The Selection by Kiera Cass Summary
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In a dystopian America where social class defines destiny, 35 girls compete for a prince's heart. With 11 million copies sold and a viral #BookTok revival decade after release, this Hunger-Games-meets-Bachelor phenomenon reveals what happens when love defies the system.
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A Royal Game of Hearts and Politics
In a world where your birth number determines your destiny, America Singer has accepted her life as a Five-a caste of artists who perform for the wealthy while often going to bed hungry. She's found happiness in secret midnight meetings with Aspen, a Six who works as a servant. Their forbidden romance blossoms in the shadows, with stolen kisses in her treehouse and carefully saved food exchanged like precious gifts. But when Prince Maxon announces "The Selection"-a Bachelor-style competition where 35 girls compete to become the future queen-America's world turns upside down. Aspen, wounded by pride and caste consciousness, ends their relationship just before America is improbably chosen as her province's representative. Now thrust into palace life, America must navigate glittering ballrooms, cutthroat competitors, and rebel attacks while her heart is pulled between the prince she's starting to understand and the boy from home she can't forget.
A Society Divided by Numbers
The Price of Love Across Dividing Lines
Behind the Crown: Maxon's Vulnerability
Finding Authenticity in a World of Appearances
The Melody of Revolution
A Future Hanging in the Balance
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