Teenage Wastelands

I recently finished Matched, the popular dystopian novel by Allie Condie, and here are some brief thoughts. I was hooked from the very beginning - I pretty much can't resist the star-crossed lovers thing - and finished the novel in a day, but it was unnecessarily long. I found myself skimming at times and growing frustrated as I thought Condie needed to keep her plot tighter. Overall, an easy and satisfying read. It's in the RAS library - check it out!

 

 I just started Ernest Cline's Ready Player One, another novel set in a grimly imagined future. I love it! The writing is faster, tighter, funnier, and just so, so much better than Condie's prose. If you dig the '80s, video games, and/or good writing, you MUST read it! Also in the RAS library.