Where the heck's Xander? He shows up for like a minute, is mysterious and then leaves.
Condie's descriptions are beautiful and you can visualize easily the surroundings of The Carving and The Outer Provinces. They are a great addition to the series, especially Indie (you know I like strong female characters who don't put up with BS) and I know we will see more of them in the sequel. Along the way they pick up some friends and I liked these characters. (Full disclosure: I'm a budding Xander fan.) They are both in the Outer Provinces and then ultimately on the run, but for a great deal of the book they are apart, searching for each other. This technique helped me to like and understand Ky more. Here's what I liked: I liked (and disliked, see below) that Crossed was told from the perspectives of both Cassia and KY. Xander sadly watches the entire scene unfold, still harboring his love for Cassia despite her inherent idiocy, sorry, I mean tenacity.and Cassia's family is shipped off to do some farming for awhile and learn the errors of their rebellious ways. Cassia decides to somehow follow him no matter what the cost. When we last saw our protagonists, Ky was being hauled off to the Outer Provinces by The Society and to certain, eventual death. I liked Crossed, but it also frustrated me as well.
Well, I did learn more about some of those things. In my review of Matched, I was anxiously anticipating this sequel and was hoping to learn more about The Society, The Rising and Xander in particular (a promising character that I felt was underserved in Matched).
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