I wanted to love this book. I always want to love the books I read but sometimes I just can’t. This was one of those times. This book was so one dimensional and lacked so much explanation. I felt like I was thrust into a world and given no explanation to why it was like this, or how it got to be this way and was just expected to accept it. The characters lacked development. Like if Cassia never found out she could be matched with Ky, I feel like she just would have accepted her place and match with Xander and her life would have carried on. I don’t like to compare books but in other dystopian books I’ve read at least the main character already has a distaste for the way the government runs things and how society functions. This girls only motive was “well I like this guy better than my true match so now I have to take down the government” ? And the love triangle was so anticlimactic. The two boys involved were so flat and their only difference was one was an accepted member of society and one was not. There was no good guy vs bad boy or anything that make me think Cassia would be better off with one rather than the other. There was no fight for her heart, no confusion of who to choose. It was like she hung out with Ky one time and boom she was in love. And when she tells her actual match this, Xander’s like kinda upset for a microsecond but then he’s fine. This just feels like a poorly done version of a few different dystopians I’ve read mashed together with some special pills thrown in.

I did look through reviews of book 2 and they look a bit more promising so I do plan to read that, but probably not anytime soon.