a long time – a beautiful combination of action, adventure and romance that took me by surprise - I didn’t like Matched and Crossed that much, in fact, I didn’t like them at all! I think Reached would have been epic as a stand alone novel, it works well on its own and is nice, self-contained story that brings the elements of the trilogy together brilliantly.The biggest factors in my dislike of the previous books of the series were the characters: they were so boring and predictable, and I couldn’t stand Cassia. In this book the characters finally have some agency, and because the three protagonists are separated from one another, they each have independent story lines supplement one another and only come together near the end. I also liked that, unlike the previous books, Reached isn’t primarily about the love triangle between Cassia, Xander and Ky – it’s about the Rising and how everyone deals with all the changes. It’s a refreshing change that finally allows readers to understand the Society and the world that the author has created.Which brings me to the world building. I was impressed by the expansion of the world into new regions, but I was really disappointed we never got to see the Otherlands. I really want to know what the rest of the world is doing. It’s an aspect that dystopian books always leave out – how did the rest of the world allow it to happen, and what are they doing, or not doing, to save the people? One of my favourite aspects was that Ky got to explore so much of the world as a pilot, and we got to see many more cities and provinces. And we even go back to where it all started, albeit briefly.The other thing I really liked about Reached is the scientific aspect of it. It was really interesting to learn about the Plague, its propagation and vaccinations and cures needed for it. It was obvious that the author really did her research, and it showed. The means of dispensing this background is also brilliant: instead of giving us lectures on Epidemiology, Condie reveals aspects of the science through conversation between characters, and the reader is left to connect the dots and arrive at the appropriate conclusions themselves.Reached was a great read, an excellent conclusion to the series, and I am glad I have stuck with it! I think those who love a good dystopian story will enjoy this book, and if reviews of Matched and Crossed have put you off, then at least read this one, because it’s really good!A copy of this book was provided by the publisher for review.You can read more of my reviews at Speculating on SpecFic.
    • 4/5
      Good. A little different than what I expected the 3rd novel in this series to be, but I thought it was a good ending to the series.
    • 3/5
      This book was ok I liked the others in the series better. But the ending was ok but not really final for me to sad.
    • 3/5
      The trilogy concludes with a race to cure the innocent citizens of a disease unleashed by the resistance but created by Society. Who is to blame for the deaths it causes? Who are the good guys and who are the bad? These are the questions our heroine, Cassia, struggles with as she and her friends try to find a place in the new order of things. A bit melodramatic and highly coincidental (really? a teenaged girl is the key to everything?), but that's to be expected of YA dystopian fiction. This is not the worst example of the genre I've read and it certainly kept me turning pages. The relationships were more realistic and well-developed than some I could name (*cough*Katniss & Peeta*cough*), but still pretty trope-y. It's possible that I'm being more critical than necessary because I'm mildly embarrassed to admit I enjoyed this series.
    • 3/5
      This series has been incredibly spotty for me. I didn't really like Matched, but some weird reason I went ahead and read Crossed. The weirdest part is that I actually really thought that was a great example of what to do in a second book of a trilogy. I was beyond excited to pick up Reached. Here's my biggest problem with this entire series. . . I HATE Cassia. I really do. It's hard to be invested in her because I think she is flighty, dense and somehow remains incredibly naive despite all of the crazy things she goes through. Xander though? I really, really like him. I was thrilled every time a Xander chapter came up. Xander chapters were intense and full of plot development. Cassia's were fluff that I just wanted to rip out and Ky. . .wait, who was Ky again? Kidding. He is just not memorable to me in the slightest and I don't even slightly understand the Ky appeal.

      Overall this book wasn't terrible but it also wasn't anyway near all that I had hoped it would be. If you like Xander even just a little bit then you should read Reached. If not, then you really aren't missing out.
    • 2/5
      Boring. Disconnected. Disappointing.
    • 4/5
      After leaving Society to desperately seek The Rising, and each other, Cassia and Ky have found what they were looking for, but at the cost of losing each other yet again. Cassia is assigned undercover in Central city, Ky outside the borders, an airship pilot with Indie. Xander is a medic, with a secret. All too soon, everything shifts again.
    • 3/5
      I liked this series but, after pages and pages of the plague ad nauseum the pay off at the end was a bit abrupt. I always kind hoped she would end up with her real love...

