She is a strong female character and always puts others before herself so that they can live the best quality of life they can. She rebels against the palace rules as she has her own beliefs and won't have them changed just due to the position she has now been propelled into. America is from the caste of 5, a caste dedicated to musicians and artists, she is outcast from the rest of the group. America Singer reluctantly applies and is selected to take part and her life changes forever.Īmerica is a multi-dimensional character who is relatable to every teenage girl. “If I was going to go up in flames, it would be my own doing.As the prince of Illéa comes of age, the country selects 35 girls to take part in the Selection to try and win his heart. And I wanted to care, so, so bad.Īlso, I want to briefly mention there is absolutely no steam. Which makes it so hard when bad things happen because I just don’t care about them. Hell, I barely know them on the surface only. I don’t know who these people are, below the surface. I feel like important scenes were cut, or maybe trimmed, because it’s like I’m missing something. It’s just hard for me to picture Hollis doubting everything because of a guy she has barely even spoken to! It makes the second half of the book seem so unbelievable. They have one of the worst cases of insta-love I’ve seen. He had less than ten conversations with Hollis. I like him in theory, but I feel like I only know him that way. Especially the main one, which is really, really sad. This book is based on a love triangle, and I can honestly say I don’t care about either of the love interests. As for the rest, they were one-dimensional, if that.
We had a couple of other semi-deep characters: Valentina was fantastic and I wish she had a bigger role in the book (hopefully that will change in book two), and Delia Grace was really interesting. I enjoyed seeing this world from her perspective, and she was well rounded and had decent character development. Our main character, Hollis, is actually okay. She’s optimistic, hopeful, and free-spirited. The characters are where I take my greatest issue with this book. “Even in the night, you are still my sun, bringing light to my world.” Characters But with the rushed pace, and the issues with the characters (I’ll get into that next), it meant almost nothing to me. There was a scene that could have made me cry. Some small moments of normalcy between the life-altering events would have been great, so those huge events could have an impact. Things were happening so fast, that they seemed to lose meaning. Everything flew at me, and I never got a chance to process it before the next major event happened. The first half of the book was slower, as we get used to the characters and the world, but the second half flew by. I can’t decide if this book needed to be split into two books, or if it didn’t even have enough plot for one. “In the end, we made enemies with our heads, but we unmade them with our hearts.” PlotĪh, the plot. It was also used with negative connotations, discussing thieves and murderers. Many Romani consider this word a slur, and it really upset me to see it mentioned three separate times in the book. I do want to mention one other thing relating to the writing and setting: there are a few times where they use the world “G*ypsies”. To be honest, I’d struggle to tell you much about Coroa and Isolte to begin with, and what little I do know felt like small fun facts that had no impact on the characters who live there, or the plot. I have very little understanding of this world, beyond the two main countries that are discussed. I’m assuming there’s more than Coroa and Isolte, because people occasionally refer to kingdoms other than the two, but I can’t tell you anything about them. It served its purpose, and that was all.Īs for the setting- I guess it did that too? Except, barely. There’s nothing outstanding or impressive with it, yet nothing that bothered me.
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