If you were hooked by how the Society assigns Cassia to Xander, then glitches her microcard with Ky’s face—and how even a single forbidden poem can change everything—you’ll love how Lena grows up believing love is a disease cured at eighteen, only to fall for Alex and start questioning every rule. Like the tablets and censored art in Matched, the authorities in Delirium scrub music and poetry from life, and the tension of a love that shouldn’t exist builds into the same kind of quiet rebellion that began when Cassia recited “Do not go gentle.”

If Cassia and Ky’s secret meetings, shared lines of poetry, and hikes beyond the Society’s approved scripts drew you in, you’ll be captivated by Amy and Elder’s bond aboard the ship Godspeed, where every choice is monitored and even emotions are chemically managed. The mystery of who woke Amy early echoes the microcard glitch that shows Ky’s face—small cracks in a system that claims to be perfect—while their growing connection challenges the ship’s suffocating rules the same way Cassia’s feelings do back home.

If Cassia’s journey from obedient sorter to someone who questions the Society’s rankings, tablets, and even her grandfather’s carefully hidden legacy resonated with you, Tally’s awakening will hit the same nerve. In Uglies, mandatory surgery promises a perfect life—much like the Society’s guaranteed ‘optimal’ Matches—but Tally’s friendship with Shay and a community living beyond the approved world force her to confront what’s lost when a system decides who you should be.

If you appreciated the intimate focus on Cassia—one girl, one family, one forbidden poem—then Jonas’s story will feel deeply familiar. Like Cassia’s Match Banquet and the Society’s careful sorting, Jonas’s Ceremony of Twelve assigns him a role that seems perfect, until memories of color, music, and pain reveal what the community has erased. The gentle, contemplative tone mirrors Matched’s slower burn, where a single decision—like choosing Ky’s name from the sorting screen—can unravel a whole world.

If living inside Cassia’s head—her first-person doubts about obeying the Society, protecting her family, and choosing Ky—kept you turning pages, Gaia’s voice will pull you in the same way. As a young midwife forced to deliver (‘advance’) babies to the Enclave, Gaia uncovers codes and corruption that echo the Society’s polished lies. Her choices—risking everything to save her parents and question the rules—carry the same personal stakes as Cassia slipping that illicit poem into her compact.