Like many other YA novels published between 20, The Selection is filled with all your classic tropes: the “she’s not like other girls”, “the mean popular girl who wears too much makeup and shows too much cleavage”, “the love triangle”, and more! 🤪 Depending on what you’re hoping to get out of this book, these cliches may or may not be for you. “True love is usually the most inconvenient kind.” (AKA it’s The Hunger Games meets The Bachelor) After entering the competition unwillingly after insistence from her mother and long-time secret boyfriend, Aspen Leger, America is uprooted from her happy mundane life and thrust into the royal spotlight. (Jan.Our protagonist, America Singer is a 17-year-old Five who is chosen to join 34 other girls to participate in the Selection, a competition to win the heart of Prince Maxon Schreave and become the princess of Illéa. Agent: Elana Roth Parker, Red Tree Literary.
Despite the story%E2%80%99s weaknesses, Cass seeds it with enough intrigue to keep readers curious about how this hopeless love affair will play out.
how do these girls have endless amounts of money to use in the human world? However, the sisterly bond between the sirens is touching, and Kahlen is sweet, if docile. The siren world is fascinating if somewhat underdeveloped%E2%80%94e.g. Kahlen and Akinli are playfully cute, but the chemistry is missing, and readers may question why Kahlen risks so much for a guy she barely knows. Since sirens can%E2%80%99t age, speak, or marry, their romance seems doomed. Kahlen detests her macabre work but finds some contentment with her siren sisters, until she unexpectedly falls in love with a guileless human, Akinli. After a shipwreck kills Kahlen%E2%80%99s parents, she is rescued from drowning by the sentient Ocean herself, but must serve for 100 years as a siren, using her beauty and otherworldly voice to lure humans to horrible deaths at sea. Faithful fans of the Selection series can dive into this Little Mermaid%E2%80%93esque story, originally self-published in 2009, but revised for its rerelease.
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