The Heir (The Selection, #4) in The Wide Web of Friends in YA Books

May 28, 2015 ❤ Eva ❤ rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. There is just something about Keira Cass' books that make them so addicting. Once I got into this book, I couldn't stop reading it even though it had some major flaws. 4/5 stars.

The first three books in the Selection series were great. I really loved them. America definitely had her problems but she didn't not make me nearly as furious as Eadlyn made me. Eadlyn was something else. She was a snob, a spoiled brat and an ungrateful bitch. Her parents were doing everything they could to save her cou There is just something about Keira Cass' books that make them so addicting. Once I got into this book, I couldn't stop reading it even though it had some major flaws. 4/5 stars.

The first three books in the Selection series were great. I really loved them. America definitely had her problems but she didn't not make me nearly as furious as Eadlyn made me. Eadlyn was something else. She was a snob, a spoiled brat and an ungrateful bitch. Her parents were doing everything they could to save her country. That included hosting a Selection. But no Eadlyn can't thaw out her nasty heart just a little bit to help out her parents. She was so opposed to finding someone to love and she was very independent. That may sound like a good thing, but in Eadlyn's case, it wasn't. She used the fact that she was going to be queen as an excuse for everything. However, she changed. By the middle of the book she was a little bit more tolerable and she was letting people in. In the end she has decided that she will find love in the Selection and that made me happy.

Kile was my favorite. He was very cute and sweet. I got tingles when he and Eadlyn kissed. I knew from the moment we met him that he was going to be in the Selection. I'm worried he and Eadlyn won't be together because Kile has dreams and he wants to get out of the palace. I'm hoping what he and Eadlyn eventually have is stronger than his desires to leave the palace. I sense a thing happening with Erik and I like it. Erik also seems like a wonderful guy and I'm curious to see where this thing goes. Ean intrigues me. He seemed like the cocky guy I would enjoy at first but that's not who he is at all. I really want to learn more about him. Henri is really cute but we know its not going to work out given that he barley knows English. Hale is boring to me and I doubt he will be the one Eadlyn falls in love with.

This book is very very addicting. I plowed through it in one day. I couldn't out it down and thats how it was with the other Selection books as well. Keira has trouble building good characters and also creating scenery. I almost could never picture Eadlyn's outfits and I had no idea what most of the boys looked like. All i remember is Henri's blonde curls and Ean's golden hair. I don't know what any of the other guys looked like. Everything was fuzzy to me.

We also get the bomb that America had a heart attack and thats how the book ends. I need to know more and thats how Kiera's books always leave you. You want to know more. I really enjoyed this book but it was not without flaws. Definitely looking forward to the next one. ...more

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Sep 10, 2014 Meghan rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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I adored the first three Selection books in The Selection series. I loved America and Maxon. When I had read The Selection series I was looking for something fun and romantic to read and that's exactly what I got in those first three books. Even the e-novels were fantastic! So when I picked up The Heir on the day it came out I was excited to yet again read something fun and romantic.

And that's exactly what I got in The Heir.

I loved Eadlyn! (when she wasn't being a brat) She reminded me a lot o ...more

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Sep 04, 2014 Diana added it

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Love the cover! I think this is my favorite dress for the whole series! AHHH CANT WAIT FOR IT TO COME OUT!!!!

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Dec 28, 2015 Sarah rated it liked it · review of another edition

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“There are some things you don't learn about yourself until you let someone else into the most intimate places of your heart.”

The Heir is the continuity of Kiera Cass’ The Selection series, and follows America and Maxon’s child as she goes through her own selection.

So... lots of thoughts about this.

I had liked the world that Cass had created in the previous books, however it was even better now that Maxon (heart eyes) ...more

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Sep 20, 2017 Teenage Reads rated it liked it

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America entered The Selection because her mother wanted her to. From her first night until the end it was a whirlwind affair as America fell in love with Prince Maxon. The whole town cheered with joy as a lonely Five married a One, in the wedding of the century. Yet not without a cost. After the rebels stormed the castle, killing the King and Queen, some of the remaining members of the Selection killed, and Maxon almost ending up with the wrong girl. Yes, where America and Maxon story was one fo America entered The Selection because her mother wanted her to. From her first night until the end it was a whirlwind affair as America fell in love with Prince Maxon. The whole town cheered with joy as a lonely Five married a One, in the wedding of the century. Yet not without a cost. After the rebels stormed the castle, killing the King and Queen, some of the remaining members of the Selection killed, and Maxon almost ending up with the wrong girl. Yes, where America and Maxon story was one for the story books, but what happens when those stories end? Taking place twenty years in the future, Maxon and America love is still strong, but expanded, and they threw off the caste and had multiple children instead of the traditional one. This story is not about them though, but their daughter, Eadlyn, who was preparing to take the throne from her father, and ready to run the kingdom, one high heel at a time.

