The book I was reading for independent reading this quarter is called “The Selection” by Kiera Cass. The story happens in a futuristic society, a new country called Illéa that is separated by castes, (Cast 1 was the most important and cast 10 was not important at all). There is a teenage girl named America Singer that is caste 5 and she chooses music as her special talent, she goes with her mom to many events to perform and gets to sing in a place full of people. She has two younger siblings, May and Gerard. America’s family is struggling with their way of living. One day, The Selection is announced and the opportunity for America to join the 35 girls who will go to the Illèa palace (where prince Maxon lives),and try to become his new wife, will come.
At first, America does not want to sign up to be part of the selected girls to go to the palace because she has a boyfriend named Aspen, she loves him so much that she does not want to leave him but he convinces her to go. America goes to the royal palace to compete with 34 other girls to win Maxon’s love. At first, America is not interested in prince Maxon but after they meet and become real friends, it is different, she starts to fall in love with him and shows him her real personality. Maxon lets her stay in the palace for more time that she had to. America starts to think that Aspen was cheating on her, and she wants to avoid him every second but that did not turned out good because he gets to work as a soldier in the palace and changes to be caste 2. Many girls get out of the competition, some of them by choice of prince Maxon and others by one of the horrible attacks to the royal palace. The biggest problem in the story, is that America does not know who she loves, and who to stay with, prince Maxon or Aspen.
I think the book “The Selection” is a book worth reading because in this book, the main character, America, gets to think about her decision in many tough moments, that her last word, will change her life. This book helps you think about what happens when she decides something like that and what would happen if she had decided to choose a different path. The story tells about how you can make things possible to achieve, to make things and moments come true. The theme of the story is “Things that you would not have ever imagined, can come true”. For me, this is the theme of the story because I think that the author wrote great situations where you can think about this, where you can think of times in your life where you were surprised, for something you did not imagine would happen. For example, America never thought she would have entered the selection, she never thought she would fall in love with prince Maxon or even get to meet him. Those situations lead her to a new life. I would recommend this book to a person that likes romantic stories, that feels surprised about what happens in the story, that wants to keep reading the book until the end, that thinks about a different situation in the story than the one that it actually is.
Amazon kindle book: “The Selection”
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