Article 5...not done yet.

I'm reading Article 5 by Kristen Simmons...great intro, as well as weaving in character backstory within the first chapter.

Woah. That was a lot of big words.

I'm not on my phone, I'm on my brand new, handy dandy computer, so I guess that does it for you. Hmm.


Happy Holidays!

Cam

Another YA utopia-gone-wrong!

Title: Matched (Matched Trilogy #1)
Author: Ally Condie
Publisher: Dutton Books
Pub. Year: 2010
Genre: Sci-Fi, YA Fiction

Rating: 5/5


“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.”(Thank you, www.matched-book.com!)

Ahhh! I LOVE UTOPIA/DYSTOPIA THEMED BOOKS!!! Yet another bestseller like Divergent and it's sequel Insurgent, Matched is a sci-fi YA thriller. Take a girl, Cassia Reyes, and a childhood buddy, Xander Carrow. Destined to be soul mates, but throw in one more mysterious pal. A GUY pal. Voila! Instant love triangle! And, for more action, mix in a corrupt government seeking the ideal city. Can Cassia trust the world she grew up in, or should she rebel against a perfect society?

Matched is the first in a trilogy, with the sequel being Crossed, and the third book,--which comes out in November--called Reached. For a hardcover copy, the cost is typically around $17 or $18, whereas the paperback is about seven or eight dollars. No matter what format you get, the book is worth every penny.


Happy Reading!
Cam.


P.S.: I forgot the author site!
www.matched-book.com

First REAL post, Divergent

Title: Divergent (Divergent Trilogy #1)
Author: Veronica Roth
Genre: Sci-Fi, Dystopian fiction
Published by: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins
Pub Year:2010

Rating: 5/5


“In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is—she can't have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.

During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles to determine who her friends really are—and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes infuriating boy fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers a growing conflict that threatens to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves… or it might destroy her.”(copy/pasted off Veronica Roth's webpage, www.veronicarothbooks.com--thanks!)


Call me unoriginal for putting her blurb up, but it would be better than mine...

ANYWAY.

This was a great Dystopian novel, in a marvelous city...coughChicagocough...and definetly had me glued to it. I loved the book so much, I actually had it taken away during class by my Social Studies teacher. Lmbo. I did get it back, and as soon as I did, I kept reading it! Tris is the perfect heroine, and Tobias...oh, Tobias...dreamy, strong, Tobias...*snaps out of daydream* isagreatheroaswell...:):):)

Hardcover: $11.42 US, at Barnes and Noble. May be priced higher in other countries or at other stores.
Paperback: $9.99 US, at Barnes and Noble. May be priced higher in other countries or at other stores.


AUTHOR SITE:
www.veronicarothbooks.blogspot.com


Happy Reading!
Cam