The Selection (The Selection, 1)

I been wanting to read this since I was in middle school or high school. I really liked it. There were some points where I almost gave up on it because it's not completely my style, but I am really happy I finished it and I am excited to finish the series!

Okay, I have contradicting feelings about this book so I will review it by parts.
First of all, as a dystopian book: I didn't like it very much. What I did enjoy was the history of the country, I thought it was very realistic. Also, as I once heard someone describe it in another review (I say "heard" because it was a video), you could say it was as if The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins was told from the Capitols point of view instead of someone f...read more

"𝑰𝒕'𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒑𝒊𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒑𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒃𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒘𝒆𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆." 𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕊𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕔𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 - Kɪᴇᴿᴀ Cᴀss ⭐ ( 8 / 10 ) I. Am. Ashamed. I do not understand why or how I loved this book as much as I did. It is literally a blend of the districts from Hunger Games, every love triangle ever made, and the Bachelor. Terrible and I loved it. Literally ran through all five..five? Books...read more

I finally caved and decided to read this book since it's always popping up as a best seller. My biggest issue with this book is the characters have no depth and the story is very light. The majority of the book is just dialogue and it feels like the most predictable things a woman would want a guy could to say. Every time Maxon says something sweet or doesn't look her way America is tearing up. Every time. I'm going to try the second book in the ...read more

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