Skip to main content
PBS logo
 
 

Book Review of The Selection (Selection, Bk 1)

The Selection (Selection, Bk 1)
nastell avatar reviewed on + 49 more book reviews


The Selection = The Hunger Games meshed with Red Rising meets âThe Bachelorâ. There's a caste system (like Red Rising), but pretty much everyone is hungry, unless you're a One, Two, or Three. Each caste has a particular job set that they provide to the nation (kinda like Red Rising & Hunger Games), but generation or so, a lottery happens where eligible girls from the age of 16-20 enter their names into a pool (a la Hunger Games) to get picked to compete for the love of the prince with 35 other girls (and here's âThe Bachelorâ). Considering The Hunger Games and Red Rising are among my favorite series, and âThe Bachelorâ is (sadly) a guilty pleasure⦠I, of course, loved this book. #sorrynotsorry

Just like âThe Bachelorâ the girls compete for the prince's love on television, but they don't show the dates. It's more of a weekly recap that happens while the host interviews each girl and the prince. But the prince doesn't have a time limit on who quickly he needs to find his future bride. Mostly because she's going to be the next queen of the country so⦠no pressure!!!

But now America is torn between Maxon, the prince she thought she would never even like, and Aspen, her first love. Ugh! My heart can't take it!