04/04/2016

Book Review: The Selection

Synopsis:
For thirty-five girls, the selection is the chance of a lifetime. A future in which the United States gave rise to the American State of China, and more recently Illéa, a young country with a society divided into castes, the competition that brings together women from sixteen to twenty years of all parties to decide who will marry the prince is the opportunity to escape from a reality imposed on them in the cradle. It is a chance to be scope for a world of possibilities reduced to a world of stunning dresses and valuable jewels. Living in a palace, win the heart of handsome prince Maxon and one day be queen.
For America Singer, however, an artist caste Five, to be among the Selected is a nightmare. It means leaving behind Aspen, the guy who really loves and is a caste below it. It means abandoning your family and your home to get into a fierce competition for a crown that she does not want, and live in a palace under the constant threat of insurgent attacks.
This was the vision of America to her personally meet the prince: Gracious, polite, funny and very, very charming, Maxon is not at all what you might expect. They form an alliance, and gradually America begins to reflect on all that had planned for herself - and realizes that the life of your dreams may be nothing compared to the future she had never dared imagine.