Matched by Ally Condie

Snippet from goodreads:

Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe. So when Xander's face appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is her ideal mate... until she sees Ky Markham's face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black.

The Society tells her it's a glitch, a rare malfunction, and that she should focus on the happy life she's destined to lead with Xander. But Cassia can't stop thinking about Ky, and as they slowly fall in love, Cassia begins to doubt the Society's infallibility and is faced with an impossible choice: between Xander and Ky, between the only life she's known and a path that no one else has dared to follow. 

There's an internal struggle between loving Xander, Cassia's friend since childhood, who she is matched with, or Ky, a mysterious boy she never really noticed until his face flashed on the screen. Cassia has lived her whole life unknown to the outside world, she trusts the society to decide for her life. The society tells her that Ky was not suppose to be in matching pool; he is someone the society doesn't accept: an Aberration. Aberrations will never be matched. However, when Cassia starts to find out more about Ky, the more intrigued she is about him. He knows more about the society than he admits. The safe choice or the risky one. To stay in the protected bubble the society created or risk to find out about more about the Outer Provinces. Almost everything she does is under watch. Everything she does is analyzed. One mistake can impact her future, her job, her family.  

I thought this book had a similar background to some other books, such as Delirium by Lauren Oliver. The background that there's a society controlling the characters lives. Also similar to Delirium, the main character's point of view of the world changes drastically throughout the book. I find that many YA romance books now have the background of a futuristic society that takes away the freedom of the people, willingly or unwillingly. Personally, I thought the book was well written. Easy to understand, captured the emotions of the character, and how the characters felt about others. The change in the way Cassia thought about the society was obvious throughout the book. Maybe it's because it's the first book, I found that there was so much background information explained throughout, there wasn't a lot of high points in the novel where I can't put the book down until the scene's over.  (Personal preference, but not enough action happening for me). Overall, a good read I would keep reading out of curiosity. 3.5/5