The Heir (The Selection #4)
2015
- fiction
- contests
- marriage
- princesses
- social classes
- love
- juvenile fiction
- forced marriage
- courtship
- princes
The story
Twenty years ago, America Singer entered the Selection and won Prince Maxon's heart. Now the time has come for Princess Eadlyn to hold a Selection of her own. Eadlyn doesn't expect her Selection to be anything like her parents' fairy-tale love story ... but as the competition begins, she may discover that finding her own happily ever after isn't as impossible as she's always thought.
What it’s like
Warm, sunlit palace interiors rendered in pastel gowns, gilded corridors and rose-tinted gardens, the prose itself light, quick and chatty, with short chapters and plenty of dialogue that reads like a teenager's diary crossed with a royal etiquette lesson. The mood is bright, bubbly and mildly wry, a sweet escapist romance where sharp-tongued banter and jealous glances between a crowd of hopeful suitors keep things buoyant rather than tense. Its tone is low-stakes and comfortable, with a steady undercurrent of self-discovery as its heroine, initially prickly and certain of her cynicism, slowly softens toward the idea of love and of the people around her. Physical content stays chaste: a handful of kisses and longing looks, no sexual content. Violence is minimal and mostly offstage, with only a few tense moments of political unrest and rebel threat that come and go quickly. It suits a lazy weekend afternoon, a comfort reread, or a light read on a commute, and it will please readers who want fairy-tale courtship, romantic rivalry and a gentle, optimistic ending for a young adult audience.
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