![]() ![]() Condie peels back layer after dystopic layer at breakneck speed, Dylan Thomas reverberating throughout. She begins to want the forbidden: to run outdoors, to write words with her fingers instead of manipulating them on a screen, to read poetry beyond the sanctioned Hundred Poems-and she wants Ky, who feels the same. This unheard-of glitch, along with an outlawed gift from her grandfather, sows doubt in Cassia’s mind. It’s Ky, their friend who’s an Aberration, prohibited from Matching. ![]() ![]() But when Cassia slides Xander’s microcard into her port to learn his data (a system designed for the more typical Match to a stranger), Xander’s face on the portscreen dissolves-and another face appears. In a tranquil future with clean streets and no illness, Cassia excitedly anticipates learning who will be her government-dictated marriage Match. ![]()
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