      Still I loved the trilogy and would read it again.
    • 3/5
      These books are written very poetically, and for descriptive purposes it works well. This book is good, however, it lacked too much to be great. To me, it just seems that for some of the bigger, more important points in the book only the surface is touched. Instances could be grander and more explosive to show how relevant they are to not only the main characters in the book, but also to their society as a whole. The ending, for me, was just ok. Too much is left in the unknown to make me appreciate it.
    • 5/5
      The ending is suspenfull for sure you want to know what happens to the people but will never it takes a bit to get over it sadly but #LOVEKYMARKHAM
    • 3/5
      It took me more than half the book to get into it but I did like the last third or so. Some things were too convenient though.
    • 2/5
      This might be the best I the three books...but the writing still feels forced and lacking.
    • 4/5
      This book ended as I expected it to. Which can sometimes be bad, but in this case was good. I like a happy ending now and then. It was definately a page-turner. I wanted to know how things worked out for each of the main characters. Although, there was some tragedy, which is to be expected, I am happy to say things worked out as they were meant to. I can't say much else without spoiling the book for others.
    • 4/5
      After having a major disappointment from another trilogy ending, I was pleasantly surprised by Reached, the last of the Matched trilogy. After an underwhelming 2nd book, I was nervous, but Condie delivered the goods. The stakes are higher, lives are threatened, secrets are revealed, all that a trilogy should be. I had closure, but not everything is wrapped up too neatly because that would be too unbelievable for a dystopian. I just wish I could remember more details from the other two books. That is my only qualm with trilogies and series, the waiting between books really tests my memory. Anyways, if you like dystopian, romance inspired novels, read this trilogy.
    • 3/5
      * * * Maybe a 3.5 * * *

      Pros:
      * So, that's the rebellion
      * Actual action

      Cons:
      * I still didn't feel the love
      * Gosh I wish I could remember what made people Anomalies and Aberrations.

      So, why was there a second book?

      In all seriousness, if Cassia and Xander had been recruited to the Rising at the end of the first book, and the Rising had scooped up Ky this book could have started in the exact same place.

      Though this book was a marked improvement over book two, I still didn't feel connected to the main characters or understand the connection between Ky and Cassia.

      Finally, if I could have one wish in the world, it would be that YA authors stop attempting the multiple POV. Use a 3rd person narrative if you want to cover the actions of multiple characters.
    • 2/5
      Read this in audio format. Again this book was just okay. Still feel pretty indifferent and stopped caring for the characters and the story line.
    • 5/5
      I had high hopes for this one... I wanted it to wrap up all the loose ends that the other books left hanging, and it did. Condie is a wonderfully descriptive writer, and I found myself wanting to move slowly through this book because I wasn't ready for it to end. I loved the way it connected all the dots. Even though the love triangle (square--pentagon??) didn't end exactly how I had hoped, I could see how she chose to wrap things us was for the best. I loved the red garden day memory with Cassia's Grandfather, and how the "answer" came from her mother. Chapter 44 -- Wow. I won't say more, but wow! Such a powerful writing technique. Very unique. You'll have to read it for yourself and see.

      This was definitely my favorite of the series. It seemed much more "meaty" than the others, and I loved the new characters like Anna and Oker. I felt like it was finally "bigger" than the relationship dilemma, and I loved all the little plot twists -- like just who was emptying Ky's medicine bag!

      Would I recommend this to my BFF? Yes!
      Would I recommend it to my teenage daughter? Absolutely! I'm trying to get her to read the whole series!

