Matched by Ally Condie

Another dystopian, yet less violent, YA novel, Matched is a sure-fire success with teen readers.  It begins in the tradition of romantic Cinderella, happily-ever-after stories.  Girl is matched (by the experts who NEVER make mistakes) to her childhood best friend and neighbor (which NEVER happens)...NEVER is exactly right...everything now starts to go horribly wrong.  Cassia is our protagonist.  She's never had to question anything in her life, she's not SUPPOSED to question.  So when there's a glitch on her "match" data tape, and a second face that she KNOWS appears, she starts to wonder.  And when her grandfather tells her during their last private visit, before he dies on his designated death date, to wonder, to question, she fears this advice.  Until she reads the poem that her grandfather and grandmother had hidden away in her grandmother's compact mirror...then she begins questioning, and discovering the ugliness behind the "prescribed and safe" world in which she lives, for which there are consequences.  This is a page-turner!!!  And it feels like a sequel???