Matched begins with Cassia Maria Reyes, a seventeen-year-old girl in the Society, attending her Match Banquet. Matched is the first novel in the series and was published November 30, 2010.

The Society has less control over the Outer Provinces, so the laws are more relaxed in these areas. These are referred to as the Outer Provinces, where the Society wars against an unknown force known as the Enemy. Oria is a well-off province, though as the provinces geographically move farther from the Capital City, Central, they become less developed. Mapletree Borough is part of Oria Province, a constituent to the Society. Good-standing citizens are eligible to be 'matched' when they are seventeen years old to their most compatible partner, who is predetermined by the Society.Ĭassia lives in Mapletree Borough, a neighborhood ornamented with its namesake (at the conclusion of the first book, the Society destroys the maple trees and renames it Garden Borough). In the first book, Cassia Reyes chooses hiking as her activity.

Free time is to be spent in an assortment of pre-determined wholesome activities.

Nutrition in the Society is controlled by nutrition specialists, who decide the proper content and portion of food citizens require to be their healthiest selves. The Society maintains tight control of all aspects of its citizens' lives, from the food they eat, to the way they spend their free time, to whom they are allowed to love. The second book, Crossed, was published in November 2011, and Reached, published November 2012, completed the trilogy.Ĭondie's Matched trilogy takes place in a futuristic, dystopian world in the present-day United States, known simply as the Society. Foreign rights were sold to 30 countries before publication. The Matched novel has been optioned to the Walt Disney Company for a film adaptation. This helped the novel reach a national audience. Previously working with a small, Utah-based publisher ( Deseret Book Co.), Condie took her manuscript to Penguin Random House, after being advised to do so from her director at Deseret Book. The novel Matched was published by Dutton Penguin in November 2010 and reached number three on the Children's Chapter Books bestseller list in January. The Society seems to be formed after an apocalyptical global warming event. The Matched trilogy is a young adult, dystopian fiction series written by American author Ally Condie, set in a centrally governed society. Print ( hardcover and paperback), audiobook, e-book

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