      5 of 5 stars.
    • 3/5
      I just wanted so much more from this series. There was this horrible tragedy of a purposefully inflicted plague that killed thousands of people and the main characters were more interested in their love-triangle than anything else. There was no outrage that the Rising was just the reincarnation of the Society or even a feeling of change at the end. Life just went on, which is probably the point, but the lack of motivation from the characters outside of the romance just didn't do it for me.
    • 4/5
      Honestly I'm being generous with this rating...again it's my undying love for Xander that I'm giving it one more star than it deserves....let's pretend that thing says 3.5 instead of 4 okay?Have you noticed how the covers are corresponding of each of the shady tablets provided by Society? If not then here you go!Okay on the book...It was definitely the best book of the series no doubt about it. Yes it was. I am sure of it. Period.There was so much more substance and higher stakes for the original trio because of what we found out in the last novel, that they joined the rebellion against society OMG. Each has their part to play and honestly Cassia nor Ky's part intrigued me at all but Xander, oh boy Xander. I knew this guy was amazing from the start...Still confused as to why Cassia didn't choose him. But no worries there's still Lei, a former city official who worked with Xander before the Rising decided to take over and infect people as a means of threatening Society to stop pulling the matching crap. I actually like Lei but remember Vick? Just keep this in mind when reading...I still loved Xander the best by the end of the book...And not just because he has been my favorite the entire time, his POV was honestly the best of the three. I feel like Condie got bored writing for Cassia and Ky in the last novel it felt refreshing to see what good ol Xander was doing.Ky was a pilot for The Rising (the rebels in the novel against Society...Did I forget to mention that?) but not THE PILOT who's in charge of the whole darn operation. It wasn't nearly as interesting reading about him unless it was with Indie (cool girl from the last novel). I almost thought he might ditch boring Cassia for Indie but alas. I hated Indie's ending though...But fortunately Ky had some interesting parts to his story. One twist did make the writing for him boring and sometimes unbearable but it was interesting to see how the other two responded to his situation.I don't even want to talk about Cassia anymore. She irritated me to no end.This book was actually a lot better than I'm making it out to be I promise. Xander's POV could have totally made a book all on it's own but Cassia and Ky still contribute to the different parts of the rebellion going on against Society.
    • 4/5
      A nice conclusion. Satisfying end to the trilogy.
    • 3/5
      Meh. The Rising has risen and it isn't exactly what everyone expected (surprise! (sarcasm)). This installment focuses on a plague and the way in which a bunch of idiot teenagers are able to successfully save the day despite a high-school level understanding of chemistry and biology. The ending fizzles out until there's just nothing. Very boring.
    • 4/5
      Love elements of the first re-emerged in this conclusion, yet also that the story ended at a believable point.
    • 2/5
      1.5 stars. The reason it took me so long to finish? It was just mind-numbing! Nothing happened throughout about three quarters of the book and anything of any importance felt like it was crammed in as an afterthought.

      Maybe I didn't appreciate it because I didn't enjoy it, but I don't appear to be the only disappointed reader.
    • 4/5
      Since this is the third and final book of the trilogy, I'm going to skip any form of summary and go straight to my thoughts on the series, and this book.

      Obviously, I was hooked after reading Matched, but only sort of. Mostly, I loved the book until I got to the final chapter. Then, I didn't know that it was meant to be a trilogy, but it really could have ended a chapter or two sooner. Despite how much I hated the end, I loved the bulk of the book enough to read Crossed.

      Crossed was awful. I'm sorry, but I felt like it was pointless. It lost the charm and wonder of the first book. There was a lot of walking and a lot of poems and a lot of longing, but not much substance. It was a lot of book to accomplish only two things. I almost didn't read the third book. I gave it two stars and I was being too nice. I was disappointed. Nothing in book 1 suggested a follow up like book 2.

      But when I start a series, I must finish it (unless it's a billon books long like Jacky Faber and Mister Monday, etc). So I read Reached. This book put us back into Society, where we were in the first book (I generally don't like it when books drastically change their setting, which added to my distaste of Crossed).

      Cons: Firstly, I don't think it was at all necessary to go into depth how viruses spread. One, because I think everyone already knows, and two, because even if they don't they get it enough to understand the magnitude of the situation. Not only was virology explained (needlessly), but it was explained, not once, not twice, but THRICE. And the analogy they used to help people along wasn't until the third explanation, and wasn't a good analogy anyway.

      This is basically one of my biggest issues through the whole series: So many words, most of it repeating things we already know, don't care about, or reprinting old poems. I'm a fan of efficiency. The length of the book felt stretched.

