The Elite- Kiera Cass

The Elite: written by Kiera Cass

Book Two of The Selection trilogy

WARNING: SPOILERS INCLUDED

If you've read the book already, then you may continue. But if you haven't read it yet, then you face a terrible terrible thing. Spoilers. If you're a brave soul who dares venture into uncharted territories, proceed with caution.

The Elite is basically a continuation of Book One: The Selection, by Kiera Cass. The Selection is down to 6 girls from the original handpicked 35: Marlee, Natalie, Celeste, Elise, Kris, and America. They automatically were made into Threes, whether or not they win. 

The story's plot is about how America deals with her relationships. She starts to see Maxon in a different light, one where she has to choose between him, and Aspen Leger. Aspen was trained and made into a palace guard, automatically a Two by caste standards. America faces the feelings she has worked hard to push away. 

America's feelings for Maxon grow deeper, (and vice versa) and from here, the reader can already make a guess that she is the girl he'll pick. I don't know for sure. America and Maxon then find out from Gregory Illea's forbidden books about Halloween and have a grand celebration. The Elite's families are invited and they all have one of the grandest (and the first) Halloween parties since the Fourth World War.

Though the day after, something happens and they are down to five. 

They have to face that what what one of their competitors did was appropriate of caning. They will never be the same, so a few weeks after the incident they were faced with the unavoidable task of organizing balls for the foreign allies of Illea, Germany and Italy.

The attacks from the Southern rebels get more desperate and brutal, taking more lives than ever before. They get more violent as the time for the choosing gets nearer, as the time for Maxon to choose his bride as the king and queen's eventual successors. The Southerners kill one of the Elite's sister. 

And just like that, four remain. The Northern rebels prove to be allies more than they are threats. They are after something more, something that goes deeper into the history of Illea. 

Americas unravels the truth about Gregory Illea, and secrets she would have never expected to exist. About their country, the world she didn't know to have existed, and Maxon.

It's all just a bomb of emotions and excitement waiting to be detonated.

photo credit: Mina18

website: theselection.wikia.com

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The Selection- Kiera Cass

The Selection: written by Kiera Cass. 
WARNING: SPOILERS INCLUDED


When I first encountered the book, it was at a usual place one goes to for bursts of inspiration, at the library. Of course, my friends have recommended this trilogy to me a lot of times. I could say that it has actually piqued my interest, but that's what happened when I was bored and looking for a good book to borrow.

When I first saw the book's cover I didn't know what to expect. I thought it was another boring old chicklit story, about love and corny stuff. But reading from America Singer's (the protagonist) point of view, I began to get indulged into the story's whole plot. Kiera has this way of transforming reality into something that could potentially happen. 

If you've read the book already, then you may continue. But if you haven't read it yet, then you face a terrible terrible thing. Spoilers. If you're a brave soul who dares venture into uncharted territories, proceed with caution.

The story takes place after the Fourth World War. China takes over the whole of America and makes it into the American State of China, one of its' colonies. America manages to gain independence back, but wasn't successful in gaining its previous wealth back.

Illea, a dystopian kingdom first ruled by Gregory Illea, the kingdom's first ruler. Many descendants later, King Clarkson and Queen Amberly Schreave's one and only son, Prince Maxon, was entering the legal marrying age. He had to find a wife and, being his father's successor, had to take the crown...eventually. Thus the Selection was created.

The Selection is an open opportunity to castes 2-5 to become Illea's next queen. 35 girls are handpicked out of thousands of eligible women (within reasonable age).
And (yep, you guessed it) America was one of the 35 women to be competing against each other for the prince's heart.

She was just in it for her family, not because of hr feelings towards the prince, but because this was an opportunity to send money to her family. (her mother, father, and siblings, Kota, Kenna, May and Gerad) She was together with Aspen Leger, a Six. But before she even knew that her name was going to be drawn, he unexpectedly ended their two-year secret relationship.

Her first encounter with the dreamy prince, *sigh* was on her first night at the palace, in Angeles. She accidentally (or intentionally, I'm not sure) kneed him in the groin.
Soon enough, after America made clear to him that her intentions weren't as he anticipated, they were close friends.

WARNING: IF YOU'VE ALREADY READ THE TRILOGY, PROCEED. BUT IF YOU HAVEN'T, I'M WARNING YOU THAT THIS CONTAINS A SPOILER FROM BOOK TWO: THE ELITE. 

Little did America know that Maxon would eventually fall for her, and she him. 

photo credit: MegggE

website: theselection.wikia.com

photo credit: Mina18

website: theselection.wikia.com

Did I pique your interest? Don't hesitate to read book one: The Selection by Kiera Cass to catch up on what you're missing out on.


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