The Selection (The Selection, #1) in YA Fanatics

May 03, 2015 Just Another Nerdling rated it really liked it

Re-read: such a cute book! Old review below

Hmmm... I'm not entirely sure what it is I think about this book. I didn't adore it, but I didn't hate it... hence a 3 =p

So start with the good or the bad?

Lets start off with what I liked. I liked the way it was written. It was nice and easy to read, and written in a way that flowed with the storyline. The storyline itself was fine, and I enjoyed the idea of the author!
A lot of people say that they didn't like the names because of their strangeness, b Re-read: such a cute book! Old review below

Hmmm... I'm not entirely sure what it is I think about this book. I didn't adore it, but I didn't hate it... hence a 3 =p

So start with the good or the bad?

Lets start off with what I liked. I liked the way it was written. It was nice and easy to read, and written in a way that flowed with the storyline. The storyline itself was fine, and I enjoyed the idea of the author!
A lot of people say that they didn't like the names because of their strangeness, but that is one of the main reasons that I did like them. ^^
I enjoyed reading it for the most part, and am curious to know what happens next.

However, I felt that it was a bit... disappointing. /:
TO EVERYONE WHO LOVED THE BOOK I'M SORRY IT JUST WASN'T MY THING!
I picked this book up because I've been seeing it everywhere. A lot of booktubers and bloggers have been saying great things about it, so I thought I'd give it a try.
I think that my main problem is that I couldn't help comparing it to other books. The interviews with Gavril constantly brought me back to the interviews in The Hunger Games, the whole castle atmosphere, and America's family atmosphere kept making me think of Red Queen... Its like I was annoying myself while reading it.
Another thing I didn't like so much about it is that the characters were hard to become attached to, or seemed to superficial. Maxon seemed like a really cool guy some of the time, but other times, he just seemed too clueless about humans, and too typically 'stuck-in-a-castle-learning-about-military'-like. Aspen, although a main character since the beginning, just seemed to be.... there. I didn't feel like he had a very important role. America was one of the better characters, but she would quickly change from being herself, to being not-herself when the other Selected girls were around.
Lastly, the book kept referring to things happening outside the castle - the US in an agreement with China, the rebel attacks, and the different social levels of all the castes. I feel like these were too mentioned too briefly, and think that elaborating on these small factors could add some very interesting substance to the story.

Thats it for my part! ...more

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Feb 03, 2016 Aggie rated it really liked it

Shelves: romance

I read this book in 2015 spring, because so many people told me that this book is great. Weird thing - I liked it. First book funny and cute, so yeah, I liked it, even I hated America from start to the end. That little.... She is horrible.

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