The One by Kiera Cass

The One by Kiera Cass

Series: The Selection Book 3

Genre: YA Dystopian Romance

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This book was infuriating. America had made her choice, she had pushed Aspen away and focused on Maxon, but Maxon and America kept fighting about the same issue over and over again and refusing to declare their love. It was so repetitive and childish and annoying. This whole book was just cheesy and predictable, as the rest of this series, but everything caused a fight and everything caused doubts that shouldn’t be there.

Also, the emotional reactions of many of the characters were either far too powerful for such a small issue, or not enough for an important issue, and that bothered me. America would sob and cry at the tiniest little spat with Maxon, but she hardly reacted to various deaths.

However, if you ignore the cheesiness and lack of realistic emotions, this book was pretty good. Cass focused more on the conflict in society than the relationship, which I appreciated. Although, considering how important endings are too me, I didn’t think that Cass did the book justice. She could have done so much more with the plot and world she’d thought up, but instead she just ended it. It was as if all of the conflict was magically resolved as America slept, and she woke to find a beautiful husband and a recovering country.

This book could have been magnificent, and I did enjoy it, but there were more things that bothered me than things I enjoyed.

Two stars.