Author: Kiera Cass
Series: The Selection #1
Publisher: HarperTeen
Published: April 24, 2012
Pages: 327, Hardcover
For thirty-five girls, the Selection is the chance of a lifetime. The opportunity to escape the life laid out for them since birth. To be swept up in a world of glittering gowns and priceless jewels. To live in a palace and compete for the heart of gorgeous Prince Maxon.
But for America Singer, being Selected is a nightmare. It means turning her back on her secret love with Aspen, who is a caste below her. Leaving her home to enter a fierce competition for a crown she doesn't want. Living in a palace that is constantly threatened by violent rebel attacks.
Then America meets Prince Maxon. Gradually, she starts to question all the plans she's made for herself—and realizes that the life she's always dreamed of may not compare to a future she never imagined. -Goodreads
When I first read this description was like a month before it came out and I said to myself that I was definitely going to read it. Just look at the cover: it's stunning and beautiful and also the trailer made me want to read it.
America Singer is a 5 and 17 years old from the Carolina district whose a passionate redhead who is a singer and classical musician. She is very fierce and has a temper just like her mother. She has a secret boyfriend named Aspen and has been dating him for two years since her fifteenth birthday. They end their relationship on something I find completely stupid which was (spoiler, maybe) America made Aspen a pretty great dinner when they met up but he wanted to be the one to spoil her and didn't like her doing that so he broke up with her (spoil done!). Anyway when America turned in the form, of course she'd win and when she first gets there she sees lots of people changing looks wise like someone who was a blond can be turned into a brunette, but she stands her ground and make sure she doesn't look completely different, which I think is amazing and love it. When America and Maxon first meet, it was a bit of a disaster but eventually they became friends but soon they start to have feelings for each other. What I like about the two relationships of love for America is that Aspen's is more passionate and fierce while Maxon's love is light and sweet like puppy love which I think is cute.
Maxon Schreave is the Prince of Illea and is sweet and caring man whose 18. America had only seen him from the castle's TV show and thought he was a stiff and a snobbish man but she soon learned that he was more than that. He first met America when she has having a break down but he stayed calm and sweet. Maxon has a lot of ideas for Illea and cares for the country and its people. He is in a way extremely innocent because he had never been outside the palace and so he doesn't have any experiences with women but with the help of America that won't last long.
Aspen Leger is a 6 and is 19 years old from the Carolina district and is the oldest of seven so he has to take care of his siblings and mom. He believes he has to take care of all his loved ones. He was America's secret boyfriend when he cornered her on her fifteenth birthday. Aspen is also the reason America entered the Selection because he wanted her to take the chance. He loves America fiercely and doesn't let her go even when she's in the Selection. In the book, it doesn't end with him breaking up with America. Farther into the book he comes back into the story by becoming a palace guard because he was drafted. At the palace, he is determined to get America back even if it's against the rules and laws.
It only took like a day to read it and the love triangle in it is awesome~. The plot is something special and I really like it. I think a recent trend in Sci-Fi and Fantasy and things like that, a real trend is about the destruction of our government and I sorta like that.
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