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A review by carriedoodledoo
The Selection by Kiera Cass
2.0
I imagine I liked it because of the same immature competitive impulse that drives the popularity of fashion voting apps and "The Bachelor". As YA literature this is so trope-filled as to be laughable. We got the hipster names for the characters, the squashed-together pan-cultural names for the countries, an arbitrary class system, a plucky girl from near the bottom of the heap, a post-apocalyptic political landscape, the bad bad girls, the sweet good girls, the paperdoll background contestants, and of COURSE--the two VERY hot, VERY nice boys to fight over afore-mentioned plucky girl.
A quick read with lots of drama. I groaned when the complication came because of COURSE it did, this is a trilogy! Stupid teenagers making stupid teenage decisions (I am NOT a big fan of original boyfriend), which makes me wonder why this government thought a very long, very expensive "selection" was the best method to marry off the Prince. But the answer is this simple : it's young adult fiction, of the best possible kind, that allows teenage girls to self-insert. End of story. So. I liked because of the stupid plot but it's just sooooooo not...good...that I can't give it more than two stars. Call it a guilty pleasure.
A quick read with lots of drama. I groaned when the complication came because of COURSE it did, this is a trilogy! Stupid teenagers making stupid teenage decisions (I am NOT a big fan of original boyfriend), which makes me wonder why this government thought a very long, very expensive "selection" was the best method to marry off the Prince. But the answer is this simple : it's young adult fiction, of the best possible kind, that allows teenage girls to self-insert. End of story. So. I liked because of the stupid plot but it's just sooooooo not...good...that I can't give it more than two stars. Call it a guilty pleasure.