When rumors flew that protestors wanted to abolish the monarchy, I was literally all for it and thought that’s how the story might end. Where do I go from there? About 15% of the way through the novel, I began to fear that Eadlyn’s selection was not going to end with just one book. These are all character flaws, but with so few visible strengths to balance out her personality, reading from her perspective was often brutal. And that’s kind of the problem with the whole book – I kept waiting for Eadlyn to check her privilege and realize how fortunate she is, or to try and open up to some genuinely nice people, but as soon as she starts to feel anything remotely like affection for a guy that isn’t in her immediate family, she freaks out.
I’m just going to say it: 35 men is a lot to choose from. I don’t know why I thought that, but I did.Įadlyn (E-ad-lyn? Ay-da-lyn?) obviously has no desire to be in a Selection because she doesn’t feel ready for marriage. Now, this is a perfectly acceptable and expected response, but once it becomes clear that she had no choice, she still decides to be miserable about it. I read forth with some trepidation, hoping that these contradictions would become a central point of the story. In this series, servants tend to the needs of the royal family in excess, so it became clear to me, the reader, that nothing had truly changed. Still, she takes her duties incredibly seriously and reminds herself frequently that she is the most powerful person in the world. I’ll just say outright that she’s coldhearted and has no concept of her own privilege. I became pretty concerned during the first few pages when she wonders to herself why the removal of the caste system hasn’t solved the nation’s problems…and proceeds to be served tea by her personal maid. She’s the crown princess who doesn’t want to be the crown princess, and she starts the novel by stating as much.
#Right after the one by kiera cass how to#
I haven’t read for pleasure in about four months, so “fun” was exactly what I wanted, and I read this book in a matter of hours.īut there were a few things I didn’t take into account when I hastily clicked download in the Kindle Store–namely–Princess Eadlyn (suggestions for how to pronounce this are welcome). And a Selection competition from the Princess’s point of view could have been fun. It was supposed to be a trilogy, but when I saw what the fourth book was about, I thought it might be interesting to see how things have changed twenty years down the line from America and Maxon’s wedding, because there wasn’t enough time to solve the economic and social problems ravaging their country in the previous books. Only, tensions in the country are rising, so in order to raise morale, the King and Queen force their eldest daughter, and heir to the throne, into a Selection in which she must pick a husband out of 35 eligible bachelors.
Taking place about twenty years after the ending of The One, The Heir is about the daughter of monarchs America and Maxon, who is growing up in a country that has seen a lot of changes since we left it. Description: I would try to avoid spoilers, but the title of the book kind of beat me to it.
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