And so, with the Selection, girls can sign up to compete for the prince’s heart in order to obtain a better caste for themselves and a better life for their families.Īmerica is actually in love with a 6, despite being a 5, named Aspen. It is possible to climb castes through marriage and so on, it’s still extremely difficult. These castes are numbered one through eight: one being the royal family, and eight being the poor. The kingdom of Illéa is a monarchal society divided into castes. That’s not the point of the book, so don’t get your hopes up. I’m going to tell you all right now, no, America does not ever attempt to dismantle the Selection for being a stupid and sexist idea.

In the Selection, we follow America Singer as she is coerced into participating in “The Selection”: a dating competition to win the heart of the prince and the country all on live television. The Selection can best be described as Project Runway meets The Bachelor meets The Hunger Games. Fair warning that this entire post hence for will be littered with spoilers, and if you want to laugh: here’s my live-tweeting about the books.

Each audiobook for the novels was about 7-8 hours long, nothing too daunting. If I had to physically read them I’m pretty sure I would have thrown them out a window. This took all in all about a week to complete, and I mostly consumed this as audiobooks. That includes five novels and some five novellas. I re-read (and for some, read for the first time) the entire Selection series by Kiera Cass. This was inspired by my re-read of the Hunger Games. I’ve had this idea for a while where I would re-read some books from my childhood (see: teenage years).

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