The guys who enter the selection are all flat characters that portray just the right characteristics Eadlyn needs to push forward her own character development. It is 20 years later, but that's no reason for them to have lots all the characteristics they had as teenagers. I also didn't like how much America and Maxon seemed to have changed. However, when comparing her to America, it was a breath of fresh air (she isn't likeable, but not as annoying as America). She does make some progress throughout the book, but it all felt rather forced. I really didn't like Eadlyn - I thought she was condescending, rude and extremely cocky.

Does this mean it is a wonderful book? Yes.

Instead of following a girl entering the selection, we follow the girl at the head of the game. The Selection books were always compared to 'the bachelor meets the Hunger Games' and clearly this holds up for The Heir too. and proving that finding her own happily ever after isn't as impossible as she's always thought. But as the competition begins, one entry may just capture Eadlyn's heart, showing her all the possibilities that lie in front of her. If it were up to her, she'd put off marriage for as long as possible.īut a princess's life is never entirely her own, and Eadlyn can't escape her very own Selection-no matter how fervently she protests.Įadlyn doesn't expect her story to end in romance. Eadlyn has always found their fairy-tale story romantic, but she has no interest in trying to repeat it. Twenty years ago, America Singer entered the Selection and won the heart of Prince Maxon-and they lived happily ever after. Princess Eadlyn has grown up hearing endless stories about how her mother and father met. And then The Heir came out and suddenly I have the opportunity to get down all my thoughts about it. I made a post with reason to read/not read the books, but I never really reviewed them, because everyone had seem to done that already.

The heir selection book