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And In Bewteen the Lines
By Katy, Lauren, Aria, and Rya
The Selection Series
By Kiera Cass
The Selection
For thirty-five girls, the Selection is the chance of a lifetime. The opportunity to escape the life laid out for them since birth. To be swept up in a world of glittering gowns and priceless jewels. To live in a palace and compete for the heart of gorgeous Prince Maxon.
But for America Singer, being Selected is a nightmare. It means turning her back on her secret love with Aspen, who is a caste below her. Leaving her home to enter a fierce competition for a crown she doesn't want. Living in a palace that is constantly threatened by violent rebel attacks.
Then America meets Prince Maxon. Gradually, she starts to question all the plans she's made for herself--and realizes that the life she's always dreamed of may not compare to a future she never imagined.
The Elite
The Selection began with thirty-five girls.
Now with the group narrowed down to the six Elite, the competition to win Prince Maxon's heart is fiercer than ever—and America is still struggling to decide where her heart truly lies. Is it with Maxon, who could make her life a fairy tale? Or with her first love, Aspen?
America is desperate for more time. But the rest of the Elite know exactly what they want—and America's chance to choose is about to slip away.
The One
The time has come for one winner to be crowned.
When she was chosen to compete in the Selection, America never dreamed she would find herself anywhere close to the crown—or to Prince Maxon's heart. But as the end of the competition approaches, and the threats outside the palace walls grow more vicious, America realizes just how much she stands to lose—and how hard she'll have to fight for the future she wants.
The Heir
Twenty years ago, America Singer entered the Selection and won Prince Maxon’s heart. Now the time has come for Princess Eadlyn to hold a Selection of her own. Eadlyn doesn’t expect her Selection to be anything like her parents’ fairy-tale love story. But as the competition begins, she may discover that finding her own happily ever after isn’t as impossible as she always thought.
Novellas
Reviews
The Selection
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Lauren’s Review: 5 Stars
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This book is an amazing book, and it actually turned out to be less predictable that I expected. Some of the characters' decisions make you want to pull your hair out, but I think it will work out in the end.
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Aria’s Review: 5 stars
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I started off this book all like, “meh, whatever...”
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And then Maxon happened…
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And I read and read and read until my eyes started crying blood and I started a scoliosis epidemic among my friends (from reading in awkward positions, hunched over on the couch)... for a while there, my official nickname was, “princess couch potato”.
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Rya’s Review: 5 stars
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This book is AMAZING!!! Kiera Cass, the author, is the most amazing author in the world with the most amazing ideas. She has created a world in the future of America with a monarchy and this contest to win the prince’s heart and become the queen. America, the main character, enters this competition for her mother’s sake even though she is in love with a different boy in her province. This book is amazing for readers who love romance novels and adventure. My favorite part of this book wasn’t only the suspense of will America win the Selection (the selection is the competition), but the world the Kiera Cass has created. This world is the future of the USA and is described in detail to the reader. This was one of my favorite parts because the book wasn’t only focused on the main character and the competition, but the other events happening in the world which gave me, as the reader, as deeper understanding and love for the book. I also like all of the characters in the book especially the ones that weren’t eliminated before the second book. Marlee, America’s best friend, is everything a person would want in a friend. She is loyal, cunning, funny, and smart and makes America feel more at home in the palace because their is someone that she can call a friend going through everything with her. There is also the mean girl though, as there are in many girl related stories. Celeste, the mean girl, is one of a kind though. She is the rich, selfish, mean girl who wants Maxon for the crown, not for his love. She tries to sabotage others by inciting them, putting glue in their shampoo bottles, ruining their dresses so they will look like a fool in front of Maxon. This is my favorite series of books because of the world, the characters, and the plot, but mostly for the romance. It makes me feel like maybe, someday, I could have my own happily ever after.
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The Heir
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Lauren's Review: 4 stars
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Aria's Review: 3 stars
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The book was ok. I hated Eadlyn though. She was so stuck up and rude to everyone around her. I also wish that she finished her selection within the span of the book, because it seemed like an overall space filler, and now her selection will be drawn out through the next one or two books. The end was so frustrating when America got a heart attack! She can’t die!
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Rya's Review: 3 stars
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The Elite
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Lauren’s Review: 4.5 Stars
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I don't get how this book is so amazing. I thought from the start of the first book that I could predict the plot for all 3 books, but I was wrong. There are so many nerve wracking twists and turns and moments when you want to punch the main character for being so dumb. But wow.
