I thought that Matched's plot was a little slow. But, I had just bought another new book and read it right afterward and it was amazing. So, I may be biased. Although I am still going to give Matched a second chance by finishing the series. Anyway I will tell you about the book and if you feel differently about it leave a comment below.
Matched is about a seventeen year old girl named Cassia Reyes. The book takes place in the future in a seemingly Utopian society. In the society the government controls everything the citizens do. They control where they live, where they work, who and when they marry, and even when they die.
When a child turns seventeen they are matched with another child their age to be married to. Normally the person whom a child is matched with is from another area so they do not know each other. The kids receive a "microcard" on their matched and get a period of courtship before they can be married at twenty one. Also, years earlier the government thought that they world was to cluttered so they destroyed everything that had to do with culture except one hundred of everything.They government also made it so all of their citizens were equal. Food rations based on their age and gender. 
When it is Cassia's turn to be matched she finds out that her match is Xander Thomas Carrow, her best friend since she was young. Although she is a little upset at the fact they she already knows everything about him, she is exited that he is such a great guy.
After her work (sorting) one day she decides that she is going to look at Xander's micorcard. When she puts it into the port (a kind of computer that the government uses to watch the citizens) it stay blank for a second and then shows the face and name of another guy named Ky. He also lives near her but she hardly ever speaks to him.
She doesn't tell anyone but a government official, after she asked Cassia about the card. The government official says that she could also tell her grandfather. Because her grandfather is going to be eighty in a few days he will die. The government official claims that it was just a mistake that Cassia had Ky on her card because Ky cannot even be matched because of his parents. His parents did something bad so their shame goes onto their child.
Cassia begins to question everything she thought was right. Why should the government get to chooses everything about their lives? And when she starts to fall for the mysterious and attractive Ky instead of Xander it makes her decision between what is familiar and what is different and fun even harder.
