anbar 's review for:

The Selection by Kiera Cass
3.0

Not my thing, but I'm giving it 3 instead of 2 because it's not actually bad. It's basically 'The Bachelor' with royalty--the prince of a future United States, now a monarchy after World War 3 with a caste system governing people's occupations and rank in society, has to choose his future wife from a group of 32 young women chosen from among the provinces; protagonist is a lower-caste girl chosen to be part of this Selection, and there's a forbidden secret love triangle--with a vague, as-yet-unexplained rebel movement in the background to give a soupcon of danger at convenient points and I guess try to make it reminiscent of the Hunger Games.
I hope in the next book the author gives more information about the exact who and why of the rebels, and why the country doesn't seem to teach or know much history, to give readers more depth and world-building instead of just the love triangle.
For parental advisory, there are a few instances of passionate kissing, but nothing steamy.