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Condie's Matched trilogy takes place in a futuristic, dystopian world in the present-day United States, known simply as the Society. The Society maintains tight control of all aspects of its citizens' lives, from the food they eat, to the way they spend their free time, to whom they are allowed to love.
Close-ups of characters and other images accompany the text during these sequences. The graphics are in monochrome. 360 degree panoramic view of the gameworld is used on the streets and in building interiors. The characters react differently to the player depending on the gender chosen for the detective. [4]
Condie was inspired to write the novel after chaperoning a high school dance and considering what would happen if the government devised a perfect algorithm for matching people into romantic pairs. After its release, the book received largely positive reviews and reached The New York Times bestseller list in 2010. The novel explores young adult ...
The drastic changes in the main characters' personalities, and a perception in quality decline, earned the series negative reviews from long-time fans. A switch to trilogies gave even more negative reviews, before low sales forced the series to be cancelled in 2011. In 2013, Nancy Drew, Girl Detective was replaced with the Nancy Drew Diaries ...
After two novels and a separate short story collection, Katherine Heiny is back with “Games and Rituals,” a delightful bundle of offbeat dramedy fiction. Heiny grabs readers from the jump in ...
The first three books in the series—Imager, Imager's Challenge, and Imager's Intrigue—follow the main character Rhennthyl, a portrait painter who discovers that he is an imager, one who can visualize objects into existence. Chronologically, this first story arc opens in the year 743 A.L.,
Starring Haley Bennett as the real-life inheritor of a vineyard that she built into an empire, director Thomas Napper's biopic hits all the essential top notes.
Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (June 23, 1876 – March 11, 1944) was an American author, humorist, editor and columnist from Paducah, Kentucky, who relocated to New York in 1904, living there for the remainder of his life.