Matched
On her seventeenth birthday, Cassia meets her match. The Society dictates that he is her perfect partner for life, except he's not. In Cassia's society, Officials decide everything from who people must marry, how many children they will have, where they will work and even when they must die. But, as Cassia finds herself falling in love with another boy, she is determined to make some choices of her own. And that's when her whole world begins to unravel...
Teen Buckeye Book Award Nominee (2012), YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults (2011), Publishers Weekly's Best Children's Books of the Year for Fiction (2010)
About the Matched Series
Reading age: 12+ years
This series should be read in order.
In the Society, the Officials decide who you love, where you work, when you die. Cassia has always trusted their choices. It's hardly any price to pay for a long life, the perfect job, the ideal mate. So when her best friend appears on the Matching screen, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is the one...until she sees another face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black. Now Cassia is faced with impossible choices: between Xander and Ky, between the only life she's known and a path no one else has ever dared follow - between perfection and passion.