ByMarlida

I wanted to know what the Selection series was all about, so I eventually got the first short story in the series and started reading it just the other night. There’s been so much fuzz about this series on instagram, so I wanted to know if this was really something I would like.

My first impression was that this was a weird dystopian series, I mean, it’s like a dystopian “The Bachelor”. Thirty-four girls are picked to come to the castle and fight to become the princess. Everyone gets a make over so that there won’t be differences, and eventually are introduced to the prince himself. Who’s super shallow and seems like a jerk.

Now, we get to meet America, who’s probably be the girl he ends up with in the end, or at least she’s the one he’s going to fall in love with because that’s just pointed out during the 64 pages of this short story. And America is only a five, and the king wants his son to have at least a 2. So.. The Prince’s in trouble.

I don’t want to slaughter this series, because I was kind of tipped off by the whole idea, I guess that I will be reading this soon, but I won’t be stressing about it. I know there’s a lot of people who think that this series is amazing, and that it just blows their minds, so I’m going to read the series with an open mind when I get that far.

★☆☆☆☆

In Pandemonium we’re introduced to this mysterious character called Raven, we don’t know much about her, only that her name is Raven and that she’s a somewhat leader of the Invalids in the Wilds.

Raven becomes really important in Pandemonium, and we kind of understand Lena and Raven’s connection, that they’re sort of like sisters. And in this book, called Raven, we actually get to know more about her backstory. About why she eventually called Blue, Blue. Why she’s the way she is, why she came to the Wilds. Everything kind of seems clear when we read this book.

This book is also put in this position when Lena goes into the place where Julian is about to be killed, and she’s there to ultimately save Lena AND Julian. She and Tack, Raven’s girlfriend is working together to get Raven on the inside so that she can make sure that Lena gets out safe.