Finally Finished!

My youngest daughter and I started reading this series in the fall of 2010. We have so enjoyed reading them, and I highly recommend the entire series to lovers of magic everywhere! There are 15 books in the series, so, with my Master's degree and other reading, it did take me some time to finish the entire series. Finally though, the story has reached a most satisfactory conclusion! I loved the wolves, the owls and all the characters throughout the series. At times I thought that Kathryn Lasky was wandering with the story, but she always managed to bring the story back to the main characters and refocus the attention. This series is so much more than meets the eye....

Matched

For those of you who enjoyed the Hunger Games, this is a great book. It isn't as violent in the real sense of the word, but it makes you think about the direction we are going and who really makes the choices in our lives, and more importantly who should be.

This is the story of a young girl. She lives in a future society that selects your "match" based on your genenic makeup to ensure citizens who are both smart and healthy. Sounds like a perfect society where they have eradicated disease right? But then why do all the older people all die on their 80th birthday? Why are the relics from the past civilization taken? And who gets to decide what works of art should be preserved or not?

Cassia's "match" turns out differently than she expects that it will, and this causes her to question everything she was raised to believe. Which would you choose - the society who tells you it only wants what is best for you, or the freedom to make your own choice? It's a great book.