This book was not on my January Line-Up because I wasn’t going to count it. I read the first two chapters in November and left it through the holidays. But, instead of wasting the reading time finishing if it wasn’t going to count, I reread the first chapters and finished this week making it book 2 of 52 for the year.
Crossed is book 2 in the Matched series by Ally Condie. It’s a dystoipan young adult book, of which there are MANY. Not as many as the paranomal/supernaural genre, but close. Book 2 is the classic post-escape (from a controlling perfect society) survival phase. In my opinion this is not a trilogy, but a meaty book chopped into three pieces for easier digestion and to fatten the bellies of the publishers. The story takes place over a short period of time and covers travel from one place to another, including finding food, defending themselves against enemies, forging relationships with each other and eventually having to trust each other to get to the desired destination. The reader knows almost nothing more than they did at the end of Book 1. A morsel here and there, but certainly not enough for a stand-alone second book. The final book will have to be crammed with information to tie up all the loose ends this one left. It was slightly entertaining, briefly touching but mostly just getting from point a to point b on the way to c.

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