Reached

Condie, Allie. Reached. Book 3 of the Matched series. 2012. 512p. ISBN 9780525423669. Available at FIC CON on the library shelves.

When they abandoned the Society, Cassia, Indie, and Ky had different hopes. Cassia was looking for a way out and to reach the Rising, the rebel outfit planning to bring down the Society. Ky just wanted to be with Cassia and hoped to make a life for themselves outside of the Society. Reaching a rebel camp at the end of Crossed, they find themselves enrolled in the Rising.

Dispatched to Central, Cassia is told to continue working as a sorter but to look for variances in the patterns. The Rising is about to strike, and those variances will be the signal that it has begun. Ky and Indie are pilots, and are flying ships around the country. Meanwhile, Xander continues his work as an official, but he too is looking for the telltale signs that the Rising has begun.

When a plague is unleashed on the Society and more and more citizens fall victims to the debilitating disease, the Society can no longer hide that it is falling apart. Cassia reports the rise of the plague, while pilots begin to fly in the cure to the plague, as both were engineered by the Rising.

Unfortunately, the plague mutates, and suddenly the Rising itself is in trouble, unable to provide enough medicine for everyone. As people begin to die, people grumble that the Society would have taken better care of their citizens. Cassia, Ky, Indie, and Xander find themselves in the middle of a pandemic that threaten to completely eliminate human life. Can they work together to discover a cure before it is too late? Can the Rising survive the very plague it unleashed to topple the Society?