Book Review: The Selection by Kiera Cass, Book #1

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.

Let's talk about one of my favourites series now! The Selection is the story of America Singer, a five, which lives on a dystopian worlds after the Fourth World War between China and USA, after the war the country was named Illéa and the people was divided by castes (NO IT'S NOT THG OR DIVERGENT) the castes goes from Eights (the most poor people), Sevens (manual laborers), Sixes (workers/servants), Fives (artists and performers), Four (businessmen), Threes (great minds), Twos (celebrities), One (the royal family). 

The Selection is a competition where 35 Daughters of Illéa are chosen to be the next princess and the next wife of Prince Maxon, America has boyfriend, he's a Six and she's a Five so it's forbidden for both of them to be together, America and Aspen are  in love, but he's stubborn about their future together, one day a card arrived to the Singer's house telling them that her daughter is a possibly candidate for The Selection, Aspen forces her to enter The Selection. America turns out to be one of the "lucky" 35 girls destined to win Prince's Maxon heart, and since the first moment her named was shown on that list of girls, her reality seems pretty far in all the senses.

The Selection made my heart ache on every single page, it's so amazing and beautifully written and I don't even have words to describe it. The Selection it's just amazing, the way America is and the way she acts, she's so cute because for her, castes never meant to much, and since the first time she's determined to be out of that silly competition for the heart of someone she didn't even love or want. But when she meets Prince Maxon... oh... my... God... She literally scream at him telling him she doesn't even liked him at all, but that's not the point. The point is this book is so awesome, it's really easy to read and understand and you really became fond in the characters, their personalities, the way all the 35 girls acted it's really well described, all the escenario and not that "Charming Prince" from fairy tales and the typical girls who falls in love... NO. Maxon really seems like a hurt person, his whole live have been on a palace without the opportunity of beign able in love, an America... all that she wants it's... well it's hard to explain. I mean, I love the way she is like kind of independient but broken and the fact that she doesn't even like Maxon make things even more interesting beacuse you're able to see the development of the thoughts of America about all that princess-living style (AND OF COURSE ABOUT MAXON!!!). So it's an excellent book, it has so much to give and you can't stop reading it!!!