Uh, that leaves a LOT of ground to cover. After nearly 400 pages, here is what I’m sure of:Ģ - Models, (you can also buy into this level when you become a rich enough Five, so assumedly the pop star is also a Two,) drafted soldiersĤ - Shopkeepers, farmers, factory workersĦ - Maids, kitchen staff, stablehands, day laborers Caste determines a person’s job, but again, in a weird, unnatural way. It’s a male primogeniture based on the families who supported the original Illéa, though women can move up through advantageous marriage and men can buy their way up. The caste system is extremely ill-defined. What more, this is practically all the world building we get. Besides being contradictory, all of this world building is delivered in a history lesson the girls receive ⅔ of the way through the book. THESE TWO STATEMENTS ARE COMPLETELY AT ODDS WITH EACH OTHER.Īhem, I apologize. She says this is because, “ said she had a fighter on her hands, so she named me after the country that fought so hard to keep this land together.” "he United States's reputation was so damaged, no one wanted to readopt that name." I’d like to reiterate that the main character’s name is America. It was bailed out of its debts by Gregory Illéa, so they made him absolute monarch and named the new country after him.
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The United States of America fell to the Chinese during the third World War, but then broke free during the fourth. And while I didn’t hate every second of the novel, it still wasn’t good.Īmerica Singer, (the names are almost all absurd and don’t seem to have any rhyme or reason in the established world building,) is a 16 - 18 year old girl in the kingdom of Illéa.
I was wary of The Selection, but I think I went in with an open mind. I'm telling you all this to let you know this was not a hate read. I still love the covers and the synopsis. But here we are two years later and the cover reveal for The One got me thinking. What's not to love? Then a certain review happened and some comments were made and the book was moved out of my TBR queue. I have a (not) secret love of dating and reality shows and I'm a dystopian junky.
The cover is a knock-out my favorite "pretty dress" cover ever.
I really wanted to read The Selection when it first came out. This is a rather infamous book and I feel I need to start with a disclaimer.
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