Eadlyn Schreave, was the girl in power. Where the throne should have been giving to her twin brother Ahren, it was Eadlyn born seven minutes ahead of time the sealed her the crown. If it was years ago, that would not have mattered, but after her parents' (America and Maxon) became King and Queen, they see women as equals to male, thus giving their daughter the throne as she is their first child. After Eadlyn and Ahren, came the other two brothers, fourteen-year-old Kaden and ten-year-old Osten. Eadlyn had a good childhood, her parents giving her everything that she could have possibly wanted, but with the weight of the kingdom slowly growing on her as she age. Her brothers’ were spare the responsibility of the kingdom, as Osten and Kaden were still too young, and Ahren was so fully in love with Princess Camille of France, he was prepared to stay with her forever. With the caste system eliminated the people rejoice, so excited not to be defined by labels. Yet people still referred to them, still deny others of what they were in a past system. The weight of this unrest lies with Maxon, as current king, it is up to him to settle this unrest. Looking back people celebrated America’s and his wedding, then the birth of their children, with no agreement settle for his son and Camille yet, Maxon come up with the plan he never thought he had to do: A Selection. With the position of Queen already filled, the kingdom is looking for thirty-five suitors to woo the princess into marriage. Eadlyn was furious. Swore not to find love she makes a deal with her father saying the contest will only last three months, and may not end with a wedding, but will put on a good show until they, together, could figure out how to settle the kingdom. With the game in motion, Eadlyn has to come off flirty and excited, but not dimwitted, or too strong to make the people hate her even more. With only one shot at love, Eadlyn swears not to waste it, as she put these boys to the test, with witty lines like “This isn’t a game, gentlemen. This is my life”. She is hoping to find a husband within them after all.

Kiera Cass dazzled us with the love story of Maxon and America. Now fast forward, twenty years and watch their ungrateful daughter ascend the throne she has been promised. Cass led us, through three books from the point of view of America, this witty, sometime cold girl who in the end gave us the heartfelt wedding we were dreaming of. Now her daughter is the same, sort of witty and funny, but cold to the bone. But with what reason? America did not want to be at the castle, Maxon (to her) was not being honest, and his father totally hated her. Any of these could make a person grow cold, but what reason did Eadlyn have? Her rejection against the selection was called for: she was told that she was never going to go through that process, but was now going to be forced at age eighteen to find a husband out of a total of thirty-five men. The most irritating part was that Eadlyn did not know her parents story. Sure she knew they were in love, after all she caught her mother looking at Maxon in this passage: “She looked at him with absolute adoration as he stepped away with his camera” is that not true love or what? Still the gritty details of the actual selection were left uncovered by both America and Maxon’s side with their children. For Cass to write about this bratty child, who does not know everything we know about her parents, was a real big letdown in this story, and made you bang your head in frustration as if Eadlyn would just have known about certain events she would be less difficult in the current situation. With a shocker of an ending, Cass prepares us for the final instalment of The Selection, as after finishing the love story of America and Maxon, we will soon wrap up the love story of Eadlyn and… Who knows! ...more

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Dec 19, 2018 cindy ♡ rated it really liked it

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Picked this book up on a whim! I finished the original trilogy about two years ago and decided why not and finish it!

I read this book in two days and was glad to see it wasn't slow or hard to follow since it has been a long time since I read the last book. Kiera Cass's writing is fun to read.

Eadlyn is bit much in a sense that she constantly is telling herself that she is the most powerful and is trying to be strong almost too much to the point where it feels unnatural. Obviously she is very dif ...more

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Mar 20, 2018 Jolien rated it really liked it

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actual rating: 3.5 stars

At first, I wasn't really sure I wanted to read this book. I was happy with how the selection series ended and I heard pretty bad things about this book, but I was pleasantly surprised!
The thing I liked most about the selection series was how easy they were to read. I read all 3 in one weekend because they were so addicting. I'm really happy this one was as easy to read!

Eadlyn was as annoying and selfish as I had heard. She kind of made it harder to read this book at time ...more

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Dec 26, 2015 Bharvi rated it it was amazing

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AHHHHHHH.
I couldn't wait for this book. When I learned that it was out, I was jumping up and down like a little girl on Christmas.
And I was not disappointed, at all. In fact, I felt the complete opposite.
If you get a chance, read The Selection series. It is worth your while. :) ...more

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Sep 17, 2015 Emily rated it liked it

3.5
i just read the book, and...probably i'm going to do a review cooming soon. ...more

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Dec 02, 2014 BooksNerd14 rated it it was amazing

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nope nope nope I'm done *panic attack* I swear to god Kiera if you even think about doing what I think ur going to do then I'm completely done with you. I'm gone. don't you dare do it! ...more

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