PERFECT SELECTION FOR TEENS
Reviewed by Katelyn Harris (Aged 13) Meet Katelyn
America
Singer is not one of the rich girls. Her family barely has enough food to
survive,
but despite all this America is happy.
When
the form for the Selection comes out, America’s mother thinks of a brilliant
idea—enter America and all their problems could be solved. After all, why
shouldn’t her daughter be the one to win the prince’s heart and escape poverty for
a world full of glittering gowns, beautiful jewels and the world at her feet?
There
is one small problem with her plan: America doesn’t want to become royalty. She
doesn’t want to be the one who marries Prince Maxon. All America wants to do is
live the life she had been planning out. She wants to marry her secret love,
Aspen.
When
Aspen hears about the Selection he urges America should try out so she might
have a better life than what he can offer. America doesn’t want to but agrees to try out.
America’s mother is ecstatic when she discovers
that America is willing to try out for the Selection. She, like every other
mother with a daughter eligible for the Selection, takes her daughter to the
post office first thing, where they find everyone else has exactly the same
idea.
To
her utmost amazement and dismay, America is one of the lucky few chosen to enter
into the Selection, to move to the Palace and to meet, and perhaps, marry
Prince Maxon. America’s plans are ruined and she attempts to be eliminated from
the Selection as soon as she can, so she can be reunited with Aspen. But her
best laid plans are thwarted again and perhaps her life will be changed forever.
This
is a fabulous book which I really enjoyed. It’s perfect for a teenage audience.
If you’re a fan of reality TV and dystopian romance, then this is the book for
you. I tell all my friends about this book and how fantastic it is. I can’t
wait until the second book, ‘The Elite’, is released!
Kiera Cass was an awkward teenager when growing up
in the 1980s.
Kiera always wanted to perform but wasn't sure exactly what she wanted to do.
She tried all methods of performing from acting, to singing, to dancing, but
eventually realised it was her love of storytelling, not performing, which led
her to those pursuits. She began writing after a local tragedy in 2007, and she
self-published her first novel, The Siren, in 2009 when
she was pregnant with her son. The Selection was published in 2012 when she was
pregnant with her daughter.
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