[Crossed]
I just finished Crossed which I had started at the end of last trimester.
This was an interesting sequel to Matched by Ally Condie and I have to say the main characters changed throughout the story a lot. Cassia Reyes, a teenage girl born into the Society was (in Matched) very obedient. But once her newfound love Ky and her old one Xander showed her a bit of what is wrong with the Society, and that it isn't perfect after all. Now Cassia is fighting for Ky because she wants to be with him forever, and can't do this within her society because they matched her with Xander, and it is either him or no one. She can't have that.
So to clarify on the change that we see throughout the book, Cassia was once obedient and loved the Society because it made her feel safe, but now she sees that feeling safe isn't worth having all your choices taken away from you, or made by someone else who thinks they know what is best for you. Ky also has changed from a passive boy, to one who is willing to fight for Cassia the love of his life. But one thing he cannot do for her, is join the Rising. This is a group of people that may or may not exist whom people believe are trying to overthrow the government from outside. Ky does not want to be part of it, an idea coming forth from his childhood and his parents' choices that he did not always approve of.
Cassia and Ky always thought that they were equal; the same; one. But now they are beginning to distance themselves from each other. It is all Cassia really wants (besides to be with Ky) to join the Rising. She is passionate after learning the evils of the world they live in and wants to do something about it; and when all Ky wants to do is leave everyone else the way they are so the two of them can be alone and happy, she takes it as pure selfishness and is infuriated that he wants to leave people behind. Some, literally, to die.
