Matched - Review

It is very strange, for me to rant about maybe possibly the worst book ever (next to Disney books and BBC, of course - no, Twilight isn't that bad) on my first post. Maybe, just maybe, I made this blog because I wanted to say a million times about obvious things. But, I'll credit Helen - she is my inspiration for making this blog. Please take a look at: www.flipflyfall.blogspot.com! She's amazing.

Matched
Author: Ally Condie
Main Character(s): Cassia Reyes, Ky Markham
Book Summary: Cassia has always trusted the society's choices. And when her best friend appears on the Matching screen, she is sure that he is the one...until she sees another face flash for an instant before the screen goes black. Now she is faced with two impossible choices - Xander and Ky between the only life she's known and a path no one dares follow...between perfection and passion.
YA Bad Romance


I started out reading Matched, and 'Oh, this is okay' and 'At least no HG ripping off' was running through my mind. But, later, after slowly coursing through the book, I start getting annoyed with Ally Condie and eventually Cassia.
It's really typical - there's a teenager girl, she has to marry or date some guy her parents chose for her, but she likes some guy she's forbidden to meet. Things happen from there - the chosen guy is portrayed as the bad guy, the forbidden guy, however, is the hottest guy on the planet and is perfect in every single way except for the fact that her parents don't like him. They fight for 'love', whatever, end. They marry, have vampire children.
Matched is just that. It describes this troubled girl who's falling in love with Ky, the good-yet-forbidden. Xander is completely tossed to the side, and Ally Condie make the two have all these touching moments. Ky shows her how to write, touches her hand, holds her hand, touches her face, and makes you scream 'Kiss the darn girl already!'. The 'Society' is, as said, 'totalitarian goverment'. Perfect, yet, it's completely different from the current world. No sickness, people die on their 80th birthdays. All that.
The thing is, I hate these types of forbidden romances. They call it YA, while I think of it as the same level as those erotica novels you find in supermarkets. 
Most hated part - Xander, the supposingly good guy, is ignored. Throughout the book. Of course, he gets the single kiss with the girl, and then he's pushed away to the side. He deserves better - really, and he was her best friend?! Do not understand, at all. At all.
The writing is, well, kind of impressive - but the plot is too plain Jane and cliche. 


I've read a few people commenting on the next book in the series, and it's supposingly worse -  bad POV changing, sick writing.


Okay, and now I shall go shopping and forget about all of this.


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