Matched

Whew. I think this will be the last dystopian trilogy I'll start for a while. I've read a lot. And this one is just as good. Matched, by Ally Condie, is the first in the trilogy and is about a government who controls everything. From the food people eat (it's delivered via ports and is nutritionally engineered for individuals) to the things people do in their spare time to the people they marry. Hence the name, Matched.

Here's a teaser: every person carries with them 3 pills. A green one, a blue one, and a red one. The blue one is life sustaining for a few days in case there is no food or water around. The green one is basically an anti-anxiety pill and can be taken up to once a week without the government caring. The red one is a mystery. No one knows what it does (until they are told to take it close to the end of the book!).

This book is well worth the read and I think almost on par with Divergent. And here's a cool thing that I've just found: many books have trailers on youtube. I didn't know that. So if you're a visual person, go to youtube and see if there's a book trailer (there's one for Matched). And then go get the book from the library and read it.