Reached

Xander works in the Society's medical department while secretly serving the Rising. Cassia is a sorter in the capital, and Ky flies for the rebels. The Rising takes power by promising a cure for a plague, but the virus mutates. Ky gets sick. In a remote village, Xander and the scientist Oker learn the Society itself spread the disease. Oker dies before finishing the cure, Cassia spots the clue he left, and Xander completes it. Indie dies in a plane crash, and Cassia's father dies too. Cassia remembers that she was the one who entered Ky into the Matching Pool. The cure beats the plague. Xander ends up with Lei, and Cassia and Ky persuade Anna, the village leader, to run in the new election.

1. Behind the scenesThree voices

   Condie insisted on telling the finale through three alternating narrators: Cassia, Ky and, for the first time, Xander.

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2. Behind the scenesHalf a million out of the gate

   The first U.S. printing was 500,000 copies. The book reached No. 6 on USA Today's best-seller list in 2012.

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3. ReferenceThe poem that follows Cassia

   Dylan Thomas's Do not go gentle into that good night has driven Cassia since the first book. It runs through the whole trilogy all the way here.

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4. SetupWhat the red tablet erases

   The red tablet makes people forget. Watch for the memories Cassia is missing: one of them changes how you see a choice she made.

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