
Additionally, the novel's desert canyon setting was inspired by her childhood experiences of growing up in southern Utah. While Cassia is important and still the main character, she considers Crossed Ky's book.

Reception to the novel was mixed to positive and the novel reached The New York Times bestseller's list for children's chapter books.Īccording to Condie, she decided right away that the novel needed to be told from the perspectives of Ky and Cassia. The plot follows Cassia and Ky's respective journeys to find each other again in the outer provinces as they begin to learn of a growing rebellion against the Society. Told in the alternating perspectives of Cassia and Ky, the novel is largely set in a desert canyon which was inspired by Condie's experience growing up in southern Utah.


It is the sequel to Matched and the second book in the Matched trilogy, which concludes with Reached.
