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Maxon is kind, and I am sure Aspen is kind too. Aspen is strong, and America did say she could feel Maxon' muscles underneath his suit. If you remove the whole Aspen-being-a-Six-and-Maxon-a-royal thing, there was actually nothing special about the two guys at all, they both love America, and they are willing to fight for her, and that's it. To be honest, I think he and Aspen, the other love interest, needs more distinct characterization. He was a really charming (pun intended) character, and there really was no bad qualities about him. Maxon is the prince, the one that America resented at the start but loved towards the end.
She was kind to almost everyone, and I think that's a really good quality, a likable one too, though I didn't particularly like her. But America was an admirable protagonist.Īmerica was a strong woman, not the fighting kind, like Tris from the Divergent Trilogy, but in the way that she stood her ground on things that didn't make sense and unfair. Well, I didn't take a particular liking to any of the characters in the book at all.
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(And Harry Potter can never be compared or replaced by another series :P) No worries, if you are not especially picky, this book will be a good light read. It was entertaining when reading, but when I tried to review the events happened in the book, I found how little plot development there was. Though I seemed to have some pretty big stuff to pick at, The Selection actually was a good read. Let me tell you, a book that has no climax is not okay with me. Yes, so no excitements or any action more than a few ladies running around in their dresses or robes. I think the intrusion from the revolutionaries were supposed to be the climax, but let me tell, they were hiding during that particular part. One more complaint, the plot twists, or may I say, the climax was seriously lacking. I know I did just say it was fast-paced, but I meant that in a sense that events followed very closely, but most of these events had little significance to the plot :P Actually, I just recalled all the big events that happened in the book, yup, that little, and there were not much progress on the plot lines except The Selection part, so you could actually guess how slow the plot development was for this book. And a little mystery from a friend America made during the Selection, which wasn't revealed in this book either.
We also had a love triangle but needless to say that was not resolved. We had a couple intrusion from the revolutionaries, but they actually never had any direct contact with our protagonist, so there were really no excitement from the sub-plot. We had the start of the Selection, and I thought at least by the end of this book the Selection would be over, but it was clear that it would be stretched to the next book, with only 6 girls left as The Elite. However, though many events happened throughout the book, if you looked at it in a big picture, nothing much actually happened. I wasn't a big romance fan but I must say the fast pace of the book really kept me reading, and I had an interest to learn more about the revolutionaries.
The premise sounded quite different from the usual dystopia novel, right? That's 'cause it is! To be honest, it was a little too similar to The Hunger Games at first but this one was more of a romance novel, with a sub-plot that featured, you guessed, revolutionaries that revolted against the royals that ruled the country. She was wrong, obviously, and she was picked, so within weeks America was flew off to the palace and began the competition with 34 girls to win the prince's heart. Since America had a secret lover in home, she refused to join, but after some persuasion from both her boyfriend and her family, she relented and joined, thinking she wouldn't even have a chance to be chosen within thousands of girls to be the one of the 35 competitors. The Selection was actually a competition of sorts held for the purpose of finding the prince, Maxon, a wife. America Singer was a Five, which meant that her family was poor, and when the chance of the Selection came, her mother urged to join so they could at least have the chance to finally step out of poverty. The Ones being royals and the Eights being the lowest. In this dystopia world, people were divided into eight castes.
But it lacked some intriguing plots, and though I found that I enjoyed the book, it wasn't all that outstanding compared to all the great books I've read this year. Sure, it was refreshing in all the Dystopia novels that somehow always include intense fighting scenes and being on the side of the revolutionaries. Not that The Selection was a bad book, but it wasn't a particularly good one.
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I actually didn't quite know how to write this review.
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