A review by keruichun212
Crossed by Ally Condie

3.0

This was an easy read (I finished it in a couple of hours), so it was written well enough to keep me interested in the outcome and it moved smoothly enough, though sometimes shorter chapters threw me off as to who was speaking, but whatever. What I didn't enjoy about this book, or the previous book, for that matter, was the romance aspect of it. I mean, SPOILER: how could Indie fall in love with Xander without ever meeting him? That's not love, Ally, that's lust/wishful thinking. And how did Cassia fall in love with Ky? Such a profound, deep love that would get her to risk everything in order to find him again? And, while we're at it, there's a bit of a large plot hole where Cassia is not reclassified as Aberrant. Granted, there have been hints that the Society is cracking, but still. And...why do all these dystopian novels need to have a Rebellion that's possibly just as bad as the Society it's rebelling against? I yearn for stories like Star Wars. Where there's the bad guys, and the good guys. That all said, I am still curious how everything will end up. Though I'm gearing up for bitter disappointment (in order to up my chances of actually enjoying it.). To summarize: writing is fine, characters were not as interesting as the first book (with the exception of Vick, and Hunter), and the story was eh.