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Thoughts after "The Elite": Team Maxon or Team Aspen?
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other than that, not really

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Karla wrote: "I was scrolling through Tumblr and found this interview with Kiera Cass, and it brought some insight in regards to the love triangle and what she initally planned vs. what is going to happen.
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It's good to talk about this because after reading the entire Selection series up to this point, including the two novellas, I really needed to get my thoughts together. And I agree with you 100%, Karla.


And now I'm back with time to answer this question better than my first reply.
For starters, I like both Aspen and Maxon. They both have good hearts and I feel they both love America. At this point, I'll be okay with whomever America chooses because I feel they will take care of her in their own ways.
With that said, I will be lying if I didn't mention I'm really, really hoping she'll choose Maxon and vice versa.
I know Aspen loves America and always has an probably always will. I also understand that Aspen encouraged her to enter the Selection because he wanted what was best for her. However, I feel he didn't respect America enough to let her make her own decision. She loved him wholly and completely. She was more than ready to give up her present lifestyle if that meant she could be happy with Aspen. He didn't consider this or he considered it, but to put his mind at ease, he chose to let her go.
Because he chose to let her go, I think he should see his decision through. He was, more or less, prepared to live the rest of his life without her if that meant she would be happy and well taken cared of. Knowing she cares for Maxon and quite possibly loves him, he should do everything he can to make sure she's happy. He should be helping her win him, even though it hurts him because that's what he hoped for, America and a better life.
Now, Maxon. I see that he cares for and loves her. I see that he's trying to give her time to come to grips with what would be her new life and responsibilities. I understand that if America cannot show faith and trust in Maxon, he's forced to marry someone who will. I just hope--really, really hope--that he chooses America. At the end of Elite, America seems to choose Maxon and therefore will be fighting to show him she can do it. I just hope he doesn't crush her and choose Kriss. America has gone through a lot and has already suffered heartache and lost. I just hope Maxon doesn't make her go through that again because she was scared and didn't adjust fast enough for him.
I am scared and excited to read The One. I just caught up with this series and May is still far too long a wait. I feel for those of you who have been waiting over a year!


In the mean time, if America decides not to be with Maxon and refuses to be a Princess, he still needs to pick someone.
That's the life preserver I'm hanging on to in terms of Maxon & America. I really hope they come out on top.



And I think, too, that Maxon will find out about America an Aspen: big fight first but then, after a while, there will be a happy End for Mer&Max :-)

Also, it seems that a lot of people don't like Aspen bc of how he dumped her and then came back, so h..."
Good point!!! He says he loves her, but he is being selfish by the way he acts.

You summed up my feelings perfectly. If she would stop being selfish and make a choice and not doubt everyone, just UGH AMERICA SOMTIMES



Me too!



You are so right girlfriend I totally agree with you 100℅

Same. I will probably finish it the same day i get it, when i get caught up in a book, i practically inhale it. I just hope it's a good finale.


But now I don't like Maxon either.
The whole kissing Celeste thing was explained and justified but, really, just no. If you really love someone, like he supposedly loves America, you would be perfectly okay with NOT getting to kiss anyone else while they're confused. He's also using Celeste. And yes, she's doing the same to him, but that doesn't really justify going behind America's back and kissing another girl because he's too impatient and selfish to wait for her to sort things out. (Also, all of this stuff is pretty psychologically understandable considering the life Maxon's had, and doesn't make him a bad person. It just makes the book not romantic or sweet at all anymore.)
The Kriss thing was fine in my opinion because those were genuine feelings, all it means is that America isn't The only One for him like he says, which while it ruined their relationship for me, is not actually a character flaw or Maxon's fault or anything.
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