Also, as the future Queen, Eadlyn has “work” she has to do every day, but we never ever find out what queenly tasks she’s in charge of, or learning to do. Eadlyn… you’re really an insufferable case. Which she very well might have, seeing how stupid and arrogant she is. Unless Eadlyn’s been living under a rock her entire life. The Selections are broadcast on nationwide television - there’s got to be records of that footage.
Like, hello? Wouldn’t that be the first thing you asked about upon hearing you’re being forced into a Selection of your own? That is, if you haven’t snooped around long before that? It was strange. Something that I thought was odd was how Eadlyn didn’t know anything about her own parents’ Selection. Still… I whizzed through the book in one sitting, because, like I said before, these books are addicting. I vaguely remember some other random shenanigans like awkward television spots and a catastrophic parade, but I just felt so detached from everything.
Probably the best part of the book was the group date she went on, cooking dinner in the palace kitchen. The entire story was focused on Eadlyn’s marriage game (because that’s what this is), and even then most of the events and dates she went on were pretty lackluster. Moving past Eadlyn’s terrible personality… I felt like nothing happened in this book that matters to the plot (besides the Selection) in the long haul (at least the previous three books had a rebellion going on). But the few nice boys (aka the front-runners) were utter sweethearts! I’m rooting for Kile, Henri, and Erik! (I think it’ll come down to either Kile or Erik in the end - and Erik isn’t even in the Selection!) Although she failed miserably in the beginning at even trying to get to know the guys. Well, at least she began to make friends with a few of them. I did (GASP!) start to like Eadlyn a little bit once she relaxed and let herself open up to the idea of maybe, just maybe, falling in love with one (or some!) of the boys. Like, bitch, please, don’t you care about your brother’s happiness? Apparently not… She even tried to force her twin brother, Ahren (gosh, I loved Ahren!), to stay at home and dump the love of his life, just so she, Eadlyn, could keep him around and not have to miss him. She’s just a spoiled, self-centered little bitch who gets mad when she doesn’t get what she wants. Unhappy about this “chore” she’s being made to do, she acts unbelievably mean to the boys (but also pretty much everyone she comes across) who have been selected as her potential suitors - she even humiliates some of them publicly! She manipulates people and situations without a care in the world. Ruling a country is really taking its toll on him.Īnyway, Eadlyn’s parents basically force her into her own Selection, and pretty much twenty-four/seven she acts like the rudest, most selfish little brat possible. The Heir is about Princess Eadlyn’s Selection, which is only being held because the country is falling apart and the public needs a “distraction.” (Whoa, value your daughter much?) America seems like a cardboard cutout here (it was weird, she seemed really out of character), and Maxon is just someone’s tired, aging dad (but I still love him!). Because Eadlyn is a BIOTCH! At least America was just dense, Eadlyn is dense and dumb and bitchy. After reading The Heir, however, I think I prefer America Singer over Eadlyn Schreave.
Still, I gobbled up all the books like a bag of potato chips. They’re pure fun entertainment, and not even of the highest quality, and mostly make me super irritated at all the characters and the stupid choices they make. I have a love/hate relationship with these dystopian Bachelor/ Bachelorette-like books. (Put the word “so” in front of those three adjectives.) I knew very well going into The Heir that it would be just like The Selection, only with boys. Kiera Cass’s Selection books are frustrating, infuriating… and addicting. But as the competition begins, she may discover that finding her own happily ever after isn’t as impossible as she always thought. Eadlyn doesn’t expect her Selection to be anything like her parents’ fairy-tale love story. Now the time has come for Princess Eadlyn to hold a Selection of her own. Twenty years ago, America Singer entered the Selection and won Prince Maxon’s heart.
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