Review of The Heir (The Selection #4) by Kiera Cass
The Heir is the fourth book in the series The Selection.
Twenty years after America won the Selection and married King Maxon, their daughter Eadlyn, now eighteen, is the first princess to hold a Selection. The reasons for holding it are entirely political and she agrees reluctantly with the condition that she does not have to marry any of the men if she does not wish to. And she fully intends to send them all home.
Princess Eadlyn's Selection gets off to an extremely rocky start and her parents get very flustered with her. She is forced to look within herself to see why she's behaving the way she is and what about her is so off-putting to the men in the Selection and the nation at large.
But there are some of the men who see something special in Eadlyn and sincerely want to win her hand. She finds herself developing affectionate feelings for several of them, completely against her will, and decides the Selection isn't so bad after all.
I was worried that this was going to be more of the same from the first three books, but it wasn't. It was very different, both in characters and situations. Eadlyn is very different from America, and her Selection proves to have its own trials that are wildly different from her father's.
As in the first three books, the characters were vibrant and I grew very fond of several of the young men very quickly, right along with Eadlyn. Ms. Cass's writing made Eadlyn's fondness for them understandable, and made me fond of them as well.
Eadlyn's growth as a character during the book was wonderful to witness. I liked her from the beginning, but I could see she was not a very personable character. She came to understand a lot about herself during the course of the book and I cheered for her as she grew into her role as a leader.
The plot was good and flowed well. It pulled me along, and I read the book in one night. It isn't a page-turning plot, rather that I loved the characters and wanted to see what happened to them next.
This was an excellent addition to the series and I give it:
Twenty years after America won the Selection and married King Maxon, their daughter Eadlyn, now eighteen, is the first princess to hold a Selection. The reasons for holding it are entirely political and she agrees reluctantly with the condition that she does not have to marry any of the men if she does not wish to. And she fully intends to send them all home.
Princess Eadlyn's Selection gets off to an extremely rocky start and her parents get very flustered with her. She is forced to look within herself to see why she's behaving the way she is and what about her is so off-putting to the men in the Selection and the nation at large.
But there are some of the men who see something special in Eadlyn and sincerely want to win her hand. She finds herself developing affectionate feelings for several of them, completely against her will, and decides the Selection isn't so bad after all.
I was worried that this was going to be more of the same from the first three books, but it wasn't. It was very different, both in characters and situations. Eadlyn is very different from America, and her Selection proves to have its own trials that are wildly different from her father's.
As in the first three books, the characters were vibrant and I grew very fond of several of the young men very quickly, right along with Eadlyn. Ms. Cass's writing made Eadlyn's fondness for them understandable, and made me fond of them as well.
Eadlyn's growth as a character during the book was wonderful to witness. I liked her from the beginning, but I could see she was not a very personable character. She came to understand a lot about herself during the course of the book and I cheered for her as she grew into her role as a leader.
The plot was good and flowed well. It pulled me along, and I read the book in one night. It isn't a page-turning plot, rather that I loved the characters and wanted to see what happened to them next.
This was an excellent addition to the series and I give it:
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