      Pros: I really feel like this third book captured the intrigue of the first book. What I like about dystopian books is reading about a society that is not my own. Learning about their customs, and their outliers. Book three showed us a society falling apart, yet we still learned so much about it's inner workings despite that.
      While others have wars and battles to overthrow their dystopian powers, it was more fitting in this society to use a virus. Makes sense. Do I think those characters should have been the most capable to fix everything? No, but they did and that's why the book's written about them. Everything that was introduced felt settled, even if I felt that some of those issues weren't pertinent to the story. :)

      All and all I gave it 4 stars for recapturing all that it lost in book two, which was so far above my expectations (I had heard bad things). It ended well, no loose ends (well...), I was moved, and I was happy for the characters.
    • 2/5
      I could barely finish, but I finished. I was never a big fan of this series, but the way the author incorporated poetry into her story-line and the over-all idea the series represents kept me coming back for each book. I just felt the book was too predictable and dragged out way to long. I gave every book in this series 2 stars because of the author's way with words. I'm just glad it's over.
    • 4/5
      Loved this final book, and Condie's lyrical writing style. Brava to Condie, for maintaining the interest level through 3 books--none of the three was weak, which is unusual with series. I liked the way things turned out for Cassia, Ky, and Xander. I liked the way the story was told from the three perspectives, chapter by chapter. Sometimes, however, the voices of Cassia and Xander sounded too similar and I'd get confused about who was speaking.
    • 3/5
      In short: Reached by Ally Condie is a satisfactory conclusion to a decent series.I loved Matched when it was released. The world building fascinated me and the writing was exquisite. Its sequel, Crossed, was when I fell out of love with the series. It was at this point that I became a bit frustrated with the lack of any interesting plot, as well as the lack of character development for the main players. Still, the writing was just as beautiful. Unfortunately, Reached is much the same as Crossed in that the plot is boring and even with Xander's point of view added into the mix, I never formed much of a connection with any of the characters. But I still appreciate Ally Condie's poetic writing.Just like with Matched and Crossed, Reached is a very slowly paced book. The slow pacing worked for me in Matched as I loved the time that was put into the amazing world building, but I began to lose my patience with it in Crossed in which the slow pacing was emphasized by a lack of anything particularly interesting going on in the plot. With Reached, it's much the same as with Crossed except instead of 350 pages, it's 500 pages long and all the more boring for it. There was a lot of medical jargon and info dumps that didn't really help matters. As readers, we expect and hope series finales to out with a bang. Unfortunately, very few scenes of significance and impact actually take place in Reached.One of the most important things with the last book in a series is that your questions get answered satisfactorily. In this way, Reached was a success, I suppose. Overall, Reached was a passable conclusion to a decent series that I had unfortunately fallen out of love with. I would recommend Reached to those who have read and liked Crossed as it had a similar feel and tone. Though I was disappointed that the series went out with more of a whimper instead of a bang, I am glad that I saw it through at least.
    • 3/5
      This is a series that started strong and had me enthralled from the first book. However, I felt overloaded by the poetry in this novel. It wasn't the poetic quotes I had a problem with, as I felt they were perfect within the story and a necessity to understand the world lacking in the arts, it was the constant inner monologues of the characters. Obviously a book written in first person is bound to have these inner monologues, but I felt that this book had more of what the person was feeling then actual story advancement. I was constantly waiting to know what will be happening. So in that aspect the storyline was great even through the ending. I just wanted more of the story and a little less poetic fluff.
    • 3/5
      With chapters alternating between Ky, Cassia and Xander, we finally learn the secrets of the Society and the Rising in the end of this trilogy. The Rising has been biding its' time and now, with the arrival of an illness in the various Society regions, finds an opening to come in as saviors. Cassia is still valued for her sorting abilities, Xander moves into a physic (doctor) role and Ky takes to the sky as a pilot. The three characters have evolved quite nicely, but fulfilling various destinies is hard, and things don't go smoothly at all. What started so uniquely in Matched wandered a bit to a long conclusion. That said, I'm glad I read all three, but think the saturation of this style of book may have lessened my overall enjoyment by the end.