Nithya answers “Who do you like better? Aspen or Maxon? I...”

A Goodreads user asked this question about The Elite (The Selection, #2):

Who do you like better? Aspen or Maxon? I personally like Maxon a lot better.

Nithya Maxon really, really, REALLY gets on my nerves. Has no-one else realized he has zero clue about how to run a country?

He literally did not know people…moreMaxon really, really, REALLY gets on my nerves. Has no-one else realized he has zero clue about how to run a country?

He literally did not know people starved and that's more than half the population! He thought education was such a big step forward when people have nothing to eat and nothing to wear and no house and no nothing. How could you be raised to rule a country and not know that? Either he's extremely stupid or extremely ignorant. And maybe no-one else noticed the many (easily solvable) problems of Illea that still haven't been solved but I have. There are babies who are thrown onto the streets because they were illegitimately born, ie., through no fault of their own.

He didn't know about the violent Eights in certain provinces because: 'Aww, poor Maxon is an innocent little baby and we must protect him'. Well, Maxon may be kind and sweet but he would be a rotten king, and that's what matters. Frankly, I hate him.

Yours,
A Southern Rebel(less)

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