It means turning her back on her secret love with Aspen, who is a caste below her. To live in a palace and compete for the heart of gorgeous Prince Maxon.īut for America Singer, being Selected is a nightmare. To be swept up in a world of glittering gowns and priceless jewels. The opportunity to escape the life laid out for them since birth. Here’s the Amazon description of the story line:įor thirty-five girls, the Selection is the chance of a lifetime. While I considered looking at the current volume ( The Crown), which is also a big best seller, I thought it a good idea to examine the first book’s first page. One reviewer calls Cass’s series “Reality TV meets dystopian fairy tale.” And another describes it as a cross between The Hunger Games and The Bachelor (TV show) but without the blood and guts. Kiera Cass’s The Selection is listed under the Sci-Fi/Fantasy genre, but is more accurately slotted in the Dystopian subgenre for teens. This week, I grabbed a Young Adult title that’s gone ballistic, launching a series that has teens drooling for more. Each week, we’ve been taking a look at the first page of best-selling novels of various genres and seeing how they measure up to my first-page checklist.
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