Imagine you live in a world that provides a completely secure life. But for that you have to bend up to the laws of the system: the people love that is meant for you. What would you do? risk for the true love of your life? For the 17-year-old Cassia today the most important day of her life: She learns who they will marry at 21. But the results surprised everyone: Xander, Cassias best friend, has been selected as their partner from the system. When, however, apparently due to a technical defect, the image of another boy at the ceremony presented Microchip turns up, Cassia is suspicious. The system can really decide who they should love? Cassia, the perfectness, the company never called into question. She need not have to worry about what they should wear what they get for a job and who they will marry. Because all these decisions for the company: who you marry, how many children you'll get, where you work, what you eat ... When she gets
opened on the evening of their mating banquets that their ideal partner is her best friend Xander, she can not believe it. When they want to see later, however, the microchip, which has received at the banquet, the photo of Xander disappears, and is a short moment replaced by one of Ky. A tiny error in the system, but it is only this one? If the company is perhaps not quite as perfect as Cassia always thought.
"Cassia & Ky" by Ally Condie was touted as the new "Hunger Games". I think you can compare the two books is difficult, since both have a completely different background. While Katniss in "The Tribute by Panem" is from the beginning set in the government hostile, it takes at Cassia a while before they worrying about whether the company might not yet quite as perfect as they always thought. In addition, the book is much less action realm, as "The Tribute of Panem," everything is proceeding more slowly and you learn Cassia and the world they live know for now.
Cassias world is for them and most of which they know perfectly. You have to worry about anything thought everything is decided by society. I could imagine such a thing is difficult, because not even in the few leisure hours, she added, she has a large selection what would make them. To select just want three things: games, listen to music and watch a performance. Each of their day is almost down to the last detail planned.
Cassia is a very likable protagonist and her initial naivete fades with time. She makes in the course of the book a fairly strong development through specifically in a positive way. But Ky is a very interesting person, the most interesting of all. I found it very exciting to learn by and by its history and thus how he has become the he is. By Xander I was hoping for something more, for he has gone between Cassia and Ky a little bit.
I thought that was a terrible idea was that everything was reduced to 100. Of all the hundreds besets were sorted out and the rest was destroyed by society. There is only the best 100 songs, the 100 best poems, the 100 best paintings, etc ...
"Cassia & , Ky "is a great book that shows us our world as it might eventually be in the future times. The book shows a seemingly perfect society, but if perfectness means that you can not own decisions may take more, then this world is really so perfect? In our age we are surrounded by democracies, countries where the population has rebelled against a dictatorship. In this book, however, one encounters an incredibly strong dictatorship in which the citizens themselves can not even decide who they love ...
to the book there is also a great website: http://www.cassiaundky.de/gesellschaft
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