The Heir (The Selection, 4)

What. A. Bitch.
I’m sorry, but no. The main character, Eadlyn, is such a royal (literally) bitch that I didn’t give a dang about her in the entire story. Not once did she possess or show any redeeming qualities. Worst of all, there was no change in her haughty, superiority complex from the beginning to the end despite the countless times people told her she was pompous, selfish, rude, blunt, (insert a slew of other negative personality terms here.) In other words, she was an idiot on top of being a bitch.

Um… Know-it-all?
So… for some reason, the author wrote sections of the narrative in first person omniscient (aka the main character is telling the story, but they know what everyone else is thinking, too.) Um… about that. That doesn’t exist. People cannot know what others are thinking. They can guess, surely, but Eadlyn just knew what everyone was thinking around her (without having any clue as to how she could be such a colossal bitch). Thus, not only was this an issue with the narrative, but this also made Eadlyn seem like that much worse of a person. Just… stop already!

Predictable
*sigh* I wish I could say there was some mystery, that there is no way I could possibly figure out whom Eadlyn is going to pick in her selection, but… it is SO FREAKING OBVIOUS! I’m not naming names or numbers or anything, but the fact that Eadlyn can’t see that she treats certain members of the selected differently makes her even more stupid and incapable of self-reflection. I mean, COME ON ALREADY! I don’t even have to read the next book because I already know who she’s going to pick. *headdesk*

Speaking of Sequels
Um… why? Why did the book end where it did? That… was an absolutely horrid, abrupt, resolution/cliffhanger-less ending. It gave me no incentive to want to read the next book, nor did it answer any questions or anything. It just… was. It was an abrupt chop at the end of a scene like that’s all it takes to end a book for a sequel.

Read long ago, no review.

Eadlyn is incredibly irritating and whiny.
ugh. She better get her shit together in the next one.

eadlyn is quite insufferable

"𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒔𝒏'𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒊𝒍𝒚 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓. 𝑰𝒕'𝒔 𝒔𝒐 𝒎𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕." 𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕆𝕟𝕖 - Kɪᴇᴿᴀ Cᴀss ⭐ ( 4.5 / 10 ) IT'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN! I mean at this point we know what's going to happen. We know who is going to get picked and why do we know this? Because things start wrapping up. Literally all of the storylines, why America chooses eho she chooses, who the other option chooses what he chooses. What happened to her friends. Somebody gets caught, somebody gets shot. True love is tested. All that. I liked this one a little less than the first too because I feel like it was an unnecessary novel. A cash grab when everything could have been wrapped up in the last book. The book was still ok to me. We get to meet the villains and figure out if they are or are not villains. Then the story is wrapped and happily ever afters are had. I'm just not so into this one. Like yes, she pulled in a couple big moments but then I feel like she just added them for shock value and then it's not really touched on again. I don't know. This one just didn't hit like the last two for me. It's always those third books that lose their minds. Divergent, Hunger Games, Twilight. Albeit reversed FOR ME in the third one. Its my favorite. Beware the third book...or be pleasantly surprised! ℝ𝕠𝕪𝕒𝕝 ℝ𝕖𝕒𝕕𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝘑𝘢𝘺 𝘔𝘢𝘺 𝘖𝘶𝘵