I greatly enjoyed The Selection and I am slightly
heartbroken that I’ll have to wait until sometime in 2013 to read the sequel
The Elite! This was just a fantastic
dystopian romance. Now I had my qualms
when I read the description of this book.
I wondered if it would be the same old common girl turns princess story
that has been done time and time again.
But while The Selection lacked a unique storyline, Cass certainly
managed to make up for it’s humble plot by executing it flawlessly.
Cass’s characters were so perfect. Some of them were a bit cliché, but not in a
bad way at all. These more familiar
roles were always necessary to the plot, and I never got the sense that any of
them were thrown in for any reason other than that. Cass had a lot of characters, but with each
of them being so well constructed, no one was hard to remember. Every character from the panic stricken
ladies maid to the overbearing social climbing mother played a part in making
this Cinderella tale come to life.
Without any of them, it might not have come out the same.
It’s not every day that you find a writer capable of the
magic that Cass has shown in this novel.
If her other novels fail to impress I’ll be astounded. My only real fear is that she’ll sell so many
copies of this novel that she’ll retire young and we won’t get to see anymore
of her mastery.
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