I also wished that she had just been honest with Maxon. What I didn’t like was how that became her central thought process I wished more time could have been spent with her feeling torn between two worlds, not two men who represented those worlds. That aspect of America’s conflict made sense to me. She clings to Aspen, despite the pain he caused her because he was part of her old world and she wasn’t sure she could fit into the new one. I understood it in the first book, where America is torn between the world of fives and sixes that she knows and the world of ones and Maxon.
I’m just going to come right out and say it, the love triangle was frustrating to me in The One. With that, let’s take a closer look at the conclusion to “The Selection Trilogy,” The One. I am going to try to keep this as spoiler-free as possible, but something that I don’t count as a spoiler may be one to you, so watch for that. If you haven’t read the other two books, there will be spoilers below.
Rebecca already reviewed the first two books in the series, so check out that review below! RELATED: The Selection and The Elite Book Review But there is political unrest (two different rebel forces are constantly attacking), the King is a harsh and unfeeling leader and America is torn between Maxon and her first love, Aspen (a six who broke her heart). She is entered into the Selection by her mother and catches the eye of the Prince, Maxon. This pool of 35 will be narrowed down to The Elite, and from that pool, the prince will choose his bride. When it comes time for the heir to the throne to marry, all eligible women who wish to may be entered into a drawing and one from each of the 35 provinces will be sent to compete for the heir’s hand in marriage in a competition called The Selection.
The country is divided up into caste systems, each caste having their own roles to play in society (ones being royalty and eights being laborers).
#A summary of the one by kiera cass series#
The series takes place in the land of Ilea, what the United States is called after the Fourth World War. RELATED: 15 Must-Read YA Dystopian Novels The knowledge that Cass based her story off of the Biblical story of Queen Esther also made me want to read and see what all the fuss was about. I picked up the series out of curiosity because it was described as “ The Hunger Games meets The Bachelor,” and I was intrigued. It’s Cass’ debut series, and for the most part, it fits beautifully into the YA Dystopian Novel Niche. The One is the final book in “The Selection Trilogy” by Kiera Cass, made up of The Selection, The Elite, and The One, with a follow-up series (Book One is The Heir, and it was released not long ago). You may be thinking that I had really mixed feelings about this book, and you would be correct. I’ll come back to that discussion in a bit. An alternate title for this review would be “YA Book Review: The One, or, That Time I Wished the Book I Was Reading Was More About the Political Intrigue in the Background and Less About the Characters,” but that was too long of a title to fit on the title block.
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