

America wholeheartedly disagrees with her mother and sister who proclaim her lovely and beautiful and gorgeous. We’ve got a Bella factor going here, too. We’ve read the blurb, we know she’s picked, why spend pages upon pages telling us that she’s not going to be picked? It’s a waste of text. America does not want to do this because 1) she’s in love with someone else (come on, that’s not a spoiler, you saw that coming!) and 2) she professes over and over again that they’re not going to pick her anyway because she’s not awesome enough. Our protagonists’s mother desperately wants her to sign up for the Selection process because it will help their family out of a tight situation (they are fives in a caste system including eight castes…with eight being the lowest), and will help feed the family for quite some time. Then, however, there’s nicely formed grammatically near-perfect sentences thrown in complete with a properly executed semi-colons… Teenagers who think in short, quick, choppy, grammatically crap sentences do not use semi-colons unless they’re typing out a crying emoticon. My husband brought up this point, when I was showing him some of what I was reading.and I’m paraphrasing here: It seems as though the writing was meant to emulate the short, quick thought process of a teenager. Despite that, it’s still a fairly quick read. Do I have to keep reading?” There are short, choppy sentences throughout the novel and a good many fragments that made reading through the story absolutely disjointed and torturous, to avoid this type of problems you can use this word changer – seo tools centre to enhance you writing skills. My initial thoughts on the book were, basically, “WOW, the writing is absolutely crap.” and “This is painfully obvious. There’s certain aspects of the America/Maxon relationship that are believable and I even felt that there was a bit of chemistry between them.


To live in the palace and compete for the heart of the gorgeous Prince Maxon.īut for America Singer, being Selected is a nightmare. To be swept up in a world of glittering gowns and priceless jewels. The opportunity to escape the life laid out for them since birth. Synopsis ( From Goodreads): For thirty-five girls, the Selection is the chance of a lifetime. Where’d I Get It: Advance copy – electronic – from the publisher Genre: Young Adult – Dystopian? Futuristic Something?