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Rya’s Review: 4.5 stars
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The Elite is about the final 6 girls that have been chosen to stay after a huge rebel attack on the palace. At the end of the Selection, there was a huge rebel attack on the palace and Maxon decided that for the safety of the girls, that he was going to send all but the six girls that were his favorites home for their safety. The remaining girls were Marlee, Celeste, Kriss, Natalie, Elise, and America. Aspen has been chosen as a guard for the castle and when America saw him, all of the love she had felt for him in the past came rushing back to her. Aspen told her that he was still in love with her and that he only broke up with her because he was worried that he couldn’t provide for her. But now that he was a guard and in the two caste, he could provide for her if she chose him. In the Elite, America is faced with a split heart: she is falling in love with Maxon, but now that Aspen is back in her life and in the castle, she can’t deny the feelings that she felt for him back in the tree house in Carolina all those weeks ago. This book was slightly painful for me as the reader because I am team Maxon all the way and to see America with Aspen makes me want to jump in the book and scream that even though Maxon is acting distant, he is only acting distant because he is afraid of being rejected by America is she does not love him. Then SPOILER ALERT Marlee gets caught having an intimate moment with a palace guard and gets in trouble because of the Selection Contest rules. The rules state that the contestants of the Selection may only have a romantic relationship with Maxon and if they had a relationship with any other person, the prince could decide to kill them as a punishment. Marlee only gets canned because the information slipped out and Maxon has to show the country that he is the future ruler and that he will not stand being disobeyed. This makes America very angry because Marlee was her best friend and Maxon humiliated he in front of the whole country and made her an eight, the homeless. Maxon then starts noticing Kriss and hanging out with Kriss instead of Maxon. Kriss falls in love with Maxon and Maxon tells America that Kriss is his back-up in case America doesn’t want to marry him. Then, America catches Maxon having an intimate-like moment with Celeste and gets pissed and does something really stupid: she decides to on the public report tell everyone in the country that the castes are wrong and should be done with. This makes the King angry and he forces MAxon to send America home. Maxon is also really angry with America and almost sends her home. but at the last minute decides to let America stay. America, though, still has feelings for Aspen and, at the end of the book, doesn’t know who to choose, Maxon or Aspen? (Duh America, MAXON)
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The One
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Lauren’s Review: 5 stars
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This book and series nearly killed me emotionally so many times. There is so much more to this book than you get from just predicting the plot. I am very, very happy that this book ended the way it did. :):):)
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Aria’s Review: 5 stars
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This was by far my favorite! Team Maxon forever!
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Rya’s Review: 5 Stars
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Spoiler Alert!!!
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The One was/is my favorite book of all time. This is the perfect ending to America and Maxon’s story. At the end of the book, Maxon and America get married, but they had to overcome a lot of obstacles to get where they are at the end of the book. My favorite quote from this series is “True love is usually the most inconvenient kind” This is very true with America. She realizes through the book that she is just holding onto Aspen as a safety net in case Maxon doesn’t want to be with her in the end. This is unfair to Aspen, but I think that if Aspen hadn’t existed, that would have been a good move on the author;s side because he is a butt. He just gets in the way of America’s and Maxon’s true love for each other. America almost lost MAxon because he wouldn’t listen to her after he found her in the hallway talking to Aspen about how she’s not in love with him anymore. Maxon thought that America was in love and having an affair with Aspen and didn’t love him so he almost marries Kriss. He gets interrupted by the rebels breaking into the palace and stuff, but that’s not the point. The point is that Aspen serves no purpose but to give the reader a heart attack everytime he walks into any room that America is in because as the reader, you are worried for America’s safety and love for Maxon. I WAS REALLY AFRAID ONE TIME HE WAS GOING TO JUST RUIN HER LIFE. And he almost did. UGG!!! I had so many emotional times with this series, all the way to the very end with the suspense. The way that Kiera Cass made you think that you knew what was going to happen, but then changes everything at the very end made my heart skip several beats. This book is amazing and my favorite book of all time because of the story, the suspense, and especially the ending. Ahh the ending. On of my favorite quotes from all time is at the end of this book: “This isn’t happily ever after, it’s so much more than that.” This makes me feel like maybe, someday, I could have my own happily ever after like America.
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