Crossed - Condie

Status: page 308

Lots of interesting things have happened in the past couple of chapters. The book is almost to the end and I don't see them getting to the Rising or the farmers by the end. Hopefully we will get a decision by the end though.

I hate to say it but now with all the new stuff going around while Eli was asleep I have a sad prediction for this boy. I think Eli will die. His story isn't all that mixed up in the love anymore. Either that or in the end I just see him following wherever Ky goes. Sorry Eli.

Now for Indie. This little girl seems to be more than I first thought of her. She has been able to accuse Ky of being the Pilot and figure out Xander's secret. When she showed Ky the map she truly thought she was helping him, but instead he realized that he doesn't want to find the Rising. I kinda suspected she would have some kind of Society hardware on her. Xander's card though was a surprise. I was also relieved to read that she is in love with Xander. The one thing she could never have. Sadly though she did confirm my first thoughts on her as being a thief.

Even though Xander only made a brief appearance in the beginning he is still running around in the minds in this book. Personally I don't think Xander deserves Cassia. Yes, he let her go and chase down another boy, but his only act of fighting for her was giving her those blue tablets. Which almost killed her. Xander has not even told Cassia his secret yet, so if she goes to him it's luck. I have a feeling based on our new discovery that we might be meeting him again. Unknowingly Cassia might choose him instead of Ky.

Cassia wants the Rising, but she wanted Ky and stumbled upon it here. I hope she goes with Ky. The Rising is not what she thinks it is, Ky tells her. She has gone all this way since the sorting to find him and be with him again. I don't think Cassia is wrong either way about choosing, but her not know which one drives me crazy. We might as well not know what she is thinking, or she should just have let the Society choose for her. Maybe they were even breeding her to become a Pilot, but in the Society's control. I see her choosing Ky in the end. The only thing I see standing in the way is her grandfathers poems.

Ky has been through so much and all he wants is to return to the place where his father's people are and be in a place with Cassia and untouched by the Society. Ky has been beaten by the Society for far too long and doesn't want to fight it. He just wants it gone. Ky knows loosing Cassia to the Rising means loosing her to Xander as well. He loves her, but he won't go with her. Ky is willing to let Cassia go and know that they will always have their love and their poem.