Matched

Don't go into this book expecting anything exciting. It does exactly what it says it's going to do. It's a dystopian, teenage love triangle. It's The Hunger Games without the violence. It's Twilight without the supernatural, the stalking, the Mary Sue... and everything else that's horrible about Twilight.

The writing is okay. If it were from one of my students, I'd probably give it a C+ or a B-. It's not bad, but it could be better. She has a major case of the telling, especially in the beginning. She expects that her readers know what's happening during the Match ceremony, she doesn't give many details about what's happening, and instead glosses over it.

She does get better as the story progresses, but it's never quite enough to make up for the lackluster beginning.